Decriminalization: A Hot Topic w/ Dr. Barbara Fornssler and Kayla Demong.

Published: Feb. 8, 2023, 2 p.m.

"You aren't decriminalizing substances you're decriminalizing human beings so they dont have to rot in a jail cell for displaying symptoms of thier disorder."

Dr. Fornnsler is the Knowledge Translation Manager for the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse.

'When people say they benifited from their time in jail, what they benifited from waws stablization. And we can do that without jail."

You wont want to miss this one friends as Prairie Harm Reduction Executive Director Kayla Demong will also be joining us to help us understand where the push for a safer way really stands this week right here, on Hard Knox Talks.

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