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Drug legalization

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Drug legalization 

Many people are talking about the drug legalization and how you can carry 2.5g of hard drugs. Especially living in Vancouver, British Colombia this concerns me as they were the first province to decriminalize certain illegal drugs. The government considers this a “little step” for drug overdose prevention, this means that government provides “safe” drugs to stop lacing. “Anyone aged 18 and older can now legally possess a combined 2.5 grams of illicit substances, including cocaine, opioids such as heroin, methamphetamine and ecstasy (or MDMA).” Personally I feel like 18 is too young to be able to carry those hard drugs, once you are more of age like in your late 20’s maybe you could be more mature and be able to think properly.

“The legislature’s health and human services committee held a one-day hearing in the state capital of Concord on bill 1298, which would authorize the formation of a committee of experts to study the effects that legalization would have.” This is a good step forward with this; this means that they could see the effects of the legalizations and change things when the effects are shown. George Bush has tried to launch a $9.3-billion anti-drug program, and quote “cocaine is our most serious problem today.” “Substance use is a public health issue, not a criminal one,” said Sheila Malcolmson, B.C.’s minister of Mental Health and Addictions, this means that they are trying to help people to break the stigma that stops people from going to emergency services. Some supporters say that the 2.5g limit is too small for what people currently use, especially for those who buy in bulk to save on money. 

Over all the drug legalization could end up good or bad, depending on how the public react and respond to the new laws.

 

 

Citations 

–One Canadian province has decriminalised drugs. (2023, February 25). The Economist, NA. https://link-gale-com.bc.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/A738286287/GPS?u=43dcbs&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=5fdf8368 

–Corelli, Rae. “A new war of words: drug legalization is winning converts.” Maclean’s, vol. 103, no. 4, 22 Jan. 1990, pp. 39+. Gale In Context: Canada, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A8116280/GPS?u=43dcbs&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=692cc6e6. Accessed 5 Apr. 2023. 

–Duong, Diana. “British Columbia trials drug decriminalization.” CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 21 Feb. 2023, p. E281. Gale In Context: Science, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A737366503/GPS?u=43dcbs&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=3202e1b0. Accessed 5 Apr. 2023. 

Break The Fake – Ryan Reynolds Wining the People’s Icon Award (Read to the end)

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Before you start, make sure you read to the end (there is a weird gap that I can’t get rid of, sorry)

A. Include a short summary of what the article, video, tweet, etc. was about or what it was claiming.

  1.  I found a tweet about Ryan Reynolds winning the People’s Icon Award. It has a nicely edited photo of Ryan and the title “People’s Icon” so I’m questioning if this is true. I know he deserves it but I want to check if this is in fact true or not before I start celebrating!

B. The steps you took to verify the information, including screen shots of the webpages you used.

2. So the first thing I went to was the creator of the tweet, “Kennedy Ryan Reynolds Fan“. Once I checked the account I noticed that the account did not have a blue verification mark.

3. Next I searched on google “Ryan Reynolds winning icon award hoax” and the sources that I see on the page are valid. (NBC New York)(Top Screenshot). I am going to cross check it by searching “Is The 2022 People’s Choice Awards at Barker Hangar?” because that is what the NBC website said. The result was Wikipedia (Bottom Screenshot) stating that the 48th ceremony is indeed at Barker Hanger.

 

 

 

4. I referred to the man himself, Ryan Reynolds (twitter). Seeing as how he “retweeted” how he was as shocked as everyone else (underlined in red). I confidently say Ryan Reynold Winning the People’s Icon Award is true. Also seeing that “Maximum Effort” has a blue checkmark is relieving!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C. Your judgment call: was it True or False?

5. In conclusion, Ryan Reynolds did win the Award, so its True! With photos of him on TV it makes it more believable, Him personally tweeting about it is conformation, Congrats Ryan!