The government of Canada has licensed the company Adastra Labs to manufacture and distribute cocaine in an effort to improve the safety conditions of drug addicts in the country.
Adastra Labs, a cannabis processing company, announced Thursday that it has received approval from the country’s health authority to supply drugs and controlled substances, allowing it to process up to 250 grams of cocaine and import coca leaves for the production and synthesis. the substance.
“Harm reduction is a central and extremely important issue, and we continue to be at the forefront of drug regulation in all areas”Adastra Labs executive director Michael Forbes said in a statement from the company.
Opposition to Justin Trudeau’s government criticized the move, pointing out that cocaine “isn’t safe,” according to the public channel Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
“Cocaine is not prescribed, it is not safe and this is wrong (…). Marketing cocaine as a business opportunity is equivalent to legalizing cocaine trafficking, period”said Kevin Falcon, a Liberal party member from the province of British Columbia.
More than 11,000 people have died from overdoses of illegal substances since British Columbia, in western Canada, declared a public health emergency in 2016.
Deaths skyrocketed as fentanyl, an opioid, became the dominant illicit drug.
Source: DN
