Premier David Eby started to dial back on the experiment in 2024, but the free-for-all continued in public places. “So we diminished our opportunity to help compel and guide people towards the help they actually need,” she laments. Elenore’s frustrated by the government’s failure to clearly explain what it learned during the province’s drug decriminalization pilot. “I’ve been impressed with their tolerance and willingness to support the community,” Elenore responds, but they lost millions of dollars trying to revitalize that community, and smaller businesses can’t make that kind of community investment. I do feel that, as misguided as this government has been, they would like to take a new course,” Elenore says.
