Politics Briefing: B.C.'s growing pains in decriminalizing drugs offer lessons for other provinces: Eby

Hello, B.C. Premier David Eby, whose government has announced a major policy reversal of its drug decriminalization pilot project, said he hopes other jurisdictions will learn from his province's mistakes. While he maintains that addiction should be treated as a health issue and not as criminal, there needs to be limits on public consumption of illicit drugs. "There are important lessons to be learned about where we are today that don't need to be repeated in other places," Eby told reporters at an unrelated news conference today in Langley, B.C. "It's very clear that the public drug use that we're…