Feds say they received’t decriminalize any drugs except marijuana, no matter calls from towns


OTTAWA— The federal authorities says it'll not recollect decriminalizing drugs beyond marijuana, despite calls from Canada’s most important towns to bear in mind the degree.

As the opioid epidemic washes over the country, Montreal and Toronto are echoing Vancouver and urging the federal government to deal with drug use as a public health problem, in preference to a crook one.

Montreal’s public health branch has simply thrown its support in the back of a file released these days by Toronto’s board of fitness which urges the federal authorities to decriminalize all capsules.