Is It "Colonial" to Throw Up All Over the Sidewalk?

Something tells me that she needs to be sealed into a room with a junkie for further edification:

Just as B.C. officially acknowledges that decriminalizing drugs was a mistake, its own human rights commissioner has issued a statement saying that any return to stigmatizing illicit drug use is racist, colonialist and a violation of human rights.

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The overdose crisis, which has killed more than 16,000 people in B.C. since 2016, is “rooted in colonial approaches that prioritize individualism over community, wealth over health and power over empathy,” reads a new position statement by Kasari Govender, B.C.’s human rights commissioner.

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“Using punitive tactics by criminalizing people who use drugs and doubling down on prohibition policies have proven to be ineffective and harmful for decades,” it adds.

Clean up the piles of vomit, excreta and needles, then, chickie-pie.