bravery [2017]

by request, my resignation from VANDU – august 24 2017 As a board member of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, I have a clear responsibility to the members — as a peer organization, given our history and goals, this responsibility is serious, and beautiful. I mean it when I say that serving at… Read More bravery [2017]

unnatural disaster

Contagious viruses like COVID-19 that become epidemics, which in turn become pandemics, are inevitable — they happen again and again throughout human history. They are natural disasters — terrible but natural. What illicit drug users have experienced these last years is an unnatural disaster in every way. It is the result of choices: choices that have been made by governments. And different choices could be made every day.… Read More unnatural disaster

This Is How

oh yeah the hearing for the sahota pot shop when we were locked out and we sat outside on the lawn and ate raspberries from the garden and it was the first time i’d sat outside that year. and when the hearing was supposed to start the doors were still locked so i said this… Read More This Is How