#ARE EDUCATED ENOUGH TO HAVE AN OPINION BASED ON YOOOUUUURRRR OUW ASSESSMENT

[timeisacephalopod]

My coworkers were on about apparently B.C doing a fentanyl safe supply program that's allegedly accessible for people aged 12-17 with no parental consent and lost their shit about it because ThAtS bAd. Here's the thing. When I hear a claim like that it's best to look it up, because of it seems on its face really bad or frivolous or wrong and a bunch of people signed off on it something is missing information wise. For example, Stella Lieback being reduced to a punchline by everyone over that McDonald's hot coffee shit because everyone thought the jury was idiots for ruling in her favor, but if you look into it it takes .2 seconds to find out that her wounds were so bad it looked like she'd been in a shark attack.

So I looked it up and found one article I didn't trust because it's from the National Post, probably the only right wing news source in Canada that's even remotely reliable but I don't read that paper because of its political leanings, and given that no one else except The Epoch Times and The Rebel have reported on it I find this but of information WILDLY suspect. If the only ones howling are rightwing fuckos the information is not correct. It's probably based on some truth because the snippet of news brief I watched said IN SOME CASES (which does not read to me like "the government is giving 12 year olds fentanyl if they ask nicely LOLZ it reads like a dr has to sign off on an individual cases based on applicable circumstances) minors could access the safe supply program but given that they interviewed the guy who wrote the post article who's source was, allegedly, two concerned physicians I'm not going to take three people seriously when 2 of them are anonymous.

So pro tip of you hear something ridiculous and absurd policy wise look it the fuck up and see who is talking about it, because that'll tell you exactly how accurate that information is. And if the only people flopping on about it are fucking dip shits then maybe don't swallow that pill without a BUCKET of salt, maybe.