Police simply walk past drug users as new law comes into force despite 2,272 deaths from illicit substances last year in British Columbia
At just past 8am I am standing on East Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver with a small packet of crack cocaine in my hand.
Snow is falling gently and dozens, if not hundreds, of drug addicts are already on the move, unbothered when they tread in the human faeces littering the pavement.
Some have already had their fix, and slump lifelessly against shopfronts or slumber in makeshift tents where many stash guns and knives.
