$1.$ What is the difference between legalization and decriminalization of illicit drugs?

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$2.$ What are the perceived benefits of decriminalization?

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$3.$ More specifically, why did British Columbia embark on this strategy and what does it entail?

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$4.$ In what ways does the decriminalization of certain illicit drugs by British Columbia represent a

major departure in Canadian Drug Policy.

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$5.$ The Portuguese Model of drug decriminalization has been praised for its effectiveness. In what

important ways did critics claim that the British Columbia approach differs from the Portuguese

approach?

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$6.$ Other critics claimed that British Columbia$$s experiment would be essentially the same as that

recently undertaken by Oregon, which they have seen as a failure. What were the results in

Oregon? What were the potential reasons for these results, that might have served as a lesson

for British Columbia policy$-$makers?

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$7.$ What did critics say about the potential effectiveness of decriminalization, when it comes to

solving the problem of the surge in drug related deaths in British Columbia?

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$8.$ We are now $9$ to $10$ months into this policy change. At the $6$ month mark the press reported on

the success of the policy. Based on that reporting, briefly summarize what has been working,

and what has not. $(5$ marks$)$