“We’re right here! We’re excessive! Get used to it!” This was what Garth Mullins’s girlfriend was yelling at a protest within the late Nineties in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mullins—who was, on the time, attempting to “maintain a low profile,” which “isn’t simple for a six-foot-four albino with a hollering girlfriend”—describes this second as a turning level. He went from somebody who noticed “heroin as a medicine, not a whole id,” to somebody who wished to guide a motion for the decriminalization of medicine. The mantra, Mullins writes in his ebook, Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the Battle on Medication, “had damaged the strain, and folks laughed. One after the other, then en masse, we took the road. It felt superb—a legion of drug customers—not embarrassed or ashamed, however proudly marching and chanting slogans.”
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