Educating (Indoctrinating) the Younger Generation in Canada

"Have condoms and lube with you. You may want to have sex while high."

"Adding a personal touch to  your snorting equipment will help you better recognize your own when using with others."

"You may be new to snorting drugs or have snorted drugs for many years. Either way, this resource has something for you."

Staying Safe When You're Snorting information booklet

 

"We were recently made aware of materials that were left at one of our school sites from a third-party harm reduction and drug addiction presentation that we do not consider school or age appropriate."

"[We are undertaking a] full investigation [of our policies with respect to third-party presentations]."

"While the District does support harm reduction as a well-researched and effective method of addressing the ongoing opioid crisis and conversations around drugs and drug addiction, we aim to ensure that the teachings related to it are appropriate for our students."

Cowichan Valley (British Columbia) School District

Safer snorting kits were handed out by a third-party after a presentation at a B.C. high school. Photo by Aaron Gunn / Twitter

A British Columbia conservative commentator issued a tweet on Saturday -- popular enough that 600,000 views resulted -- about 'safe snorting kits' being distributed to students at a Cowichan area high school. "Today in British Columbia ... they are handing out 'safer snorting kits to children as young as 15", wrote Aaron Gunn. Including images of the kit, Mr. Gunn remarked the kit had been handed to students in a region just north of the provincial capital, Victoria.

The revelation prompted the school district to launch an investigation of the 'safer snorting kits' being handed out to assembled teens. Straws, wallet-sized cards for cutting powdered drugs into snortable lines, along with a booklet on "staying safe when you're snorting" formed part of the kit. The booklet addresses the wide variety of drugs that can be snorted ranging from cocaine to crystal meth, fentanyl and ketamine.

The kit -- advised an obviously embarrassed social media statement by the Cowichan Valley School District -- had been distributed by a "third party", the situation not in keeping with district policy. The Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE), largely funded by government grants including the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Health, is the publisher of the Safer Snorting booklet as well as its distributor.

To clarify, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control offers bulk shipments of "harm reduction supplies", inclusive of syringes, tourniquets, flavoured condoms, pipes and snorting straws. Perhaps in a nod to the reality that their target audience in this instance is young people, its supply requisition form offers snorting straws in bags of 250, in four colours. In 2021, the centre announced it was "pleased" to say that drug snorting straws would be offered henceforth in biodegradable paper instead of single-use plastic, deemed less environmentally harmful.

Elsewhere in Canada, a York University student last year scored 1.2 million views for a TikTok post that featured a "safer snorting kit" that had been distributed to students. His little joke noted that the Toronto school was handing out "coke kits". "We won't ask you for ID when you order or pick up your supplies. Plus, supplies come in non-identifiable packing", the centre notes, encouraging orders to be made through an alias.

And at the University of Victoria an on-campus Harm Reduction Centre offers free, no limit, no-questions-asked packages of "safer snorting supplies", "safer injection supplies", and "safer smoking supplies". While the service is meant to be reserved for registered University of Victoria students, the Harm Reduction Centre's only check of student status appears to be a single, anonymous online check box. 

 

A public health nurse in March invited to speak to Grade 8 students at a Fort Nelson, B.C. school, handed out cards containing descriptions of extreme sex acts. These compassionate, youth-friendly talks and assurances and usefully available tools to a lifetime of recreational drug dependency appear to have taken the place of teaching complicated subjects like personal responsibility and the functionality of a drug-unaltered mind.

The bright minds who see great social merit in 'educating' the young on the finer points of recreational drug use and accompanying sexual exploits appear fixated on the assurance that they are involved in a public social service to the young and impressionable in Canada. What they are doing in fact, is impressing on malleable young minds that these perverse life-altering addictions are perfectly fine, else the school authorities would not be recommending them. 

"The best way to prevent harms when snorting is to use your own equipment and not share with others."

"There are many ways drugs are snorted. You might use straws, rolled paper, glass or metal tubes, or you may snort your drugs straight from your hand or a hard surface."

"[The booklet explains] the basics of safer drug snorting, nose care and prevention of hepatitis C infections."

Canadian Aids Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE)