living, maybe helping them live somewhere where they're away from the rest of the public. So you don't want to do what San Francisco did, to create an actual physical zone where you can all go in and shoot drugs. Maybe the worst idea ever. Possibly the worst idea of all time. And let's put it right in the middle of our beautiful city that depends on tourism. Worst idea.

Best idea might be we're going to legalize it but we're also going to legalize ketamine and mushrooms and other treatments. You want to hear something about rehab that I heard the other day? I heard this from a reliable source. Apparently the government will pay for your rehab. Did you know that if you're poor? I'm not sure if it's Medicaid or whatever it is but you know the government will pay to put you in it if you don't have money, right? Now I didn't know that either but apparently, and I don't know if it's just California. I don't know the details. Might be just California. But it's a real medical problem and we do give medical treatment to people in medical problems even if they don't have insurance.

So here's what's happening and I'm told this is widespread. A rehab will of course want people to go there and the government will pay. So there are body people, people who go out and find addicts and they talk them into going to rehab. So far so good, right? No problem with that. Go talk the addicts into rehab. They go into rehab and then the government pays the bill and the rehab is happy, right? And then the person who went in there, presumably they would be happy, wouldn't you say? Because they got free rehab. Pretty good deal. Except the people that are gathered up are people who do not want to be straight. They're paid to go to rehab. Yep, they pay them to go to rehab with no expectation that anybody will try to fix them. As soon as they're out, if they do their two weeks or whatever it is, do you know what the body person does? Scores them some drugs right away so they can be the person you bring back in again. You get them high as soon as they're out. You already have their contact information. You know who they are. You know that they've said yes once to taking a check to pretending to be in rehab. So they go and they pretend to be in rehab again.

It turns out there's some large part, I don't know the percentage. Yeah I'm sure there are also plenty of completely ethical rehab places but the whole industry has got a problem that it looks like the way the money works they don't have an incentive to fix anybody. They have an incentive to pump the same addicts through their system as often as possible. Now I'm also not aware of any rehab that works. I'm just, I realize that's controversial. I'm not aware of any that work. And in California anyway there's a lot of belief that there's some kind of support services for addicts. There really isn't. You can look as hard as you want. There won't be any. There's nothing. You're pretty much on your own.

So imagine if British Columbia did the following things, and I'm not saying they will. I'm just making a larger case that there's a right way and a wrong way to do stuff. The wrong way was I think some European countries did free needles and stuff. Didn't work out as well as they wanted. San Francisco did the free needle zone. Total disaster, right? So there are lots of bad ways to legalize drugs. But imagine a good way