Margaret was a Canadian drug addict and one of Bud Osborn’s friends in Downtown Eastside. Most of her family was also addicted to drugs. When she told Bud Osborn about her cousin overdosing and her cousin’s partner committing suicide in front of their young child, Osborn decided he had to do something about Vancouver’s drug problem. He started holding political meetings for addicts, and they eventually grew into the activist group VANDU.
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Chapter 14: The Drug Addicts’ Uprising
...and kept wondering if they were for his friends. He ran into a friend named Margaret, who explained that her cousin just overdosed, and then her partner found her body and...
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On the day that Osborn met Margaret, he already knew that the drug war made overdoses far worse. Under drug prohibition, addicts...
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