"We’re here! We’re high! Get used to it!" This was what Garth Mullins’s girlfriend was yelling at a protest in the late 1990s in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mullins—who was, at the time, trying to "keep a low profile," which "isn’t easy for a six-foot-four albino with a hollering girlfriend"—describes this moment as a turning point. He went from someone who saw "heroin as a medication, not an entire identity," to someone who wanted to lead a movement for the decriminalization of drugs. The