November 2017
The organization appears to offer addicts a needed route to recovery, while preserving farmland. What’s the hold up?
RYAN COLWELL WAS ONCE ON THE FAST TRACK TO DEATH. Addicted to heroin and fentanyl, the former Surrey resident found himself living on the streets of Victoria at the age of 24, bouncing from shelter to shelter for a place to lay his head. Every day was the same routine—search for more drugs and money, which he’d steal and rob from people in order to get his next fix.
“It’s pretty sad,” said the soft-spoken Colwell, sitting on a pile of hay bale