🇨🇦 Drug ban lifted for Ontario man who stabbed 83-year-old stranger while on drugs

Richard Pillar was high on crystal meth and cannabis when he attacked an elderly woman from behind, stabbing her in the eye and leaving her permanently disfigured. He was two weeks late for his antipsychotic injection because he wanted to see what it was like off his meds. He has command hallucinations telling him to kill women, a history of violent relapse, and clozapine levels so fragile that smoking cigarettes throws them off. The Ontario Review Board, his psychiatrist, and all counsel have now agreed to lift his drug ban to test his resolve.

This is the Canadian justice system in its final form: a social experiment with your grandmother as the control group. Public safety is now subordinate to therapeutic optimism and bureaucratic box-checking. Pillar lives in subsidized housing in St. Thomas, free to discover whether a glass of wine leads back to methamphetamine and another woman losing an eye. Rina Campagna already paid the price for someone else's compassion.

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