B.C. activists who tested and sold heroin and meth launch constitutional challenge
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A constitutional challenge by founders of a Vancouver "compassion club" who were found guilty of drug trafficking is expected to begin today at the British Columbia Supreme Court.
A constitutional challenge by founders of a Vancouver “compassion club” who were found guilty of drug trafficking is expected to begin today at the British Columbia Supreme Court.
Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx were found guilty by a B.C. Supreme Court judge earlier this month in relation to charges of possessing cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine for the purposes of trafficking.
That decision says the “the conviction will be held in abeyance pending the Constitutional challenge.”
A post to DULF’s website, dated March 3, 2025, says its legal challenge is seeking to prove that a section of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act that prohibits possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking is unconstitutional and “its enforcement is killing the very people it purports to protect.”
It says criminalizing alternatives to the unregulated supply of drugs forces users to rely on deadly street drugs that “disproportionately endangers lives.”
The post says they also intend to argue that the law perpetuates discrimination against people with disabilities, including those with substance-use disorders.
DULF had operated the “compassion club” between August 2022 and October 2023.
In 2021, it approached Health Canada asking for permission to buy heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine on the dark web before having the drugs tested for contaminants and selling them to users through its “compassion club and fulfilment centre.”
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