DULF co-founders Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx face 3 costs
Two founders of a Vancouver drug abuse advocacy group who distributed what they mentioned had been secure doses of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine to forestall overdoses have been charged with trafficking offenses because of the raids the police final yr.
Vancouver police mentioned in a press release Friday that members of the Drug Person Liberation Entrance (DULF) have spoken publicly about drug trafficking.
Police mentioned possession for the needs of trafficking costs had been permitted on Might 31 towards Jeremy Kalicum, 28, and Eris Nyx, 33, who’re the co-founders of DULF.
The police assertion mentioned Kalicum and Nyx face three costs and are scheduled to seem in court docket on July 2.
Police executed search warrants at DULF's Downtown Eastside workplaces final October, in addition to two properties associated to the investigation.
On the time, the group's web site mentioned its “achievement middle” allowed drug customers to obtain as much as 14 grams of cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine per week, with the substances examined for safety earlier than the sale “at value”.
In an August press convention, Nyx mentioned the group had distributed 201 doses in its first month of operation, and continued distribution regardless of failing to safe a authorized exemption.
The group had known as for a similar mechanism that permits supervised secure consumption websites to function legally in Vancouver and for BC to pilot the decriminalization of small quantities of some medicine. Well being Canada denied its software in 2022, and DULF has since requested a judicial evaluation of the choice in federal court docket.
Tim Dickson and Stephanie Dickson, authorized counsel for DULF, mentioned in a joint assertion to CBC Information that their shoppers are dissatisfied that the fees have been permitted.
“We’re shocked that the Crown made this choice earlier than the Federal Court docket determined whether or not Well being Canada's denial of an exemption for the compassion membership was constitutional,” the attorneys mentioned.
“If the Crown is severe about pursuing these costs, our shoppers will problem the constitutionality of banning a safer life-saving provide program in mild of this devastating poisonous drug disaster.”
