One of British Columbia’s most prominent drug legalization activists says he will fight the provincial government in its attempt to keep cash seized during raids of his businesses.
The B.C. government has filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit against Dana Larsen and others, alleging more than $100,000 seized in police raids of his psilocybin mushroom dispensaries are proceeds of crime.
The suit claims Larsen and a group called the “Strathcona Tea Society” processed and trafficked drugs covered by the Controlled Substances Act.
Larsen says he will fight to get at least some of the money back.
“I was surprised by both of the raids, to be honest, there are a least a dozen two dozen other shops in the city doing similar things that we do,” he told Global News.
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“We do sell more different substances than a lot of the other ones do, but it was still surprising to have a raid like that.”
B.C.’s civil …