Lawyers for the founders of Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front say their clients are being wrongfully criminalized for operating a club that provided untainted drugs to people who would otherwise be at the mercy of a toxic and deadly illicit drug supply.
Lawyers Tim Dickson and Stephanie Dickson outlined a constitutional challenge of Canada’s Controlled Drugs and Substances Act on Tuesday, filed in B.C. Supreme Court on behalf of Jeremy Kalicum and Erys Nix.
The pair had operated a “compassion club” that sold heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine bought on the dark web and tested for contaminants.
The club was raided by police in October last year, and the pair have since been charged with drug trafficking.
Their trial is set for October 2025, but they claim their Charter rights and the rights of users were violated when the club was shut and they were arrested.
“We want to demonstrate how …