Lawyers for the founders of Vancouver91裸聊视频檚 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 Canada91裸聊视频檚 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 91裸聊视频渃ompassion club91裸聊视频� 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.

91裸聊视频淲e want to demonstrate how deeply unfair and discriminatory it is to prevent drug users from saving lives, from saving the lives of the people they care about the most,91裸聊视频� Nix said during a news conference.

Their Charter challenge argues that denying compassion club members access to a predictable supply of drugs they depend on, while exposing them to the severe risks of the street supply is 91裸聊视频済rossly disproportionate91裸聊视频� to any benefits of shutting down the club.

They say in their legal claim that preventing the initiative infringes on their right to liberty and the right to life and security of the person of the compassion club91裸聊视频檚 members.

The pair claim that people with serious addictions are compelled to turn to the toxic street supply for substances they depend on, making it discriminatory to shut down the club and a violation of the right to equality.

Nix said the only way to save lives is to see 91裸聊视频渟ome type of regulation of the illicit drug market.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淥rganized crime thrives on this market and generates money from prohibition, and organized crime does not care about regulating the potency of drugs,91裸聊视频� Nix said.

The Charter application said they should not have been charged because the club91裸聊视频檚 site had been given the authority by Vancouver Coastal Heath to collect, store and transport illicit drug samples for drug checking or analysis.

The operation and eventual arrest of the pair set off significant public sparring between the governing NDP and the Opposition BC United.

Tim Dickson said it was disappointing that there91裸聊视频檚 been a 91裸聊视频渟hift in the political discourse on drug policy in B.C. in recent months.91裸聊视频�

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