VANCOUVER — The co-founder of a Vancouver “compassion club” that bought heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine so it could be tested and sold to save lives said he wanted to stop the dangerous street drugs from killing people.

“It’s like you’re trying to bail out a boat with a thimble,” Jeremy Kalicum told a B.C. Supreme Court Monday, describing the crisis where he would see hundreds of overdoses.

Kalicum was testifying on the first day of a constitutional challenge after he and Eris Nyx, the other co-founder of the Drug User Liberation Front, were convicted of possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking.

The convictions earlier this month have been suspended until the constitutional argument is decided.

Their lawyers say the criminal charges that shut down the compassion club, vio

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