VANCOUVER - A co-founder of Vancouver's Drug User Liberation Front said he was surprised by Health Canada's lack of "urgency" about the deadly toxic drug crisis, and the absence of a pharmaceutical-grade supplier meant the club had to turn to the dark web to get pure substances.

Jeremy Kalicum continued his testimony in a constitutional challenge to Canada's drug laws in B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Kalicum, a public health researcher, said the club's original engagement with Health Canada proposed two models for its operation, and the preferred option would've been to source pharmaceutical-grade heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.

Under cross-examination from Crown lawyer Oren Bick, Kalicum said DULF hoped to figure out a way to get a pharmaceutical supplier, but the "current regu

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