When two operators of Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) were found guilty of possession for the purpose of trafficking last month, no one should have been surprised.

Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were charged in October 2023 after running a storefront “compassion club” in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for a little more than a year. During that time, the pair bought illicit drugs — heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine — off the dark web, had them tested at a University of Victoria lab to ensure purity, and sold the drugs to the club’s 43 members for cost. Their stated goal was to prevent deaths attributed to drug poisoning.

Although the B.C. government-funded club was granted an exemption from Vancouver Coastal Health for the testing, packaging and supervised consumption of

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