Does anyone check if these numbers are accurate? My experience is that the cops weigh all the packaging and containers and add that to the total.

If the progressive parties don't unite together we're going to lose another election to the ABC. We need one big tent, not several small isolated silos.

The case is scheduled for the next two weeks and then one TBD week in 2026, likely happening in January or March.

I'll wrap with Nyx: "I've watched my coworkers die on the ground, friends die who leave behind children. This is gutting my community, killing everyone I know... If you're subject to this over and over again it becomes routine... for 10 years been screaming for help... that's fallen on deaf ears."

Importantly — and this was stressed in friggen heartbreaking testimony — they were doing this while their friends, family and community members were dying in horrific, horrific numbers. The trauma they experienced/continue to experience is very clear. The crisis is continuing, 5 ppl/ day are dying.

Nyx and Kalicum are refuting this and arguing that they did everything they could at the time. Small errors in the study? They were learning how to write academic papers on the fly. Small flaws in communication with Health Canada? They're not lawyers and presented the info the best they could.

DULF lawyers are arguing shutting down the compassion club violates member's Charter Rights under section 7 (right to life, liberty and security) and section 15 (right to be treated equally under the law). Basically closing DULF puts marginalized folks at high risk of OD and death.

On Oct. 25, 2023 Nyx and Kalicum were arrested and charged with trafficking. On Nov. 7, 2025 they were found guilty of trafficking with intent to distribute.
That lets them issue a charter challenge of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which they did. That's why they're in court right now.

DULF tried to work with almost every level of gov, asking Health Canada to give them permission to buy, test and distribute drugs (denied), the province to give them permission to test drugs and run an OPS (granted), and for support from police (grey area, some officers said initiative was helpful)

DULF was collecting donations (legal) and buying heroin, cocaine and meth off the dark web (illegal). Once they had the drugs Vancouver Coastal Health worked with them to help rigorously test the drugs and label the drugs (legal), and DULF would sell the drugs at cost to members (illegal).

This club sold to 47 adult members and it seemed to work. After one year of operation members reported fewer overdoses, incidents with police, hospital visits, crime. There were no deaths.
Having a dedicated source of known potency and purity seemed to help stabilize people.

Background: More than 18,600 BCers have been killed by unregulated drugs since 2014. The gov has tried some harm reduction but thousands have still died. DULF decided to break drug laws, which they say were unjust, to provide pure, labelled drugs to high-risk users in a compassion club.

Some folks like a little weed,
some folks like a lot.
Some prefer a giant dab,
and some just don't smoke pot.

Stronger weed or weaker weed,
it doesn't really matter.
If your joint ain't strong enough,
just roll a little fatter.

22/22

Humans have been getting high
all way back through history.
We've always grown great ganja crops
of high-grade potency!

The truth is that the herb these days
is basically the same.
The pushers of the too-potent pot propaganda
are really just playing a game.

21/22

Plus we can't forget about
the hashish and extracts.
There's always been potent concentrates
and those are just the facts.

People have puffed on potent pot
for a couple of thousand years.
People who pretend potent pot is new
are promoting baseless fears.

20/22