The founders of a Vancouver 'compassion club' that sold tested heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine have filed a constitutional challenge of their arrest.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Saying their perception of the Drug User Liberation Front has evolved, Vancouver police raided the Downtown Eastside establishment Wednesday, signalling a crackdown on the organization's activities. DULF has spoken publicly about buying drugs on the black market, testing them, and selling them to select drug users.
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 club’s members.Samidoun, group behind ‘death to Canada’ chant, listed as terrorist entity The legal action claims its members 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.The B.C. Supreme Court document also says the pair should not have been charged because the club’s site had been given the authority by Vancouver Coastal Heath to collect, store and transport illicit drug samples for drug checking or analysis.
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