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.
Methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine, from a safe supply handed out to drug users by the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, Drug User Liberation Front and Moms Stop the Harm, are displayed in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
The pair had operated a “compassion club” that sold heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine bought on the dark web and tested for contaminants. “We want to demonstrate how deeply unfair and discriminatory it is to prevent drug users from saving lives, from saving the lives of the people they care about the most,” Nix said during a news conference.
The Charter application said they 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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