Kanada. Future of DULF compassion club will hinge on judicial review
Kanada. Future of DULF compassion club will hinge on judicial review
Judicial review of Canada’s decision to deny a peer-led safe supply group an exemption to operate legally will begin on March 7 in the Federal Court of Canada in Vancouver.
In August 2021, Vancouver-based groups the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), applied for a Section 56 exemption to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA). This would have allowed DULF to run a not-for-profit “compassion club”—to purchase, test and sell drugs at cost, in order to protect a small group of adults who use drugs from the adulterated street supply.
DULF went ahead with its volunteer-led program anyway, until it was forcibly halted by Vancouver police on October 25, 2023. Co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were arrested and released on certain conditions; the Crown has yet to press charges.
Nearly a year after filing, their exemption request was denied by Health Canada. (IDPC, UK, 10.03.2024)
https://idpc.net/news/2024/03/future-of-dulf-compassion-club-will-hinge-on-judicial-review