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B.C. man who bought dark web drugs for compassion club says he wanted to reduce overdoses

A co-founder of the Drug User Liberation Front, Jeremy Kalicum, stated that the purpose of their compassion club was to reduce overdose deaths from street drugs and provide safer options for users.
Kalicum testified that their drug-testing initiative faced bureaucratic obstacles from Health Canada, which rejected their application for exemptions due to public health risks.
Their lawyer, Tim Dickson, argued in court that shutting down the compassion club increased the risk of overdose and violated users' rights to life and security, according to the Charter.
Kalicum described a serious drug crisis, revealing that 1,384 people died from unregulated drugs in B.C. this year, emphasizing the urgent need for harm reduction efforts.

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