This is very rapey talk.

Family of Myles Gray shouldn’t have to ‘rely on charity,’ lawyer says before hearing

We should be announcing the end of the drug criminalization experiment, which has failed terribly and causes nothing but misery and death in Canada and around the world.

Have a Merry-Juana Christmas everyone!

Drug User Liberation Front's founders are arguing their members’ constitutional rights were violated by part of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Post your get away vehicle.

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great explainer on how dulf's constitutional challenge works, how it could change canada's drug laws, and what happened the first week in court. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Cocaine and coca leaf should be completely legal in the same way as caffeine and coffee beans are. If this was the case, snorting cocaine would be about as popular as snorting caffeine is today. Prohibition itself causes and worsens all the problems it claims to be solving.

"Access to involuntary care" is an Orwellian euphemism. Eby knows this is morally and medically wrong-headed, and he's doing it solely for political reasons.

If they can murder alleged drug smugglers in the ocean, they can murder alleged drug dealers on the street. It's time to acknowledge that the "drug war" causes and worsens all the harms it claims to prevent. #nomoredrugwar #endprohibition

I am going to repeat this forever: Supply-side crackdowns on drug use are useless, even fatal. They move addicts toward more dangerous substances, they create incentives for dealers to cut other drugs with the more dangerous substances (Xanax cut with whatever) so more casual users die, too.

Wonder how many years we have left of unleaded gasoline before there's a movement to put the lead back in

A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.

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.

Been covering DULF's constitutional challenge for @thetyee.ca this week. Crown prosecutors have tried to poke lots of small holes in what founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were doing. Nyx and Kalicum have largely defended themselves saying they were doing the best they knew how at the time.

We are repelled by the opium habit not because it is harmful, but the other way around: we regard it as harmful in order to maintain our justification for prohibiting it.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Donald Trump didn't kill himself. (Trying to get in early on this one before the rush starts.)

Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply

THE POT POTENCY POEM They say the weed you're smoking now, it ain't your mother's grass! Your weed's mega-potent, her stuff's all weak-ass. They say the weed's way stronger now and you know it must be true, After all when it comes to weed they’ll never lie to you! 1/22

Something those of us in drug law reform have been pointing out, crystallized perfectly in Dr. Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow". So much of the drug war was dress rehearsal for what you're seeing now—suspicionless stop'n'frisk, zip-tied kids, shot dogs, tear gas, flash bangs, testilying cops.

On a new 👁‍🗨@redeyeradio👁‍🗨 the BC Centre on Substance Use's Kora DeBeck explains why David Eby's announcement of 100 new involuntary care beds in the province is being broadly criticized by drug policy researchers. www.listennotes.com/podcasts/red... 🔶

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.

On the plus side, the ballroom will be a good place to hold the tribunals.

I’m a drug use researcher and I’m here to assure you in very strong terms that blasting boats to smithereens is not an “anti-drug strategy” in any way, form, or fashion.

In 2018 Canada ended cannabis prohibition. This must not be seen as the end, it's actually a beginning. The next steps are clear: End psychedelic prohibition, then dismantle the whole corrupt & destructive "war on drugs." #endprohibition #drugsky #nomoredrugwar #psychedelicsky

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al. A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator" 3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

Thanks to @thetyee.ca for getting this story out to a bigger audience. Some incredible comments by the judge during the closing arguments. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

11/X The correct response to doda tea would have been sensible regulations: • Ensure it is only sold to adults. • Set standards for quality and potency. • Mandate warning labels. • Discourage irresponsible use. Those kinds of policies make sense. Criminalized prohibition does not.

10/X The lesson is that prohibition makes problems worse. If we banned caffeine & coffee beans tomorrow, the same thing would happen. Neighbourhood cafes would be replaced by gangs, while many former coffee-lovers would end up using much riskier synthetic caffeine substitutes.

9/X Our current drug laws have created a backwards world. Because of prohibition, it's much easier to get fentanyl than to find a cup of doda tea! Good drug policy should do the opposite: make it easier to get safer versions of these drugs, and more difficult to get the riskier forms.

8/X The doda ban 15 years ago has been a perfect example of how prohibition worsens the harms it claims to prevent. The doda ban didn't help anyone. Instead it clearly caused many deaths, both from overdoses and from gang violence, as well as promoting misery and harm to society.

7/X I searched but cannot find a single Canadian news report of a doda-related death in the years before the 2009 doda ban. But in the years after the doda ban, as doda users were forced to switch to heroin, and then to fentanyl, overdose deaths began soaring in Canada's South Asian communities.

6/X Before the ban, doda tea was being sold in the South Asian community peacefully, in friendly neighbourhood shops. After the ban, doda was replaced by stronger opiates being sold by gangs. Violence soared as these new gangs fought amongst themselves to control the now-lucrative trade.

5/X What was the result of Canada's cops criminalizing doda? Sadly, but also predictably, the doda ban made everything worse. People who had been fine drinking their doda tea were forced to switch to more potent, riskier options, like oxycodone and heroin. Misery and death ensued.

4/X Once Health Canada caved to the cops and reclassified doda as a Schedule I drug, the busts began. In 2009-2010 there were sudden raids on doda-selling grocery stores across Canada. These shops had been operating for years. They likely didn't even know the legal status of doda had changed!

3/X Doda is so mild that Health Canada couldn't find opiates in it. So the government didn't consider doda to be an illegal drug. It was sold openly. Police took it upon themselves to "educate one of the head guys from Health Canada" and pressure the government to treat doda the same as heroin.

2/x In 2009 Canadian police launched a major anti-doda propaganda campaign. Anti-doda scare stories suddenly showed up everywhere. Cops dubbed it "the poor man's heroin." Many stories like these appeared in early 2009. In the years before, doda was never in the news. It wasn't a problem.