Campaigners Hand Out Free 'Clean' Heroin, Crack And Cocaine Outside Police Station

A campaign group who are calling for a safe supply of drugs in Canada handed out free 'clean' heroin, meth and cocaine outside a police station.

The Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) stood outside the Vancouver Police Department to hand out the drugs.

According to a press release from DULF, the drugs that were given away had been tested via 'FTIR spectrometry and immunoassay, and are free of fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, benzodiazepines, and other harmful adulterants'.

Canada is moving towards decriminalising drugs, but some activists believe this isn't enough and are urging officials to have a rethink.

DULF says it wants to raise awareness of the 'deeply flawed aspects of the Vancouver Model of decriminalisation', which the organisation says includes the 'disproportionate influence of the Vancouver Police Department, unreasonably low drug thresholds, and lack of provisions for safe supply'.

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DULF organiser Jeremy Kalicum told Vancouver is Awesome that the group spent around $3,000 on drugs that were then handed out.

He told the publication: "We intended to give out more than the proposed threshold limit that's in Vancouver's proposed model.

"We gave three-and-a-half grams of each drug."

City Councillor Jean Swanson was among those giving away the drugs, and says if the Canadian government introduced a safe supply lives would be saved.

Swanson told City News 1130: "When you look at all the things that the government has done around COVID - eviction ban, closing businesses, stopping travel, and then you look at what they've done to stop the poisoned drug crisis - there is no comparison.

"What we need is to ramp up the efforts to stop people dying from poisoned drugs. And the main thing we need is a safe supply of drugs."

She added: "I think the important thing is we shouldn't have precious human beings dying every day because of poisoned drugs.

"There is a way and the way to end it is by having a safe supply. Governments could do that. They could do it today. And they should."

Topics: Drugs, Canada

Claire Reid

Claire is a journalist at LADbible who, after dossing around for a few years, went to Liverpool John Moores University. She graduated with a degree in Journalism and a whole load of debt. When not writing words in exchange for money she is usually at home watching serial killer documentaries surrounded by cats. You can contact Claire at [email protected]

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