Rob Shaw: B.C. abandons compassion club it funded as founders face drug convictions

published on November 19, 2025 by Rob Shaw in Business in Vancouver

When a B.C. Supreme Court justice found the two founders of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) guilty on drug trafficking charges earlier this month, the provincial government’s top health officials were not in the courtroom, and nowhere to be found.

Which is odd, given that the very activities of which the DULF co-founders were convicted were the same ones government officials had quietly endorsed for years, according to the court record.

Much has been written about DULF over the years, as a compassion club for people addicted to hard drugs like cocaine, heroin and meth in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx were never shy about creating in 2022 a first-of-its-kind model to buy illegal drugs on the dark web, test them for safety and sell them at cost to 43 club members to provide a safe supply during an ongoing toxic drug crisis that has killed more than 16,000 British Columbians…