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Today, charges against DULF's founders were tossed out by a BC Supreme Court decision Yesterday, we covered how docs in trial evidence show Vancouver police pushed to bring those charges — even when a Crown prosecutor questioned whether it was in the public interest

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BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."

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she's directing parliament to address these issues, and she won't give a 12-month pause on declaring it unconstitutional — opting, instead, for six months — because we are in a public health crisis.

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and there was no real avenue for DULF to get approved to operate legally through s. 56 of the CDSA. she finds s. 7 of the charter was violated and that declaring s. 5(2) of the CDSA is unconstitutional.

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i'm in BC Supreme Court waiting to hear the ruling from Justice Catherine Murray, who is making findings: a non-medicalized safe supply program is desperately needed, the DULF compassion club didn't cause any harm, and there wasn't any licit supply for DULF to access

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and while DULF's lawyers argued the VPD should have simply gone to DULF to tell them to shut down rather than charging them, records show VPD had to convince prosecutors to approve charges — and they expended considerable resources trying to get more serious charges

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a senior officer met with them in Aug 2021 and while he preferred a legal compassion club, he also didn't exactly discourage them from running one without legal approvals that same officer was the one who recommended approving an investigation into the compassion club two years later

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