Court challenges B.C. illicit-drug compassion club’s safer-supply transition | Unpublished
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Publication Date: November 25, 2025 - 22:44

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Court challenges B.C. illicit-drug compassion club’s safer-supply transition

November 25, 2025

After political backlash forced B.C. health authorities to pull funding and the Vancouver storefront they had provided to the two operators of an illicit-drug compassion club, Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx convened a meeting with club members and representatives from the local health authority.

The program, which for more than a year provided 43 members with access to lab-checked heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, would no longer be able to operate, Mr. Kalicum told the group in October, 2023, as he recounted in a B.C. courtroom on Tuesday.



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