The two founders of a Vancouver "compassion club," that sold heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine to drug users in the Downtown Eastside, have been convicted of drug trafficking charges.

Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx founded the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) in 2022 to provide uncontaminated drugs to people who would otherwise be at the mercy of an illicit supply tainted with potentially deadly fentanyl and benzodiazepines.

From August 2022 to October 2023, they operated a storefront where they bought drugs through the dark web and tested the drugs for contaminants in university labs, before clearly labelling them and selling them to members.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled Friday that Kalicum and Nyx had broken the law by selling the drugs to their members, and were each guilty of

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