The Vancouver Police Department announced Thursday that officers have arrested two people after executing search warrants at the Drug User Liberation Front office on Hastings Street, as well as two homes on the city’s east side.
Speaking at a news conference, Insp. Phil Heard of the VPD’s Organized Crime Section acknowledged DULF’s harm-reduction efforts while also stating that the organization has “publicly admitted to trafficking controlled substances, including heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamines.”
“We understand the magnitude of the ongoing overdose crisis and the impact drug toxicity deaths have in communities throughout the province, including here in Vancouver,” said Heard.
This one is weird because source selection is important, like how hard we should work to limit public funding going to cartels that are causing legitimate harms in those communities.
Sometimes it’s more expensive to source the substances ethically, but it’s worth doing. I’m sure there are also groups trying to take advantage of these programs for their own gain.
Cartels don’t like progress either, they profit off the violence and addiction
Exactly why we need Neutral Good to come into play here. Are we seriously supposed to believe the cost of lives lost, monetary cost of arresting them, taking them to court, and then housing them in prison, is worth it because ‘well it is technically against the law.’