#dulf

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Vancouver police have arrested drug policy activists Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum after executing search warrants on the Drug User Liberation Front office and their homes.

Since 2020, Nyx and Kalicum have held protest events and operated a compassion club to supply tested heroin, cocaine and meth to drug users, despite the risk of arrest for breaking Canada’s controlled substances laws.

Nyx and Kalicum said they were driven to break drug laws through firsthand experience of the overdose crisis. Nyx has spoken about losing dozens of friends to the overdose crisis, while Kalicum previously told Vancouver city council about reversing over 100 overdoses when he worked in the Downtown Eastside.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #safe supply #DULF #drug user liberation front #british columbia #BC #vancouver #drugs #drugs tw

[ppcbug]

Meanwhile in Canada…

Things like cigarettes are so villainized and taxed so high. Menthol cigarettes are even ILLEGAL. While in British Columbia narcotics are FREE and packaged nicely with warning labels for the homeless!

This Christmas a man sent all 87 B.C. MLAs magic mushrooms and politicians had the nerve to be angry. The same politicians who are mad about being gifted drugs are the same ones who allow organizations to freely dispense them!

We are living in clown world 🤡 so called “safe supply” will only lead to death and ruined lives.

#voteppc to oppose safe supply

#british columbia #bc #canada #cadpoli #bcpoli #ppc #people's party of canada #canada first #drugs #safe supply #dulf #meth #cocaine #heroin #death #genocide #mla #cigarette #menthol #voteppc

[mtmfl]

#dulfs #food #burger

[leechs]

Hii rose. I’ve been reading up on harm reduction efforts and I was wondering if you’ve heard about the Drug Users Liberation Front’s court case & what your thoughts on it are. I personally think DULF legally fucked up when they bought from the black market. We need to seize the means of drug production lol. Ofc I’m sure synthesizing it themselves would have been like nigh impossible but I wonder if there is any hope of separating our drug supply from organized crime considering even legalized marijuana suffers from it & businesses are trying to create monopolies in foreign countries(like the us in eswatini).

yes i have and i think as a government funded non profit they shouldve known that this was going to come back to haunt them and at least affect their funding / at worst get them sent to prison… other harm reduction agencies have less risky ways to ensure people consume safe drugs if that was indeed their goal… but again bc they were a government funded non profit producing drugs themselves wouldve also landed them in the same predicament … as far as individuals or communities seizing production / separating supply from organized crime its a very difficult question… organized crime benefits from the illegality of drug production and sale because it makes it so not just anyone can grow poppies on a field of land and process it into opium without the heavy risk of incarceration… but then again big business benefits from legalization because they have the immediate financial means needed to produce newly legalized drugs en masse and create a brand out of it, effectively becoming the new “organized criminals”

#theres many solutions to this but theres always a trade off somewhere

[sugar-omi]

Rip😔dilf!Cove getting his ass beaten by these younger crazy Coves. Youngsters these days.

Meanwhile gilf!Cove is fuckin gone like legit gone from the poll rip pop pop grabbing the shovel as we speak

RIP DULF N GILF COVE 🤧🤧

ALSO NOT THE FUCKING SHOVEL STOP IT HE HAS SOME LIFE LEFT IN HIM I SWEAR <////3

[hees-mine]

Or y/n getting with boemgyu whos also a dulf and hee's friend raahhhhh🤡👹👹👹👹👹

It just keeps getting worse and worse atp

The fucking possibilities are endless now 😂😭

At this point we’ll all be reading last time part 10,000 looking like this: 👵👴

#hees-mine questions

[rezcowgirl]

This is stressing me tf out. If you could take a moment to throw your support behind DULF, in person, through an e-mail, financially, etc., that would be directly and immensely helpful

People on the front lines of harm-reduction are grief stricken, tired, and desperate, watching people they love die every day. All while distant people philosophize over $70 glasses of their legalized, safe-supply wine, whether illicit drug users deserve any dignity, or to even live at all.

#i'm not making this reblogable because i cannot speak more than this #but i encourage others to repost/share the above link

[flower-zombie-rob]

What will it take for you guys to lwave behind the thrussy stuff and stop blaming me for chase booby? What maid lookin dulf lookin egos do i have to curate for you heathens to forgive me FOR SOMETHING I DIDNT EVEN DO!?!?

[zpl1nt3r3d-b0n3-zhardz]

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[onecornerface]

Pseudo-arguments against safe supply

A lot of anti-safe-supply arguments simply aren't really arguments against safe supply itself at all. They are some other kind of argument, against some adjacent position, or sometimes against some subset of forms of safe supply (as opposed to safe supply in general). I'll give some examples, along with very brief replies-- not so much rebuttals to the argument, but simply pointing to the more basic fact of how the argument is limited in its scope.

--- Argument 1. "Safe supply isn't fully safe."

Reply: Ok, then maybe call it by the alternate name "safer supply" instead. This is an objection to the term, not the thing itself. EVEN IF the term sucks (which I don't concede), the thing itself could be good. Keep your eye on the substantive arguments. (There is a way of making a substantive version of this argument-- i.e. that safe supply isn't safe enough [by some standard to be further specified]-- but I'm here referring to a type of deflection, one which aims to distract from the substantive issue.)

--- Argument 2: ""Safe(r) supply" is an ideological/political/marketing term, not a medical term."

Reply: Ok, then call it something else. That is still only an objection to the term, not the thing itself. (The opponents' proposed alternative names, e.g. 'public supply of addictive drugs' are highly ideological too, but whatever.)

--- Argument 3: "There isn't a clear and consistent definition of 'safe supply.'"

Reply: Ok, then let's look at some of the many specific token instances of things sometimes called 'safe supply' (i.e. pilot projects, practices, proposals, etc.) & argue about those things-in-themselves, not semantics.

--- Argument 4: "We should support recovery & treatment."

Reply: I totally agree! Glad we're on the same page about that! Uh... remind me HOW exactly this is an anti-safe-supply argument, as opposed to just changing the subject? (cf. my earlier posts on this)

--- Argument 5: "Safe supply enables diversion."

Reply: This is just an argument against take-home, not supervised models. (Note: 'diversion' is way overblown & we should oppose supervision requirements-- I'll have more posts on this later. But it's still worth pointing out that the argument has ZERO weight against supervised forms of safe supply. Yet it is often mobilized as if it counted against all forms of safe supply, which is dishonest. Some opponents of safe supply are more careful about the scope of their argument, but most are not.)

--- Argument 6: "Safe supply shouldn't be funded with tax dollars."

Reply: Ok, then let people do safe supply on another funding model. If people want to buy safe supply drugs, or donate to nonprofits to provide them free/cheap, then just stay out of the way. But you probably won't even do this much. Also, anti-safe-supply advocates almost always DO want our tax dollars to be used to finance a massive system of arrests anyway. (cf. my earlier post on this)

--- Argument 7: "Safe supply is not a real form of medical care or addiction treatment."

Reply: Ok, this is not an objection to nonmedical forms of safe supply, such as DULF-style compassion club models or outright legalization, which do not generally claim to be treatment or medical at all. (There are strong arguments that safe supply IS medical care, or even indeed counts as a form of addiction treatment. But even if these arguments fail, this is at most an argument against "medical models" of safe supply, and simply have zero weight against nonmedical models. Yet again, they are used as if they condemn safe supply altogether, which they do not. Also, I actually think "medical" models are justified even if they are not really medical treatment, and I think "nonmedical" models do in fact facilitate medical drug use. The categories and the normative relevance thereof are sketchy anyway.)

--- This is not nearly exhaustive. There are many other problems in all the above arguments. But my point is simply that most of them aren't really direct arguments against safe supply itself at all, but rather they tend to distract the conversation on to some adjacent or subsidiary issue. At most, some of them are merely arguments against some forms of safe supply. They're bad arguments too, but my point here is mainly to emphasize what precisely they are and aren't even arguments against.

Anti-safe-supply people constantly shift back and forth between all sorts of wide and narrow arguments, constantly muddying the waters. A clear argumentative framework is required to keep everything straight.

All these topics CAN be debated in good faith. But every topic should be put in perspective, regarding whether it is actually part of the core safe supply arguments or not.

#drugs #drug policy #safe supply #harm reduction #war on drugs

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DULF Ltd. edition regulated drug supply box hoodie

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Recent claims from British Columbia’s BC United Party are misrepresenting the nature of funds received by a BC-based drug user advocacy group Drug User Liberation Front.

DULF was one of many organizations that received funding from Vancouver Coastal Health in 2022. 

BC United issued a press release regarding the funds received by DULF which was itself based on an earlier Global News article about the funding, claiming the BC NDP was helping “organized crime” to “purchase illicit drugs from the dark web.”

[...]

The Global News article claims that they had “obtained documents” regarding the funding, however, those documents are publicly available to everyone on the VCH website.

The article claims DULF received the funding “to operate what the group calls a “’compassion club’ selling heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine.” 

However, experts as well as the government say this claim is off-base.

Full article

This is just straight up stigma about drugs and substance use. Not only are the Global News article and BC United statement full of misinformation, their true goal is to deny funding that goes to support and advocacy for people who use substances.

These people are trying to create a moral panic around people who use drugs to try to deny them support and advocacy, and they aren't even trying to deny their hatred and lack of compassion.

Removing this funding would only increase the already harmful marginalization of people who use substances.

(Commentary from Samira, @politicsofcanada )

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #BC united party #drug stigma #substance use stigma #british columbia #BC #misinformation #fact check #fact checking #vancouver #vancouver coastal health #drug user liberation front #DULF #VCH #drug mention

[seongminiz]

two very different vibes but i’m waiting patiently for dulf coded members and as hybrids 🙏

its ur lucky day then bc i was considering posting those later today !! (i just need to finish doing the laundry n study)

#🍰 seongminiz ! #🧇 crvt !

[matildesimaoblog]

new beginnings

September 13th - 24th

Last spring, I registered for a French semester in Paris. I translated necessary documents, took an entry-level exam while I was in Dublin, booked an Airbnb, and bought a surprisingly cheap TGV ticket.

I arrived on Wednesday, September 13th with two heavy suitcases and intermediate French, which I hadn't practiced since my language stay in Nice last April. To say that it was a struggle to carry my luggage from la Gare de Lyon to the other side of Paris, specifically the 7th arrondissement, might be an understatement. Because I've been to Paris multiple times, I'm familiar with the number of stairs in every metro station. This city's public transport clearly wasn't designed for travelers and little girls like me who don’t have a single strong muscle in their body. Before my departure, I had the fantastic idea to take the bus to my Airbnb because a) there wouldn't be any stairs involved, and b) it would be more affordable than a taxi or an Uber. Although I think the bus journey to my accommodation was easier, I still arrived sweaty and exhausted. So, even though I kind of recommend taking the bus instead of the metro when you arrive in Paris, don't expect it to be effortless.

As I've mentioned, I'm here in Paris to study and improve my French. I chose to do this semester because next year I would like to pursue a Bachelor's degree (une licence) in France, and to do that, I have to have at least a B2 level of French to enter a higher education institution. Currently, I'm studying at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, which offers a variety of diplomas such as the Diplôme Universitaire de Langue Française (DULF) that I'm pursuing.

The evening I arrived, I went grocery shopping. I had to go to 5 different stores because the selection of products was small, and they didn't really have what I wanted. It turns out that not every Carrefour is the same. Apparently, there are different types, such as Carrefour City, Carrefour Express, which is even smaller, and Carrefour Marché, which I later found on Google Maps. Based on my personal grocery shopping experience, I thought the Carrefour Marché in the 6th arrondissement was the best one. They have a wide variety of items. During my first week, I found myself in that grocery store multiple times, and you might think I'm crazy, but I'm convinced that grocery shopping is a new hobby of mine. Is buying food a necessity? Yes. Would a normal human being therefore consider it a hobby? No. But the argument in favor of it being a valid hobby is that I definitely enjoy it more than the average person. So yes, basically, I have a new pastime.

Before my classes began, I had a few days to get some things done. I bought my Navigopass and a French SIM card, which caused me a few issues. Somehow, there was another person using the same French number as me because when I changed my number on WhatsApp, I was added to over twenty random group chats. I figured the only thing I could do was go to the store and explain the situation. Until then, I spent my time deleting a large unnecessary number of group chats with identical names. Like, how many "Paris to Miami" groups do you need?! Eventually, my problem was fixed by simply getting a new number again.

On the weekend, I visited the Musée Rodin, which I hadn't been to before. I was obsessed with the architecture, and besides the multiple statues, they had some incredible paintings. After walking around the museum, I sat in the garden for a while to read and enjoy the quiet. To my surprise, I saw a rat — my second one so far. When I was here in 2020, I had my first experience while walking along the Jardin des Tuileries. I also had the opportunity to visit the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, the most beautiful library I've ever seen, because of the journées européennes du patrimoine that were happening in Paris.

During my first week in Paris, I started to face the reality of being an adult. Having to cook for myself on a daily basis is exhausting. I really don't understand how my parents and other adults I know were able to do it for so long. Furthermore, I'm trying to be financially responsible with my money because I haven't gotten a job yet, and life in Paris is expensive. I think living alone in general is something I'm getting used to. I had a few moments where I felt alone, especially before making friends. Considering the fact that I'm an introvert, I'm not always motivated to be social, which was the case during this first week. But sometimes, it can get lonely. I suppose I'm trying to make new connections, but I should probably still consider that spending time on my own can have a positive effect on my well-being as well.

This is the beginning of a new chapter in my life, which I will try to capture in short videos and almost weekly updates in the form of a blog post. Enjoy!

#blog #paris #new beginnings

[thepercy6andtheradicalsabbatical]

3 hours in Hamburg -

We ended up with about 3 hours to kill in Hamburg before catching our train up to Denmark. Matt and Becca had read about “Minuatur Wunderland” which is apparently a MASSIVE model train set, including a scale model of Hamburg Airport complete with A380 landings among other things. Unfortunately, Matt did not research thoroughly enough in his sleep deprived state that we needed to pre-book entry times online. We were turned away at the door when we tried to buy tickets as no entry slots were available until later that afternoon.We’d happened upon the bike portion of a triathalon en route and again navigated through that course to a nearby playground as a good backup plan. There, Matt hung out and read about burger options (the kids had appropriately requested hamburgers for lunch in Hamburg), kids played, and Becca went on a short run (though not on the triathalon course as Matt had suggested she do). We then went to Hamburg’s #1 rated burger spot: Dulf’s burger, where we scarfed down some delicious burgers (chicken nuggets for Oli) and an “oreo freakshake” for dessert, then made our way back to Hamburg Altona station for our next train. Hamburg seems to be a fairly cool city and is apparently the second largest in Germany, will have to go back sometime to see the Beatles statue we didn’t have time to see (as well as Miniatur Wunderland, of course). Fun fact we learned: Hamburger does indeed originate in Hamburg, but more of just the ground beef patty concept and not necessarily the idea of putting it in a bun.

[myapathyhaspeaked]

walks into the finest italian establishment in my town wearing a dulf (dad you’d like to fuck) shirt (i am a scrawny asexual person with six dollars cash on me)