Dana Larsen

Dana Larsen: Calgary cops forced to perform orgasms in public According to a Vancouver writer and drug-policy reform advocate, the whole concept of police vice squads is a relic from the past and should be set aside.

Been going on for years. Read this awful report about Calgary cop sexual abusers from 2020.

www.straight.com/news/dana-la...

Must be very challenging to translate Joyce into any language, especially Chinese.

What’s at Stake During DULF’s Constitutional Challenge | The Tyee The case’s outcome could affect the founders’ criminal charges, and Canadian drug laws. A Tyee explainer.

great explainer on how dulf's constitutional challenge works, how it could change canada's drug laws, and what happened the first week in court.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Cocaine and coca leaf should be completely legal in the same way as caffeine and coffee beans are.

If this was the case, snorting cocaine would be about as popular as snorting caffeine is today.

Prohibition itself causes and worsens all the problems it claims to be solving.

"Access to involuntary care" is an Orwellian euphemism.

Eby knows this is morally and medically wrong-headed, and he's doing it solely for political reasons.

If they can murder alleged drug smugglers in the ocean, they can murder alleged drug dealers on the street.

It's time to acknowledge that the "drug war" causes and worsens all the harms it claims to prevent.

#nomoredrugwar #endprohibition

I am going to repeat this forever: Supply-side crackdowns on drug use are useless, even fatal. They move addicts toward more dangerous substances, they create incentives for dealers to cut other drugs with the more dangerous substances (Xanax cut with whatever) so more casual users die, too.

Wonder how many years we have left of unleaded gasoline before there's a movement to put the lead back in

Does anyone check if these numbers are accurate? My experience is that the cops weigh all the packaging and containers and add that to the total.

If the progressive parties don't unite together we're going to lose another election to the ABC. We need one big tent, not several small isolated silos.

5 MINUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF WHEEL bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is a wheel, turning round and round, an endless cycle of seasons and lives and realms--it all keeps turning, and it all keeps coming back around 5 MINUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF BOOKS bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is a book, God is The Author of Being and he writes our names in the Book of Life. In the beginning was THE WORD, bro. You see bro?? 5 MiNUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF COMPLEX GEARS bro, literally tho bro, the whole world is mechanical, God is The Divine Watchmaker, and the planets spin along predetermined paths according to the turning of cosmic gears! It's all just predictable mechanical paths from creation to here! 5 MiNUTES AFTER iNVENTION OF COMPUTERS bro, i think i just figured something out-

A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.

The case is scheduled for the next two weeks and then one TBD week in 2026, likely happening in January or March.

I'll wrap with Nyx: "I've watched my coworkers die on the ground, friends die who leave behind children. This is gutting my community, killing everyone I know... If you're subject to this over and over again it becomes routine... for 10 years been screaming for help... that's fallen on deaf ears."

Importantly — and this was stressed in friggen heartbreaking testimony — they were doing this while their friends, family and community members were dying in horrific, horrific numbers. The trauma they experienced/continue to experience is very clear. The crisis is continuing, 5 ppl/ day are dying.

Nyx and Kalicum are refuting this and arguing that they did everything they could at the time. Small errors in the study? They were learning how to write academic papers on the fly. Small flaws in communication with Health Canada? They're not lawyers and presented the info the best they could.

DULF lawyers are arguing shutting down the compassion club violates member's Charter Rights under section 7 (right to life, liberty and security) and section 15 (right to be treated equally under the law). Basically closing DULF puts marginalized folks at high risk of OD and death.

On Oct. 25, 2023 Nyx and Kalicum were arrested and charged with trafficking. On Nov. 7, 2025 they were found guilty of trafficking with intent to distribute.
That lets them issue a charter challenge of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which they did. That's why they're in court right now.

DULF tried to work with almost every level of gov, asking Health Canada to give them permission to buy, test and distribute drugs (denied), the province to give them permission to test drugs and run an OPS (granted), and for support from police (grey area, some officers said initiative was helpful)

DULF was collecting donations (legal) and buying heroin, cocaine and meth off the dark web (illegal). Once they had the drugs Vancouver Coastal Health worked with them to help rigorously test the drugs and label the drugs (legal), and DULF would sell the drugs at cost to members (illegal).

This club sold to 47 adult members and it seemed to work. After one year of operation members reported fewer overdoses, incidents with police, hospital visits, crime. There were no deaths.
Having a dedicated source of known potency and purity seemed to help stabilize people.

Background: More than 18,600 BCers have been killed by unregulated drugs since 2014. The gov has tried some harm reduction but thousands have still died. DULF decided to break drug laws, which they say were unjust, to provide pure, labelled drugs to high-risk users in a compassion club.

Been covering DULF's constitutional challenge for @thetyee.ca this week. Crown prosecutors have tried to poke lots of small holes in what founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were doing. Nyx and Kalicum have largely defended themselves saying they were doing the best they knew how at the time.

We are repelled by the opium habit not because it is harmful, but the other way around: we regard it as harmful in order to maintain our justification for prohibiting it.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Donald Trump didn't kill himself.

(Trying to get in early on this one before the rush starts.)

Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply

"Enjoy your marijuana my friends." -Dana Larsen, 2025

Some folks like a little weed,
some folks like a lot.
Some prefer a giant dab,
and some just don't smoke pot.

Stronger weed or weaker weed,
it doesn't really matter.
If your joint ain't strong enough,
just roll a little fatter.

22/22

"Archeologists find cannabis use 2500 years ago in China. The discovery at a prehistoric burial site suggests the cannabis plants were selected for greater potency." - Washington Post, 2019

Humans have been getting high
all way back through history.
We've always grown great ganja crops
of high-grade potency!

The truth is that the herb these days
is basically the same.
The pushers of the too-potent pot propaganda
are really just playing a game.

21/22

"Samples of hash oil analyzed so far have run as high as 90% THC." - DEA analyst, 1974

Plus we can't forget about
the hashish and extracts.
There's always been potent concentrates
and those are just the facts.

People have puffed on potent pot
for a couple of thousand years.
People who pretend potent pot is new
are promoting baseless fears.

20/22

"Potency inflation runs rampant in cannabis industry testing, despite measures to combat it." - Forbes, 2022

The strength of each has not changed much
since they began to track,
But seeded weed's less strong by weight,
and they're seizing less of that!

So it's not that the weed is stronger now,
the good stuff's still the same,
There's just less low-grade weed around,
and that is not a shame!

19/22