The big bag of meth will get weighed out into individual doses and put into tiny cardboard boxes, labeled with its contents, purity, and the logo of Dulf – the Drug User Liberation Front.

The office’s location is not on any maps or findable by any search engines, but it is not exactly secret. Vancouver’s government, the cops, drug users and maybe even dealers all know where it is, and it turns out that has been pretty much fine, despite the fact that the people inside it are buying and selling felony-level quantities of drugs every week.

Such is life in Vancouver, where the drug problem has been so bad for so long that the authorities here have, reluctantly and with a lot of pressure, begun to allow for a kind of radical experimentation not really going on anywhere else.

She envisions a future in which heroin and every other drug are handled similarly to alcohol: regulated, free from impurities, legal and available to the public. She does not see any other way out of the crisis. Everything else people have tried has simply not worked.

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