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Police arrest man operating mobile hard drugs store in Vancouver
cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and MDMA.Drug user advocate Jerry Martin opened the shop, based out of a mobile trailer, Wednesday evening in the city’s Downtown Eastside.In an interview with Global News, he said ‘The Drugs Store’ was selling drugs tested for fentanyl in an effort to provide safe supply and reduce overdoses.“Just for someone buying their drugs, this is a lot safer. People have to go through many things to get their drugs — you could get robbed in an alley and many women get abused,” he told Global News on Wednesday.“It’s also going to stop a lot of the overdoses as people don’t even know what they are getting (typically).