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One drug advocate is asking Canadians to mail him their street drugs to find out how fatal they are — even though it’s illegal.

So far, at least 25 people, three of whom are from Toronto, have sent in samples of cocaine, MDMA (ecstasy), CBD and fentanyl.

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Dana Larsen, director of the Vancouver Dispensary Society, is the man leading the Canada-wide effort and says it’s more important than “following the law.”

“I want to help save lives, I want people to be informed and I wish they could buy clean, pre-tested drugs,” he told the National Post in a telephone interview.

“The whole war on drug users is a genocide of the poor.”

Mark Haden, an adjunct professor of the faculty of medicine at the University of British Columbia, says this testing also puts pressure on drug dealers.

“This could create a level of accountability, the idea that drug sellers would start to realize their customers are holding them accountable and saying ‘Look, that’s not good, here’s the proof’,” Haden said in a telephone phone interview.