HARD Law is a student club at the University of Victoria, Faculty of Law. We started in 2021 as a group of law students who wanted to talk openly and honestly about how people who use drugs like there was a space at UVic to do that, so we made our own.

We are activists, academics, frontline workers, people who use drugs, and people who have quit using drugs. Drug users are our friends and family, both alive and passed. We are directly impacted by drug prohibition, but are also afforded great privilege because of our position as future legal professionals. HARD Law is our attempt to use that privilege for positive change.

Our name comes from two areas of drug policy that we are especially passionate about: 
Harm Reduction and Decriminalization.

 Our goal is to contribute to the broader movement to liberate people who use drugs (“PWUD”) and abolish the systems, institutions, and legal myths that inflict intentional and ongoing violence upon them, and undermine their autonomy, dignity, and power.