Drug Testing
Hobart City Council has given the green light to introduce pill testing at music festivals and other major events in the Tassie capital. As The Mercury reports, Councillor Holly Ewin’s motion calling on the state government to “commence the necessary action to facilitate” a pill testing trial was voted in by a 6:9 majority. Their […]
The first two days of a Coronial Inquest into drug-related deaths at NSW music festivals over summer have yielded some disturbing revelations. To start with, the court heard yesterday that Central Coast teenager Alex Ross King’s fatal overdose at Sydney’s FOMO festival back in January was tragically avoidable, with her friends saying the 19-year-old panic-swallowed […]
Anti-lockouts activist group turned bonafide political party Keep Sydney Open are chucking one of their trademark rallies to demand action on pill-testing, following a string of recent festival deaths. “We have to put an end to the ignorance of this NSW government! It’s costing lives!” organisers wrote in an Instagram post announcing the move. The […]
The national campaign for drug law reform, Take Control, is pleading with the NSW Government to make music festivals safer by reconsidering their staunch opposition to pill-testing, following yet another tragedy this weekend. A young man died and two other people have been hospitalised after taking an “unknown substance” at the Central Coast’s Lost Paradise Festival […]
Tragedy has struck at Lost Paradise Festival on the NSW Central Coast, where a young man has died and two other people have been hospitalised after ingesting an “unknown substance”. A 22-year-old man from Queensland was rushed to Gosford Hospital at around 8pm on Saturday but died a short time later, while a man and […]
Ya boi Osher Günsberg (FKA Andrew G) has just gone on the telly to take a wrecking ball to the arguments against pill-testing. As all rational, progressive thinkers already know (because of, you know, the scientific evidence) pill-testing saves lives. However, as we also know, the vast majority of geriatric conservatives who unfortunately still occupy […]
A 19-year-old man has died and three other people are in a critical condition in hospital following suspected drug overdoses at a hard styles festival at Sydney Olympic Park on Saturday night. Police say the teenager from Baulkham Hills was found at a train station near the Knockout Games of Destiny event — billed as […]
The creative director of Tasmania’s Dark Mofo festival has thrown his weight behind pill testing. As the state’s politicians continue to debate whether or not the life-saving drug analysis measures should be made legal, Leigh Carmichael has issued a call to all political parties to “stop playing politics with young Tasmanian lives”. “Everyone wants to […]
Premier Gladys Berejilkian, the NSW liberal leader so nanny state that she literally refers to her adult constituents as “kids”, thinks pill-testing is bad. So much so that her party has threatened to shut down every music festival in the state before they’d even consider allowing the proven-to-be-lifesaving measures to be trialled. So naturally, her […]
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