Pill Testing
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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 […]
An ongoing coronial inquest into drug-related deaths at NSW Festivals has been presented new research about Aussie drug use. As The Guardian reports, Criminologist and Dr. Caitlin Hughes presented research from the 2019 Global Drug Survey, which found 79.5% of Aussie punters who attended festivals had taken MDMA in the past 12 months. The survey of […]
Hello and welcome to NSW. The wacky state, where the government seems far more concerned with cracking down on mirror balls than it does with listening to scientific evidence that could actually save lives. Yes, as Premier Gladys Berejiklian et. al. continue their impressive crusade to ignore every last shred of proof that pill testing works, […]
A Coronial Inquest into drug-related deaths at NSW music festivals over summer continued today, with one woman giving testimony about how she was strip searched at a festival. The ABC reports that a young woman who attended Knockout Circuz in 2017 (where 18-year-old Nathan Tran died of an MDMA overdose) was threatened by security unless she admitted […]
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 […]
Music fans from all walks of life are united in support of pill testing, according to Eventbrite’s 2019 Australian Music Fans Report. The report surveyed over 1,130 gig-goers of all ages, and found that 77% were in support of the introduction of pill testing. Participants weighed in on a variety of topics surrounding the live […]
Six people have been taken to hospital suffering suspected drug overdoses following the Midnight Mafia hard style dance festival in Sydney on Saturday night. As Seven reports, the patients are now believed to be in a stable condition, after being transported to hospital from the event at Sydney Olympic Park. Police have charged four people […]
In a totally wild, unpredictable, blindsiding, “never-saw-this-coming” turn of events, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian remains firm in her anti-pill testing stance despite a pill testing trial at Groovin The Moo over the weekend being deemed an “overwhelming success.” In case you missed it, the Canberra leg at Groovin The Moo held a pill testing trial […]
The Canberra leg of Groovin The Moo took place yesterday, and along with it came the second pill testing trial held at the event, run by Pill Testing Australia. Now, the organisation have deemed the trial an “overwhelming success.” The medical service was tested substances for 234 participants, which is over 100 more than last […]
A 19-year-old female punter has brought down the heat on NSW Police after she took to Facebook to air some shocking allegations about being “illegally” strip searched at last week’s Hidden Music Festival. Lucy Moore’s March 5th Facebook post speaking out about the alleged incident went all kinds of viral, racking up over 2.3K shares […]
