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Pill testing every weekend ‘next step’ to reduce harm, Rattenbury says
Pill testing could be expanded beyond festival-goers in the ACT and offered every Friday and Saturday night in Civic, ACT Greens leader Shane Rattenbury has proposed. […]
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The Greens’ ‘Sniff Off’ campaign to be present at the Yours and Owls music festival this weekend
The Greens are continuing their attack on the police’s drug dog program, as the party takes its ‘Sniff Off’ campaign to this weekend’s Yours and Owls music festival. […]
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Regulation – the responsible control of drugs
This new report provides a practical roadmap that tackles the real implications and recognizes the difficulties of transitioning from illegal to legally regulated drug markets. It offers concrete answers regarding the organizational capacity of state institutions to regulate and control a legal market of potentially dangerous products. It highlights the…
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Trump’s Terrible, No Good Plan to Gin Up a Worldwide Drug War
The world need not leave global drug policy to the tender mercies of Donald Trump. In fact, it would be better off listening to one of the men who will address the Monday meeting: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. As president of Portugal, Guterres oversaw that country’s groundbreaking decriminalization of drug…
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NCA’s decision on pill testing betrays public trust
The NCA’s willingness to potentially endanger the health and well-being of the community it supposedly serves is a betrayal of trust. The federal government’s complicity in allowing such a decision to stand, without evening engaging the medical and health professionals providing the pill-testing service, speaks to the lack of due…
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Former Australian Federal Police Commissioner has come out in support of pill testing
Palmer has come out firing at the government and Premier in particular saying “My mind boggles at the thought that a government is not even prepared to start a trial of pill testing. Clearly she and other state premiers opposing the idea do not have the courage to say what…
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Amnesty bins and pill testing: Greens hold summit on festival policing
Representatives from the music industry, policing, and drug and harm minimisation experts were present at the talks to discuss how to keep people safe at festivals. […]
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Pill testing debate needs to be ‘less divisive, more decisive’: festival organisers
“Harm minimisation is dealt with as a law enforcement issue in this country and state, whereas when you look overseas it’s dealt with as a health issue, so that is where the conversation needs to go,” Mothership Event’s Justin Nyker said. […]
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Aussie Festivals & Musicians Urge NSW Premier Not To Shut Down Events, Following Defqon.1 Deaths
An Australian-first pill testing trial took place at the Canberra leg of Groovin The Moo in April, with the program’s final report deeming the trial an “overwhelming success”. In August, a $100,000 fundraiser was also launched to help support the roll out of pill testing programs at more Australian music festivals,…
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As War on Drugs Again Declared Failure, Trump’s UN Event Dismissed as ‘Splashy’ Backward-Thinking Photo Op
“President Trump is the last person who should be defining the global debate on drug policy,” says one expert. “Trump has shown complete disdain for human rights and international law.” […]