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Britain’s first ever city centre recreational drug testing facility opens in Bristol
The UK’s first ever drug safety testing facility has opened following successful pilots at several British music festivals. The pop-up lab, which was set up this weekend in Bristol, is able to test the strength and quality of drugs provided to it by users. […]
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The road to Australia’s first pill testing trial
This is a significant step forward in our approach to drug law reform—now we’ve shown that pill testing in Australia can be as successful as evidence from overseas indicated, we hope to see it implemented across the country without delay. […]
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To minimise harm, drug prohibition must end
The recent pill testing trial at the Groovin’ the Moo music festival demonstrated why pill testing is an effective harm minimisation activity but also why we need to end drug prohibition in Australia and to effectively regulate the quality and supply of drugs here. […]
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Opinion: Nothing straightforward about festival pill testing
While it might not be for everyone, you can rest assured there is a group of people quietly relieved about Canberra’s brave trial – the two revelers whose drugs tested positive for harmful substances, and their families. […]
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AMA Tasmania pushes for our own pill testing
The Australian Medical Association Tasmanian president Stuart Day said a number of harm minimisation policies are needed when it comes to illicit drugs, including “needle exchanges, pill testing, and degrees of decriminalisation for some drugs”. […]
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Pill Testing: Governments Need to Support More Trials
Harm Reduction Australia and Family Drug Support are calling on all Governments (Federal, State & Territory) to immediately reconsider their positions on pill testing and support further trials around the country. Pill Testing Media Release 1 May 2018 […]
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Australia should tax and regulate cannabis, not prohibit it
The harms resulting from cannabis prohibition are far greater than the harms resulting from cannabis itself as former US president Jimmy Carter observed: “Penalties against the use of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of a drug itself; and where they are they…
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Greens propose full legalisation of cannabis
The policy is the first time a party with significant federal representation has backed full legalisation, providing a point of difference with the Coalition and Labor, which both support a scheme initiated in 2016 to legalise cannabis for medicinal use only. […]
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Greens want cannabis to be made legal
The Greens say cannabis should be legalised and sold in plain packaging, with its wholesale distribution monopolised by a new government agency. The controversial policy, released by Greens leader Richard Di Natale on Monday, would ban sale to people under 18, prohibit advertising, and use tax revenue collected for drug…
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United Nations Chief calls for the decriminalization of all drugs
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, openly defied the main drug control body at the UN this week in a speech which promoted the decriminalization of all drugs. His remarks countered the organization’s top narcotics officials who released a report earlier in the week criticizing marijuana legalization efforts…
