As GTM mulls legality, researcher says pill testing could save lives

Ahead of a planned pill-testing trial at Groovin the Moo, an Australian academic has highlighted the ineffectiveness of zero-tolerance festival drug policy

News By | 10 April 2018

Fans at Groovin the Moo 2017 © Jack Toohey/Groovin the Moo

On-site festival pill testing, of the kind common in Austria, the Netherlands and, most recently, Britain, could reduce the harm caused by drug use and potentially save festivalgoers’ lives, according to major new review of drug policy out of Australia.

The publication of ‘“Worth the test?” Pragmatism, pill testing and drug policy in Australia’, published in the Harm Reduction Journal today and shared under embargo with IQ, comes as Cattleyard Promotions – the promoter behind Groovin the Moo, one…

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