Australian Festival Association: Drug policy “endangering lives”

By focusing on drug prohibition instead of harm reduction, Australian politicians are needlessly putting young people at risk, says the newly formed AFA

News By | 9 January 2019

A "dangerous orange pill" was blamed for Joshua Tam's death at Lost Paradise © Jordan Munns for Lost Paradise

The newly formed Australian Festival Association (AFA) has written to government urging urgent drug policy reform following the deaths of several Australian festivalgoers over the Christmas period.

Suspected drug-related fatalities over the festive period – mid-summer in Australia, and the height of its festival season – include a 19-year-old man, Callum Brosnan, at Knockout Games of Destiny in Sydney, a 20-year-old man at Beyond the Valley in Larnder, near Melbourne, and a 22-year-old man, Joshua Tam, at Lost Paradise…

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