And they have a vote.......
As long as the organisers of the event pays for the pill testing fine. However what happens when a test comes back ok but the person still dies because of how their body reacts who will get the blame? The stuff is illegal for a reason
Play silly games, Win silly prizes!
Another one bites the dust
There will always be some people who choose illegal drugs, it’s called natural selection. No to pill testing.
So in other words police searches cause kids to die at music festivals because they freak.out and take all their drugs at once. Well done nsw police first killing another kid at a music festival.
Wow, this hard line on drugs is really working, isn’t it? I mean it’s been many decades now and drug use is in no way declining. It’s time for testing to be available either somewhere safe prior to (DIY) or at events. More deaths can be avoided.
Should be an automatic 5k fine if your found with drugs on ya - watch the epidemic disappear
Oh well...
37% of those that were searched had drugs. Big number in terms of percentage. However they only searched 1.2% of total attendees. If the powers that be believe police searches are the way to stop drugs at festivals, they need to up their numbers by a multiple of least 80! FOMO
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Young woman dies from suspected overdose at Sydney's FOMO music festival | Sky News AustraliaA young woman has died from a suspected drug overdose after attending a music festival in Sydney's west.\n\nThe 19-year-old girl was rushed from the FOMO festival in Parramatta to nearby Westmead Hospital last night, where she later died.\n\nPolice searched 146 people at the event and found 54 people in possession of drugs.\n\nIt stands as the fifth drug-related death at a festival in the past six months.\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia sad We need to be told how many people die from drug overdoses each day who are not at festivals to be able to make sense of this. This is what happens when there is a blanket ‘just say no’ policy on drugs. Pill testing = chance to educate = harm reduction = less people od’ing or dying. imho
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