abc.net.au/news/canberra-groovin-the-moo-will-again-be-without-pill-testing/102222462The Groovin the Moo music festival in Canberra will again be without pill-testing after prohibitively expensive insurance premiums forced the service to be scrapped.This month's Canberra Groovin the Moo festival will be without pill-testing despite past successes
"We definitely identified products that were potentially lethal on their own, and definitely in conjunction with other drugs," emergency doctor David Caldicott said.
Newsflash, pill testing won't stop overdose and people's deaths when they take the pure form of these substances. They should be hiking premiums. Pill testing will give a false sense of safety. You have no idea if you are going to od with a tested pill of these illegal drugs
What is it that these doctors are saying to these pill takers that are making them change their mind about taking pills? Are these same words not being said at schools and the like.
Make life safer and we all pay the price. What a discrace
Why would they need insurance? They keep telling us that pill testing solves the problem
Even the providers of this service tell their customers they can’t guarantee safety after testing because unknown substances for which they can’t test for could be present in the drugs. The providers then want to pass this unknown risk onto others who don’t want to take it.
Free The Weed!!
simple send in government workers on a wage with public equipment, a hell of a lot cheaper then the tax money these companies are stealing
Legalisation not only reduces harm by providing access to safe and regulated substances, but also empowers buyers to make informed decisions about their consumption. Portugal's drug policy is a great example of harm reduction in action.
Imagine if an insurance company CEO’s child was hospitalised or worse as pilltesting operators couldn’t operate due to exhorbitant insurance premiums. The irony that pill testing is a harm minimisation measure, seems lost on insurers.
Why use them? All I know this is not a taxpayers responsibility. Time to decriminalise drugs if not legalise some
Insurance companies making shit worse for everybody. What’s new?
there's only so much you can do to protect people from Darwin Awards...
i choose not to take recreational drugs i suggest you do the same make a choice...
Its very easy to avoid dodgy pills without testing them at all.
LOL whoever is writing these tweets needs to stop using speech to text