drugs Drug Testing in Festivals

[OneLittleFish]

Knowledge is never a bad thing. Great initiative that will 100% potentially save lives.

[Bonaneas]

5 hours ago, Fladog said:

I'll happily test anyone's drugs free of charge if it helps

Me too. Half the bloody fun is the not knowing what's what.

The only person testing my drugs is the coroner. 

[popcornmaster]

12 minutes ago, Bonaneas said:

Me too. Half the bloody fun is the not knowing what's what.

The only person testing my drugs is the coroner. 

Heavy

[DownlnAlbion]

I can't see it being very popular if they destroy your drugs after. How many folk are going to pay £10 for a pill only for it to be destroyed in a test?

[uscore]

I think the idea is you only test a little bit of it.

 

 

This all feels very familiar.

[___S_o_m_a__]

Royal Society for Public Health calling for drug testing at all festivals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40190590

A shame Glastonbury didn't go for it on suggestion months ago.

[Fork_UK]

On 2017-5-22 at 9:55 PM, DownlnAlbion said:

I can't see it being very popular if they destroy your drugs after. How many folk are going to pay £10 for a pill only for it to be destroyed in a test?

The trick is to buy a few and sacrifice one.  Or even half a one.  

[BambooShanks]

harm reduction is the way forward.  You're not going to stop people from doing drugs, so you may as well make it as safe for them as possible. 

[Upside down frowner]

1 hour ago, Fork_UK said:

The trick is to buy a few and sacrifice one.  Or even half a one.  

Or a dealer has one tested. The results are put out by loop and people find out. Isn't that what happens with the online stuff?

[guypjfreak]

Hello sir I've just smuggled 30 pills in to the festival can you please check them to make sure there good 

I can see that working lol 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

40 minutes ago, Upside down frowner said:

Or a dealer has one tested. The results are put out by loop and people find out. Isn't that what happens with the online stuff?

I believe that the on line stuff works the same way as ebay reviews from satisfied / not satisfied customers. At least that's what I was told. 

[Upside down frowner]

Ive never been on those sites, I was referring to the pill testing companies around Europe. Some are sent by the presser (probably higher than the average) these are posted in various website and word gets out.

 

i would imagine someone carrying a large number to a festival could do the same,

 

Do loop tweet the clean/strong drugs, in the same way they do with dodgy stiff?

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

4 hours ago, Upside down frowner said:

Some are sent by the presser (probably higher than the average) these are posted in various website and word gets out.

 

Oh, I had no idea about this. Apart from this site and a few news sites I don't really regularly access much else on the net. 

[jonodillieono]

9 hours ago, Upside down frowner said:

Ive never been on those sites, I was referring to the pill testing companies around Europe. Some are sent by the presser (probably higher than the average) these are posted in various website and word gets out.

 

i would imagine someone carrying a large number to a festival could do the same,

 

Do loop tweet the clean/strong drugs, in the same way they do with dodgy stiff?

Not as far as I'm aware, sounds like it's just testing for contamination.

Don't think they'd be allowed to mention how strong it is in the UK. It's essentially promoting drugs

[OBface]

39 minutes ago, jonodillieono said:

Not as far as I'm aware, sounds like it's just testing for contamination.

Don't think they'd be allowed to mention how strong it is in the UK. It's essentially promoting drugs

I'm pretty sure I've seen them warn about particularly strong pills before. 

[Mezhyp1]

30 minutes ago, OBface said:

I'm pretty sure I've seen them warn about particularly strong pills before. 

Yep they send out messages when there's dodgy stuff doing around. Which is enormously helpful for people 

[jonodillieono]

5 hours ago, OBface said:

I'm pretty sure I've seen them warn about particularly strong pills before. 

Yeah but I think that's the ones they class as dangerously strong

They don't really post stuff saying its exact strength just warnings