There were 14 total hospitalisations across two Sydney festivals yesterday
Pill Testing (Page 3)
One person appeared to have taken up to nine MDMA pills in a day, while another took only one.
Organisers will reportedly face large fines or even jail time if their events are deemed unsafe.
It's been a week since 19-year-old Alex Ross-King died from a drug overdose.
PILL TESTING NOW.
And the team behind the successful Groovin The Moo trial are involved!
"We call on state governments... to untie the hands of promoters."
"Premier, please: can we have this pill testing done?"
36 arrests were made at the event.
"The current policies and strategies of our state and territory governments are needlessly endangering lives."
"We have to put an end to the ignorance of this NSW government! It’s costing lives!"
"People... are quite calculated in the way they are secreting things"
“This doesn’t need to be the summer of festival deaths”
"This is a very distressing incident"
“Your grandkids, your kids will take drugs at festivals. It is going to happen. Would you prefer they know what…
16 others have been hospitalised
"Political parties... stop playing politics with young Tasmanian lives”.
It was apparently too late to sort out the logistics for the testing.
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