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UK - Dealers' get drugs tested for FREE in Welsh....initiative to test legal highs

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Dealers' get drugs tested for FREE in Welsh government initiative to test legal highs
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Published 2nd February 2014

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A FREE service set up to test legal highs and save lives is being exploited by drug dealers checking the purity of their gear. The publicly-funded website was created by the Welsh Assembly after calls from the emergency services. They were concerned that many people were taking unknown and often dangerous substances. The site allows users to send in samples to find out what chemicals are in the drugs before they take them.

But dealers have also been using the WEDINOS site – short for Welsh Emerging Drugs and Identification Of Novel Substances Project – which cost £102,000 to set up. Welsh Shadow Minister for Health Darren Millar said: “It’s not just legal highs that this website allows people to test, it’s illegal drugs too. “It’s open to abuse by pushers who can use this as a marketing tool to publicly advertise the purity of their substances and, therefore, increase their prices.”
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http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/lat...lsh-government-initiative-to-test-legal-highs
 
The media always freaks out about dealers using these services for quality control. But, uh, isn't that the point? If dealers sell higher-quality drugs, users will use higher-quality drugs, and the purpose of the program is fulfilled. But I guess anything that helps a dealer has to be really bad! 8)
 
The purpose of prohibition is always to maximise harm to satisfy a puritanical desire to say, "I told you so!".
 
Who cares if dealers are using this tool, which is a carbon copy of ecstacydata.org, in order to test their drugs too?

Are we still having a debate about.. hang on, what is the position of this - people should not know what's in their drugs JUST so we can say "you don't know what's in your illegal drugs!"?

What the fuck is the point of this shit?
 
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