Bless you, erba, your gratitude is touching. I've read with interest the
reactions of some Blulighters reactions to the release of information from
official sources in Australia, in the interests of harm reduction. To my
knowledge, this is not something that is happening all around Australia.
Neither, as it appears some people feel, is it something that people who use drugs are morally entititled to. For the time being, it is something that we should feel lucky to have, and if we continue to be lucky, and don't assume too much, we will continue to have. I don't think we are all that close to having a system where any pill you want analysed will be, with the results available to all-comers. I think you should feel lucky that in the current climate, at least the data on the dangerous / unexpected ones are being released. These results continue to be a privilege, and not a right.
The idea that the politics of this is 'bullshit', rather depends on your
definition of bullshit. If by bullshit you mean frustrating, not evidence-
based, overly-suspicious, even paranoid, then you are probably right. If you are suggesting that it is not real, you couldn't be further from the truth. The politics of drugs policy in Australia hangs on a knife edge at the moment, and to be honest, most Bluelighters haven't the faintest idea what is going on behind the scenes at the moment. The battle lines between politicians and drug experts are very firmly demarcated. I was dismayed to see the posts regarding the Sydney morning Heralds treatment of the Greens drugs policy- misrepresented, they were nevertheless denounced by some of the very people they were designed to protect. I've spent a long time wasting my anger on the people that Australians have chosen to elect in this country, whereas my ire should always have been directed at those politically naive enough to put their mortgage before their morals
All this to say that whatever 'political bullshit' is there, is there because
the majority of Australians, including some Blulighters, must have voted it there.
On a more technical note, LSD is very difficult to quantitate, and the results
will hopefully be published, in due course, when they are available.
Once again- the measures that exist currently do so to prevent harm (and they hang by a thread, and are there because of a MEDICAL demand for them) and those that think that this is not enough and that it should be a system available to facilitate ones' week-end pleasures are pushing their luck in this country at the moment.
Let's just see how this election turns out before we can speculate if even this initiative continues...