Just another shitty HS article
Plan for ravers to test drug quality
12nov04
A PROPOSAL to enable people at rave parties to test illicit drugs for purity is to be examined by health officials.
The ministerial council on drug strategy, meeting in Brisbane today, established a working group of officials from government and the Australian National Council on Drugs to report on the issue and formulate a national policy.
However such a proposal is unlikely to get federal government backing.
Under recent proposals backed by the Australian Drug Foundation, revellers would be able to have their drugs, including ecstasy, tested for purity before being given them back.
If the plan went ahead, doctors would advise drug users whether their pills, which cost about $35 on the black market, contain deadly ingredients.
Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Christopher Pyne, raised the issue at today's meeting of health and police ministers saying the government's "Tough on Drugs" policy was about keeping drugs off the streets.
"Obviously to allow people to test for drugs at rave parties sends entirely the wrong message to young people about the harmful impacts of illicit drugs," Mr Pyne told journalists.
"There is no possibility of making illicit drugs safe for use.
"The message from the Commonwealth is that illicit drugs are illegal, harmful, dangerous.
"They always will be. They shouldn't be taken. To test these drugs at parties, hand them back to the party-goers and say: `Yes, they're safe to take' sends the message to those young people that in fact these drugs are okay to take when they're not."
To test these drugs at parties, hand them back to the party-goers and say: `Yes, they're safe to take'
No one said this you fucking fucktard (continue entering explitives)... You all know where I'm going with this quote and I'm too lazy to go on about it...
(ie look at the writing at the bottom of every BL page...)