Items tagged with new zealand and drug checking

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Drug checking to be permanent after law passes third reading [24.11.2021] Legislation confirming that such services can permanently continue, and expand, passed its third reading - replacing a temporary law that was set to ...
Are your illegal drugs pure? New Zealand will check them for you [09.04.2021] New Zealand has enshrined into law a one-year experiment allowing drug users to have illegal substances tested without penalty to ensure their authen ...
Music festivals are offering to test the safety of people’s drugs, and police increasingly like the idea [04.01.2019] For a long time, authorities at festivals in Australia and elsewhere almost entirely focused on preventing people from taking drugs in the first plac ...
New Zealand embraces pill testing as Australian politicians resist [03.01.2019] As Australian politicians continue to rule out pill testing at music festivals, New Zealand appears to be embracing the controversial practice. The c ...
Police Minister Stuart Nash wants drug testing kits at all music festivals by next summer [02.01.2019] Police Minister Stuart Nash wants to see all New Zealand music festivals kitted out with drug testing kits by next summer. This has been welcomed by ...
New Zealand’s psychoactive substances legislation [31.08.2013] On 11 July 2013, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Psychoactive Substances Act. The legislation enacted a new legal framework for the testing, ma ...

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