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| File image of various ecstasy pills |
A man has died and six others have been
hospitalised after suffering medical episodes at yesterday's Dreamstate
music festival in Sydney. Drug overdoses are suspected but no official
diagnosis has emerged so-far. Some online chatter suggests the problem was high-dose MDMA pills containing another chemical. News reports do not mention that any
drug-testing services were available at the event. By contrast, three
testing stations are being provided at today's Laneways festival as
recommended by the NSW Government's drugs summit last year. Premier
Chris Minns has expressed opposition to drug testing because it "sends
the wrong message". I guess people dying needlessly must be "the right
message". As usual, no news reports mention the ultimate cause of this
carnage: the failed ideology of prohibition.
