Testing services aim to steer people away from fake drugs The Loop
THE war on drugs has become an arms race. In an effort to outpace the law, unregulated laboratories are creating thousands of modified versions of psychedelic substances and selling them to unknowing partygoers.
These chemistry experiments have consequences. Last month, two people died at the Mutiny Festival in Portsmouth, UK, seemingly as a result of taking drugs – festival organisers warned of “a dangerous high-strength or bad-batch substance on site”.
Following the deaths, there have been renewed calls to have drug safety tests on-site at festivals and similar locations,…
