It was Easter 2024 when Queensland introduced its first festival drug-testing accompanied by the opening of two fixed-address drug testing units located in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

There is no doubt that drug testing works to reduce risk and save lives. Anonymous drug testing allows people of all ages to check their drugs and ensure that what they have bought is what they expect it to be – and not a deadly combination of drugs that could kill them and their friends. 

The NSW Labor government has announced that they ‘will commence a music festival-based pill testing trial' in early 2025.

Bad drug policy is killing our kids. Why won’t we face the facts? Drug prohibition doesn’t work. In fact, it makes it more dangerous. It creates a lucrative billion-dollar black market, it’s unregulated, and consequently it’s dangerous.

On budget eve the banner ‘Premier, you promised. Drug Summit Now’ was dropped across from NSW Parliament calling on NSW Labor to set a date for the long awaited NSW Drug Summit.

The sun was peeking through the clouds as festival-goers arrived at the Rabbits Eat Lettuce festival in Queensland over the Easter weekend.

As calls for a date to be set for the promised NSW Drug Summit continue many locals questioned the costs involved in the recent cannabis busts taking place that saw loads of marijuana plants being loaded onto police vehicles at the Mullumbimby High School oval yesterday.

Your final day to enrol to vote for the next state election is Monday, March 4 with polling day set for Saturday March 23 – and your vote could make all the difference.

With Greens MP Cate Faehrmann’s admission recently that she has taken illegal substances, what better opportunity to ask the three state election candidates about their own drug use?