We barely have any onsite testing in America, its usually only at festivals and even then it isn’t super visible. It saves lives but it makes it so that zero tolerance law enforcement and elected officials always come out having taken a loss and thus it is only widely available in more tolerant places such as NL.
Good read GL! The lifetime ban from a club is some serious stuff, get caught at a lot of places in America and they just kick you out and keep your drugs for themselves or worst case kick you out and hand you over to a police officer although you’d still probably be welcome at the venue unless you did something ridiculous.
The drop off service is seriously coool. Key to it is that the police DGAF in comparison to stricter countries. Whereas in lots of places they have a good racket going… “drugs kill people” then they do nothing to prevent it and say “look I told you so, such and such died from ecstasy. Shut down the clubs!” Harm reduction makes too much sense, but it is important to still appear tough on drugs or at least not permissive.
Biggest for me is the disconnect that some legal drugs can kill you as well, to quote Kat Williams about aspirin: “take 13 of them motherfuckers and it’ll be your last damn headache”. The quote from the Home Office official “drugs are illegal where there is scientific evidence that they are harmful to health and society”. Well, shit so is Oxycontin and its legal for some people to have, the banning of some drugs that have sister compounds that are legal and probably more harmful is a joke. Zero tolerance doesn’t work, people like party drugs.
