Great news. Festivals not my thing but I’ve always been quite impressed with their safety records.
They are great but they do make you give a pretty big chunk to test
This article is a couple of days old, but I still don’t quite understand what the situation is.
Would anybody be able to explain to me what back of house testing is?
I am guessing there will be so much drugs coming into the festival sites, police/security won’t be able to stop it, so they are trying to make people safe when using.
I don’t quite understand the back of the house bit, what goes on there?
People will take drugs regardless of legislation. Reagan’s War on Drugs was a disaster and certainly caused more unnecessary deaths and damage to people while not stopping drugs.
Having a system by which drugs can be made safer at events like this is a great idea. Being able to exchange your drug with some that has been proven to be what it’s supposed to be means you get the drug you wanted and the experience you wanted. Sometimes that might mean your ‘super mega high grade 5*’ stash might be swapped for something more regular but most of the time you’re exchanging bicarb and dishwasher tablets for something without the side effects of brain damage.
If people don’t have access to safe drugs, they’ll take the unsafe route. Look at booze: under 18’s will opt to a litre of cheap vodka and blackout in the streets because the safe alternative isn’t available. See also the current illegal vape hot potato.
I’ve worked many many festivals, including the 4 mentioned here. It’s never a ‘druggy’ in the back of an ambulance, it’s a teenager. Safer regulated drugs are what can stop these kids from permanently damaging themselves for the sake of a good time.
Good.
Not my thing but that’s no reason not to want others to keep safe.
Packed with middle class and fake “working class ” , people get alot of positive tests
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Great news. Festivals not my thing but I’ve always been quite impressed with their safety records.
They are great but they do make you give a pretty big chunk to test
This article is a couple of days old, but I still don’t quite understand what the situation is.
Would anybody be able to explain to me what back of house testing is?
I am guessing there will be so much drugs coming into the festival sites, police/security won’t be able to stop it, so they are trying to make people safe when using.
I don’t quite understand the back of the house bit, what goes on there?
People will take drugs regardless of legislation. Reagan’s War on Drugs was a disaster and certainly caused more unnecessary deaths and damage to people while not stopping drugs.
Having a system by which drugs can be made safer at events like this is a great idea. Being able to exchange your drug with some that has been proven to be what it’s supposed to be means you get the drug you wanted and the experience you wanted. Sometimes that might mean your ‘super mega high grade 5*’ stash might be swapped for something more regular but most of the time you’re exchanging bicarb and dishwasher tablets for something without the side effects of brain damage.
If people don’t have access to safe drugs, they’ll take the unsafe route. Look at booze: under 18’s will opt to a litre of cheap vodka and blackout in the streets because the safe alternative isn’t available. See also the current illegal vape hot potato.
I’ve worked many many festivals, including the 4 mentioned here. It’s never a ‘druggy’ in the back of an ambulance, it’s a teenager. Safer regulated drugs are what can stop these kids from permanently damaging themselves for the sake of a good time.
Good.
Not my thing but that’s no reason not to want others to keep safe.
Packed with middle class and fake “working class ” , people get alot of positive tests