Good point Josephus. The same applies to alcohol. That effects different people indifferent ways, from the ones who 'can hold their liquor' to 'one-pot screamers'.

Wouldn't the point be to get people off drugs instead of making drugs "safe"?
Would "safe" drugs still be an offense when driving ?
It's just can of worms opened after can of worms. We need solutions to instil a better mentality. This can not be achieved with perpetual side-stepping of responsibilities & this is what all this is about. The sooner we can people to accept some responsibility the sooner they can rebuild their natural common sense & give unknown substances a big wide berth.

individual you would think so
While it may have changed Australian truck drivers once took a truck load of drugs, between them, every week
We did not socially isolate them, we did not try to stop them
The money to be made selling them the drugs was one reason
The extra long hours they drove [extra loads extra profits] the other

No Billy. Individual is right.

Promoting drugs in the way that pill stations would promote them only encourages their use and sale. If the goal isn't to get rid of the drugs, then the program is deeply flawed and shouldn't be supported.

This isn't about isolating people, but to not encourage more drugs. Drug overdoses are already an issue that likely is part of the cause of the deaths at music festivals. How much worse will it be when more people think their pill is "safe" and they take several.

Go back to your previous stance to get after the drug dealers, pushers, and suppliers. That was something to support. Encouraging more illegal drug use? Tose that with the safe pills stations.

//Promoting drugs in the way that pill stations would promote them only encourages their use and sale.//

Pill testing stations don't promote drugs, you drongo. They perform chemical analyses, not PR.

//If the goal isn't to get rid of the drugs//

Yeah, did you read what I said before about 'impossible utopian fantasies'. We've been trying to get rid of the drugs for the better part of the last century, nothing has worked. The war on drugs has been a miserable failure whose biggest success has been in lining the pockets of drug lords. A bit of an own goal, really.

//Drug overdoses are already an issue that likely is part of the cause of the deaths at music festivals.//

Yes, that's because people don't know the purity of the drugs they're taking. They don't come in nice little boxes with the dose of active ingredient per pill printed on the side. That's something pill testing can help with.

//How much worse will it be when more people think their pill is "safe" and they take several.//

Jesus, you can't really be that thick...

Tell me, NNS, when you have a particularly bad headache do you take a whole punch of paracetamol all at once, because they're 'safe'? Of course not; you take the recommended dosage because taking a whole bunch of 'safe' paracetamol tablets is, in fact, extremely unsafe.

Sola dosis facit venenum, NNS. I suspect most recreational drug users are bright enough to figure that one out.

Taking a drug for a headache is different because you only want enough to relieve the headache. Taking a drug for getting high? Yeah that isn't near the same reason, and popping a few more is just as likely as a drunk not knowing when to quit drinking.

As for the last few replies Toni, the only one that I thought were worth while was about the costs. I didn't have much to add to it, so I didn't reply. It's something I'm trying out for a few posters. (Yourself included). Only reply if they say something worthwhile. Otherwise let the conversation go a different direction or just end if no one else is commited to the discussion.