AC,

OK. But it is likely that the pushers will have card machines. I saw a few days ago that a busker had gone digital - swipe instead of tossing a handful of change into the violin case.

Gawd help us.

Foxy,

Are you sure that you are not just indulging in 'conspicuous emoting’?

“Unknowingly….misled into taking the wrong drugs…”.

Are there ‘right’ illegal drugs? Are kids that stupid? Do they not have parents who have told them the danger of taking drugs? Don't they know it is illegal to take drugs? To buy drugs?

These kids are not “losing their lives”; they are killing themselves.

There is “no evidence” that pill testing stops drug taking either.

I have sympathy for parents who lose a child via drugs; for the child - no sympathy at all. Anyone who expects the public to pay for testing of drugs that should not be taken in the first place is condoning drug use. There is no way around that. Whatever happened to being responsible for yourself and your family?

Yep another Government department for pill testing. It must have a female CEO, a diversity Officer, at least one transexual and possibly a straight person. Then we need another Department to see that the drugs that are confiscated will be legally disposed of.

I did a bit of a search on pill testing
services and I think that you may find
the following link of interest. Even though you
may not approve of a female speaking on the matter - however
it still might be worth reading for those who are willing to
be more open-minded on this issue and learn what those with
knowledge and experience on the subject have to say:

http://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/node/301000974

//And if they've already decided were going cashless eventually then they must have a plan in mind for dealing with the issue//

Since they've gone to all the trouble to issue new notes, I'm assuming they haven't decided we're going cashless yet.

//OK. But it is likely that the pushers will have card machines.//

Dealers with eftpos? Yeah, that seems unlikely.

////There is “no evidence” that pill testing stops drug taking either.//

It's not intended to stop drug taking. Pill testing is based on the self-evident fact that no matter how many times you tell some people 'just say no', they'll still do drugs. People, in general, like to get high. If you could actually ban all the drugs (alcohol too) and make it work, people just would spin around in circles until they got dizzy... it's human nature.

So rather than trying to aim for some impossible utopian fantasy but constantly falling short due to it being impossible, some people feel that it is better to aim for more realistic and achievable goals like reducing the amount of toxic compounds ingested alongside the drugs themselves. Some dealers cut with cornflour; some with drain cleaner.

I'd have thought not swallowing unidentified pills & or substances would be the safest way to go about this.
We need to stop interfering with natural remedies, the genepool will sort itself.