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2022 Data reveals startling results: Only 57% of tested drugs Matched peoples expectations, with 33% containing other drugs and 12% containing unidentified substances.

Drug checking services will be available at Auckland stadiums for the first time from Friday, following a law change last year. Nearly 295,000 people are expected to attend spring events at Auckland stadiums over the next few months. Having drug checking services available is a logical way to reduce drug harm and help keep people safe.A KnowYourStuff report found that...

Aotearoa, New Zealand permanently legalised drug checking on November 23, by passing a bill to let a pilot program performing the harm reduction service at festivals continue and expand its operations. The new law will take effect December 6.Aotearoa is the first country in the world to have explicitly legal drug checking. Here at MindFuel we welcome this news.Sources: Filter,...

A warning has been issued by New Zealand drug testing organization Know Your Stuff after testing at recent events found more than half of drugs purporting to be MDMA actually contained dangerous cathinones, research chemicals which are often referred to as bath salts. Dubbing this the "summer of cathinones", Know Your Stuff's Dr Jez Weston said there has been a...

The New Zealand Government will urgently legalize pill testing before the summer festival season. Pill testing allows harm reduction organizations to test illicit street drugs at festivals and events so as to tell users what chemical(s) are actually in them, as many illicit street pills that are sold as ecstasy actually contain other substances instead or as well as MDMA,...