Are Your Illegal Drugs Pure? New Zealand Will Check Them for You.
A law will allow controlled substances to be tested without penalty to ensure their authenticity. The goals are to reduce health risks and, perhaps, change users’ behavior.
New Zealand has enacted the Drug Checking Act after a one-year pilot program found that contaminants were common in illegal drugs. Credit.U.S. Customs/Newsmakers, via Getty Images
April 9, 2021Updated 7:04 a.m. ET
AUCKLAND, New Zealand New Zealand has enshrined into law a one-year experiment allowing drug users to have illegal substances tested without penalty to ensure their authenticity and to weed out dangerous chemicals.
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After a quiet spell in the news on account of, well, other stories, cannabis and what to do about it staged a modest headline revival this week. First there was this Stuff report on a journal article by Massey University researchers Marta Rychert and Chris Wilkins on how the cannabis referendum campaign unfolded.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s decision not to reveal her position on the cannabis debate during election campaigning could have been a decisive factor in last year’s referendum, academics believe.
The article in the
Drug and Alcohol Review isn t freely available, but I ve read it – and the headline claim, quoted accurately from article s abstract, isn t really backed up in the text, which declares only that Labour s decision not to campaign on the referendum (a Green Party policy) and Ardern s decision not to declare her vote (a yes ) in advance added to the volatility of the vote. That s it.
The app young Kiwis are buying and selling drugs on
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New Zealand police are investigating online apps where Kiwis are buying and selling illicit products and services. Katie Harris looks into the dark side of messaging app Discord.
The private groups are invite-only.
Under the guise of a standard messaging app, but often used for more sinister purposes, Discord has slipped its way into the millennial lexicon and shows no signs of going away.
It allows users to buy and sell drugs without disclosing their names and details, and all at speeds that some users say is faster than Uber.
The chat app young Kiwis are buying and selling drugs on
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multimedia journalist at the Herald in Wellington@katieharrisnz
New Zealand police are investigating online apps where Kiwis are buying and selling illicit products and services. Katie Harris looks into the dark side of messaging App Discord.
The private groups are invite-only.
Under the guise of a standard messaging app, but often used for more sinister purposes, Discord has slipped its way into the millennial lexicon and shows no signs of going away.