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DRUGS

Watch: The Government last year rushed through legislation that allowed recreational drugs to be legally tested at summer festivals.
Drugs

'Hallucinations and psychosis': Fake ecstasy rife at New Year festivals

Hundreds of New Year festival goers are reporting painful and serious side effects after taking a drug they thought was MDMA.

synthetic cannabis
Drugs

Friends left synthetic cannabis user left on floor to die - coroner

She believed his life could have been saved if he had been taken to hospital.

Watch: Massive increase of dangerous, fake MDMA pills in NZ worries experts.
Drugs

'This season is very different': Massive increase in dangerous, fake MDMA pills in NZ worries experts

"We are seeing a hell of a lot of cathinones."

Watch: The Government is rushing through legislation that will allow recreational drugs to be legally tested at summer festivals.
Drugs

Warning to festival-goers: MDMA increasingly found to contain bath salts

"This could be the case nationwide."

Watch: The Government is rushing through legislation that will allow recreational drugs to be legally tested at summer festivals.
Drugs

What drug testing will look like for festival-goers this summer

Drug testing is legal - for the moment - so what can New Years' revellers expect?

Know Your Stuff says drug testing legislation has come to late for summer as more testing equipment wont arrive in time.
Drugs

Pill testing law 'too late to make any difference' - drug-checking organisation

The organisation says it's too late and won't allow for time to order enough testing equipment.

Simon Bridges and David Parker on The AM Show.
Drugs

Simon Bridges claims festival drug-testing will result in more deaths - but experts disagree

Academics who've studied the effect of pill-testing and the testing bodies say it's saving lives.

The drug is having a damaging effect on our community.
Drugs

Police warn of dangers of GBL as volume of drug seized increases

The drug is having a damaging effect on our community.

Watch: Medicinal cannabis industry still full of misinformed perception, over-regulation - experts.
Drugs

Cannabis-based medicines with just CBD don't impair driving - study

The study also found the effects of THC wear off pretty quickly.

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