Wendy Allison

Politics
Jan 3, 2019

Summer reissue: Festival season, where dodgy drugs thrive thanks to a dumb law

Why drug laws need to change to help people find out what is in the substances they plan to consume, and avoid causing themselves enormous harm.

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Politics
Oct 25, 2018

Here comes festival season, where dodgy drugs thrive thanks to a dumb law

With the festival season just around the corner, drug laws need to change to help people avoid consuming substances that will cause enormous harm

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Society
Jan 10, 2018

There's some strong ecstasy going around, so we need to make pill testing easy

A surprisingly strong batch of MDMA has arrived on our fair shores. We know people are going to take it, so Wendy Allison, founder of pill testing organisation KnowYourStuffNZ, says we need to make harm reduction easier.

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