VICEさんのインスタグラム写真 - (VICEInstagram)「Drugs have been a fixture at festivals since Jimi Hendrix took to the stage at Monterey in front of 50,000 people tripping on acid. Despite our drug laws, people continue to use drugs in their droves – particularly during festival season – so should we not provide them with the tools to use them as safely as possible?⁠ ⁠ This is the argument of Sacha Lord (@sacha_lord), co-creator of the UK’s Parklife Festival and The Warehouse Project nightclub, who’s threatening legal action against the UK government for blocking onsite drug testing at festivals. For over a decade, certain UK festivals have conducted pop-up back-of-house drugs testing, allowing them to issue alerts about bad batches of MDMA, cocaine cut with anti-malaria medication, wildly strong ecstasy pills, or whatever they fear could put people’s health at risk.⁠ ⁠ All of this has been done with the cooperation of local police and authorities – and evidence suggests that festivals see a 10 to 25 percent reduction in drug-related harm when testing is conducted onsite. But this year, the British government said controlled drug licenses can only be granted if festivals have a permanent onsite structure for testing, as opposed to the tents they've previously been using. Which is obviously a bit of an issue, given very few festivals have any permanent structures onsite.⁠ ⁠ On TikTok, Lord directed a message to the UK’s Home Secretary, Suella Braverman: “If there are any drug related deaths at festivals this summer that we think could have been prevented by drugs testing, well, blood on your hands.”⁠ ⁠ In another video, he added: “If it saves one life, it’s worth doing.”⁠ ⁠ Read about all the weird stuff discovered by onsite drug testers at a UK festival at the link in bio.」8月30日 1時21分