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He said it is something the government “can move forward with.”
“I think people appreciate that it’s not about changing the legal framework for those individual drugs. It’s about saying that there is evidence abroad that regimes like that save lives, and who would we be to turn away from that.”
It means that festival goers will be able to legally verify if the substances are mixed with something unexpected.
Know Your Stuff CEO Wendy Allison said it is “definitely good news” that this regime could be legalized.
“We have been working on this for a long time and we are aware that the government would have preferred to do it last year, but it was blocked by New Zealand First,” he said.
It is currently a criminal offense to allow a venue to be used for drug use, so any event that provides drug evidence could be subject to prosecution.
Know Your Stuff currently offers a free service that operates under a gray legal area.
“We tell people what’s in their sample and once they know they can do a better risk assessment of what they’re about to do. And people often decide not to do it once they realize that they are about to take is not what they thought it was going to be, “Allison said.
Ardern admitted that she’s not sure if it will be released in time for this year’s festival season.
“That’s something the state would have to look at right now. In fact, we found a job that allowed some of that to still happen in the last festival season and so I imagine we could at least have some way of she “.
