Pill testing ‘a success’

THE nation’s first illicit pilltesting trial at Canberra’s Groovin the Moo festival has been deemed a success by drug treatment experts.

In a controversial move, partygoers were able to get their drugs tested by volunteer medical staff and chemical analysts at Sunday’s event.

The STA-Safe consortium received the last-minute goahead to test, with the support of the ACT Government and police in a “big step towards taking back control of the dangerous black market in drugs” the Ted Noffs Foundation said.