OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[JokerEel]

I obviously have strong feelings on this matter because I go to a lot of festivals and I see kids passed out on the ground at 3 PM and the festivals go until 11 PM.

I swear some of these kids are 15 or 16 and they can't be drunk as you have to show your ID to get in and if you're over 18 you get a green wrist band which means you can be served alcohol, and these kids passed out on the ground don't have one.

Something had to be done and I'm glad they have approved pill testing as making them illegal does not work much like prohibition never worked.

Mate it's good they are doing something about it for those kids that need to take drugs...

Like I have made my point as a parent my kids don't need that at all as they know they shouldn't take drugs.

If it stops parents burying their kids great! They cancelled the festivals out here at the regatta centre because of kids dying imagine if they had tested...

 

[Twizzle]

do you think kids can sneak in/take drugs to a festival but not alcohol?

they sneak in both but its hard to sneak in enough alcohol to cause some one to pass out,

the old tape the flask to the thigh trick is used regularly as when you get inside you see a lot of the kids head straight to the toilets and when you get inside there is tape all over the floor

it can be detected in a body search but the security guys are not allowed to do that, they only ask everyone to turn their pockets out before they go in

 

[Twizzle]

If it stops parents burying their kids great! They cancelled the festivals out here at the regatta centre because of kids dying imagine if they had tested...

exactly my point, those kids could still be alive

 

[Incorrect]

where ? there are no such facilities in the communities

Well thats f**ked then.... Maybe until the testing is set up these people should accept some personal responsibility and abstain. And if they can't because they're addicted maybe get some professional help which might help steer them away from these illegal substances and then pill testing becomes a moot topic....

 

[JokerEel]

debating the issue at hand

Cmon quote the whole post if debating the issue at hand is what you are good at

 

[Twizzle]

Well thats f**ked then.... Maybe until the testing is set up these people should accept some personal responsibility and abstain. And if they can't because they're addicted maybe get some professional help which might help steer them away from these illegal substances and then pill testing becomes a moot topic....

there is one at the cross run by volunteers but like I said, none in the communities

I've never taken X or the like but I don't believe it's addictive, no more than say you or I having too much to drink at an outing

again I draw the comparison with prohibition, it didn't work and yes some people need help

 

[bazza]

they sneak in both but its hard to sneak in enough alcohol to cause some one to pass out,

the old tape the flask to the thigh trick is used regularly as when you get inside you see a lot of the kids head straight to the toilets and when you get inside there is tape all over the floor

it can be detected in a body search but the security guys are not allowed to do that, they only ask everyone to turn their pockets out before they go in

can also drink before you go in