BACKSTAGE at many of Britain’s summer music festivals, suspicious pills and powders seized from tents are analysed by lab technicians. Usually it is to advise on-site doctors and police on what symptoms to look out for in people who become unwell. But this year, for the first time, festival-goers have been given the chance to get their illegal drugs tested before they take them.
Britain | Drug-testing at music festivals
Cocaine or concrete?
Revellers get the chance to see if their illegal drugs are what they claim to be
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