UK Music Festival Organizers Want Attendees To Test Their Drugs On Site

If you are planning on attending Leeds Festival this year and sneaking in some “party supplies,” you might be able to test your drugs before you consume them.

Drug-related incidents and deaths are constantly on the rise in music festivals. A Canadian study examined all festival deaths between 1999 and 2014 and found 13 percent were caused by drugs and alcohol. Back in February, over 20 people were hospitalized after overdosing at Melbourne’s Electric Parade Music Festival.

Seeking to curb these tragic incidents, Festival Republic, a subsidiary of Live Nation that organizes festivals such as Reading and Leeds, Latitude Festival, Electric Picnic, and European Lollapalooza, is looking to establish drug-testing tents at their events operated by the Loop. Revellers will be able to hand over portions of whatever drugs they brought in order to determine what exactly is in them.

Festival Republic is hoping to secure support from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) and West Yorkshire police if the testing tents are to become a reality.

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