The rampant drug use at Defqon.1 Festival in Sydney this 12 months left , three in vital situation, a number of extra hospitalized, and 700 others who sought medical help on website.
The occasion has been plagued with overdoses for years, however the numbers from this 12 months’s installment had been actually staggering. The NSW Government and Premier Gladys Berejiklian have since been doing every part of their energy to close down the controversial hardstyle pageant for good.
Meanwhile, a gaggle 60 Australian musicians, festivals, trade figures, and well being personnel received collectively and wrote up a proposal to begin an “open dialogue” as an alternative shutting down such occasions. Offering expertise, expertise and analysis, the referred to as for additional dialogue.
On high all of it, a father who misplaced his son throughout Defqon.1 three years in the past spoke on the matter. “Don’t cease the pageant,” he . “This is regular for youths to get collectively. Get rid the sellers. When these guys commit a number of murders, it’s mass homicide. They ought to get life.”
Relocate to Canberra?
In midst the talk, ACT Greens member Shane Rattenbury has come ahead, fering to deliver the embattled pageant to Canberra. It’s there the politician says Defqon.1 Festival might work to “reduce drug hurt for pageant patrons” by means of testing.
The letter addressed to pageant organizers Q-Dance asks them to think about a brand new dwelling for the pageant within the nation’s capital.
“As you might be undoubtedly conscious, the ACT hosted Australia’s first tablet testing trial on the Groovin the Moo pageant in April,” he writes. “This marked a major step ahead in drug regulation reform efforts to reduce hurt for leisure drug use.”
“We hope that you're inspired by the success Canberra’s preliminary trial, and we look ahead to working with you in bringing Defcon.1 to the ACT.”
Q-Dance has but to answer Rattenbury’s letter.
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