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Australian notebook. Drugs continue killing young people

Several people have been hospitalised from two Sydney music festivals with six out of eight cases related to drugs
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6 visitors to music festivals died within 4 months, because of drug. Demand for ecstasy and ice is on increase. Dr Kerrin Phelps is calling for introduction of pill-testing at music festivals. Some experts are calling for decriminalisation of cannabis, the way it was done in Canada.


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By Vladimir Dubossarsky

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6 visitors to music festivals died within 4 months, because of drug. Demand for ecstasy and ice is on increase. Dr Kerrin Phelps is calling for introduction of pill-testing at music festivals. Some experts are calling for decriminalisation of cannabis, the way it was done in Canada.



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