Pill-testing: budget office finds it would cost $16m to put services in major cities

Greens say hardline drugs policy ‘has destroyed thousands of lives and wasted billions of dollars’

The Greens have revealed a plan to open 18 pill-testing services across Australia at a cost of $16m, saying the policy would disrupt drug dealing networks and cut preventable deaths.

The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, a former drug and alcohol doctor, said the war on drugs had failed because 1 million Australians still used ecstasy and cocaine every year and a number of them were dying because they had no idea what they were consuming.

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