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The free, walk-in Victorian Pill Testing Service is located at 95 Brunswick Street and is open Thursdays from 12pm to 4pm, Fridays from 3pm to 7pm, and Saturdays from 1pm to 7pm.

Get your drugs tested, there's a lot more dangerous substitutes getting around these days. Stay safe.

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[–] CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Massive W.

This is awesome stuff. The hard reduction or drugs without waging a war. Really hoping coppers don't patrol the area to try and catch innocents.

[–] vas@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Such a thing exists in Amsterdam as well. From what I've read, it helps against poisoning etc quite a lot.

[–] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Quite funnily, it also acts as a consumer protection. If word gets out that a dealer's product is bad, people will stop buying from them haha

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fuck if you don’t need a way to distinguish between people who live in Victoria, and the Victorian era. I was scratching my head as to why there needs to be a distinct service to test pills from over a century ago, until I read the community name

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Better not be any laudinum in my opium else I'll find myself quite put out.

[–] TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Um, laudanum IS opium dissolved in alcohol.