Plans are in motion for Tasmania's Dark Mofo festival to host a pilot pill testing program this June.
As ABC reports, festival organisers will meet with Pill Testing Australia today (who launched Australia's first-ever pill testing trial at Groovin The Moo in 2018), to learn more about the program
It comes as Liberal Member for Clark and the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Sue Hickey, calls for pill testing to be introduced more widely in Tasmania.
"Consider if your child was in this situation, would you prefer if they had one road block in their way through before they took that tablet? This is a life and death situation," Hickey said.
Hickey's comments come just months after Dark Mofo Creative Director Leigh Carmichael urged Australian political parties to "stop playing politics with young Tasmanian lives".
"We know drug use happens, particularly in environments like music festivals, so we must do what we can to reduce the risk of harm or death," Carmichael said in a statement last November.
Dark Mofo will go ahead from 7-23 June.
Meanwhile, Groovin The Moo confirmed last month that it will host a second trial at its Canberra leg in April.
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