Know Your Stuff NZ Dunedin team leader Ashley Heydon legally tests a drug sample at the University of Otago Clubs and Societies building yesterday. PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSONFor the first time at the University of Otago’s O Week, drug checking is out of a legal grey area and out in the open. The drug-checking service has worked behind the scenes in previous years at O Week, and has since 2019 been promoted by the OUSA. But temporary legislation was only passed late last year to give legal certainty to drug-checking organisations such as Know Your Stuff NZ. About 80% of the drugs Know Your Stuff NZ volunteers were testing was presumed to be MDMA, but testing LSD and ketamine was also common.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 25, 2021 15:33 UTC