Australia’s first government-funded pill testing site has released results from its first month of operation and found that not only were most of them contaminated with random shit, about a third didn’t even contain *any* of the actual drug. But hey, enjoy that $320 bag of icing sugar.
The Canberra pill testing site CanTest examined 58 samples in July and the results were so bad 18 of the 58 people who submitted bags decided to bin them when they found out what was really in them.
Of all the cocaine samples, 40 per cent showed up with zero cocaine at all. Those that did have remnants of the drug all had purity levels below 27 per cent. Wow.
More than 65 per cent of of MDMA samples (the most popular drug to be brought in) actually contained MDMA.
So what was in them?
By and large they contained a lot of talcum powder, sugar and dimethyl sulfone — a cutting agent. One sample was *entirely* sugar.
All of the ketamine samples contained some ketamine and all of the heroin samples contained some heroin, with purity levels ranging from 31 to 63 per cent.
The data from the first month of drug checking at CanTEST is in!
