NO! NO! NO!
The Loop doesn't encourage you to take illegal drugs. They perform harm reduction!
Festivals are a hotspot for drug use and abuse.
What The Loop is doing is a professional test if there are bad substances in your sample. Eg. you think you have MDMA but actually it is some kind of bad Amphetamine (I know MDMA is a type of Amphetamine).
You as a user go to their place and leave a sample which they test and publically announce whether it is safe or not or it is too strong and so on... They know drugs are being taken and nobody can prevent this so why not tell them if their drug is safe to take or not.
It is great to have them on festivals! There is CheckIt! In Austria which was does the same for ages.
I think they are doing great work because they prevent much harm and deaths!
Wiedy
Absolutely true @wiedy . As I said in my post, it appears to be a good work but imagine what number of people would feel fearless and wouldn't work to remove their bad addictions? That's the point. Of-course they may be doing a great work but their work just promotes even more dangers!
"You might be questioning yourself, how it can be bad when their duty is for our good? Actually, the usage of drugs should be discouraged and when there are services like this, then who do you expect to leave such bad habits? They'll become dependent on those tests, and consume the drugs even more!"
I am sorry but I have to disagree again. lets take Portugal as example, they legalised all drugs and the usage decreased!
They definately help more then harm