Funding issues bite for drug checking agency after law change - a podcast by RNZ

Ecstasy, Pingers, MDMA, are all different names for the second most popular illegal drug in New Zealand.
Police wastewater testing shows consumption has been growing consistently, with more than a third of all drugs detected in the first quarter of last year identified as the drug.
Usually sold as a powder inside of a capsule or pressed into colourful pills, the unregulated nature of the substance often leads users to use what they think is MDMA without knowing what they're actually consuming.
Finlay Dunseath reports.

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