Welcome to episode 18 where we are interviewing Wendy Allison, the managing director of Know Your Stuff. Know Your Stuff is a volunteer-run organisation striving towards the goal of reducing and mitigating drug-related harm in order to create safer communities.
Know Your Stuff have testing facilities that help festival-goers identify the substances they are potentially inducing. They then educate the client about the side-effects of that substance and then allow the client to make an informed decision about whether or not they will consume the drug.
We talk:
- What does KnowYourStuff really do?
- How does the process work for a client?
- Legalisation of drug testing over Summer, how has the law change really been?
- What are some of the key challenges Know Your Stuff face?
- The future of Know Your Stuff
- How can we create safer communities for our whanau?
- Misconceptions surrounding reducing drug-related harm?
