USA/Deutschland. Fight Over Claimed Ownership of Drug-Checking Technology
USA/Deutschland. Fight Over Claimed Ownership of Drug-Checking Technology
People have always had to fight for the right to test their drugs, to get information about whether they’re likely to cause a horrendously intense trip, or death. But now, two suppliers of drug-testing kits are embroiled in an acrimonious row over ownership of the technology behind certain potentially life-saving products, highlighting the difficult relationship between harm reduction and profit.
German startup Miraculix, the manufacturer of “QTests” to ascertain the potency of the psychedelics MDMA, psilocybin and LSD, recently served a cease-and-desist letter to Emanuel Sferios, the founder of DanceSafe—a nonprofit that pioneered rave harm reduction in the United States—to prevent his company HRDS from distributing similar tests. (Filter, USA, 05.08.2025)
https://filtermag.org/fight-ownership-drug-checking-technology/