At 10.30 p.m., an 18-year-old man showed up outside the Warehouse Project in Manchester. Twenty minutes of queuing later, the reveler finds himself at the doors of the nightclub. The bouncers search him, and discover an ecstasy pill in the back pocket of his jeans. Elsewhere in England, the Mancunian would expose himself to trouble with the police: the possession of a substance of category A can lead to prosecution, and up to seven years of detention.
But here in the northwest of the country, the Labor Municipality has since April 2021 adopted an approach described as “pragmatic” par The Sunday Times. On the back seat of their vehicle, the police embarked… the stamp. Direction a laboratory held by the Metropolitan University of Manchester. The only one, in England, to benefit from an approval from the Ministry of the Interior. Until midnight, even 2