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Drug testing threat

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Drug testing threat

A series of fatal accidents from 2008 raised safety concerns in the adventure tourism industry. Reports of widespread drug-taking among tourism operators led to a government threat that it would introduce mandatory drug testing if the situation continued. This 2012 cartoon satirises the prospect.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: DCDL-0021346

by Alistair Nisbet

Courtesy of Cartoon-yoo

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Ben Schrader, Extreme sports and adventure sports – Adventure sports, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/40780/drug-testing-threat (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 29 April 2013.