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The equipment needed to detect those tiny grains of fentanyl is expensive, even for the non-profits that have been running harm reduction booths since 2002. The West Kootenay group Aids Network Outreach and Support Society, or ANKORS, found that out when they launched a crowdfunding campaign last month aiming to buy a "mass spectrometer." The group, which runs several harm reduction projects including pill testing at Shambhala Music Festival, found the fancy lab tech can cost as much as a quarter million."The new machine that we're looking for is going to be very exact. It'll tell you every single substance that is in that pill," Stacey Lock, harm reduction director for Shambhala, told VICE. Lock says even mobile versions of the technology range in the tens of thousands.Shambhala is only a few weeks away, and so far ANKORS has raised just over $10,000 of the $20,000 needed to buy the fentanyl-testing equipment. But Lock says even if they raise enough money, they won't have the machine up and running, or the volunteers trained, by the time the party gates open.READ MORE: The Bunk Police Are Risking Prison to Bring Drug Testing Kits to Music Festivals
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