Testing for bad news, too?

In Portugal a partially state-run testing centre started checking the quality of drugs recently. Manuel António Pina delivers an ironic commentary in the daily Jornal de Notícias: "The enterprising and modern spirit of the Portuguese never fails to amaze me. According to i newspaper, an agency called Agência Piaget founded the Check-!n project, which is aimed at preventing Portuguese 'junkies' from consuming poor-quality drugs. If they … doubt the honesty of their dealer and suspect that the ecstasy he sells them is bad, all they have to do is send the Agência Piaget a sample … . My only drug is the news programmes on [public broadcaster] RTP. They normally give me 'nausea and a headache', so I'm debating sending the Agência Piaget some samples of the main news for them to check whether the information I consume contains any dubious substances."

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