Labor will not support a move to have the Tasmanian government consider pill testing.
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Independent member for Murchison has accused Labor of "rolling over" and "playing politics" for refusing to support her motion which will be debated in the Legislative Council on Tuesday.
A Labor spokeswoman said Labor would continue to monitor pill testing trials interstate.
"Will Hodgman has shown time and time again that he is willing to ignore resolutions of the Parliament," she said.
"He has failed to listen to the Parliament on providing terminations in the public health system and hosting round tables on the health crisis.on an important health issue."
Ms Forrest's eight point motion calls on the Tasmanian government to "commence the necessary steps to explore how a trial of pill testing could occur during the 2019-20 summer festival season".
She accused Labor of not acting like a real opposition.
"I thought the job of an opposition was to hold the government to account," Ms Forrest said.
"What a poor excuse for not supporting a pragmatic and factual motion.
"This is pure politics as the motion states a number of facts about pill testing and only calls on the government to look at what would need to be done to conduct a trial.
"The motion does not call for the introduction or even for a trial to be conducted."
Ms Forrest said she had hoped the Labor Party would support a health related intervention.
"The opposition to the motion on the basis of the past actions of the government lacks leadership and politicises an important health intervention," she said.
"If this is how they behave in opposition how would they behave in government?
Former Health Minister Michael Ferguson maintained the government's opposition to pill testing.
"We've got a strong message and we want Tasmanians to understand that there is a reason why we haven't supported calls for pill testing at music festivals or at any location because there is no safe consumption of illegal drugs," Mr Ferguson said.
Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs Council of Tasmania chief executive Alison Lai urged the Legislative Council to "put politics aside and focus on the evidence".
Ms Lai said support of Ms Forrest's motion did not mean the government was compelled to begin a pill testing trial but would be another voice in the push for a trial.
"As an elected representative group, the Legislative Council also has an opportunity to communicate their position, as they have done previously on other policy matters including calling on the Tasmanian Government to take action on issues as diverse as solar energy, container deposit systems to fox eradication,' she said.
"It is not asking for a commitment to introduce pill testing but rather asking the members of the Upper House, regardless of whether they are Liberal, Labor or Independent, to acknowledge that pill testing is first and foremost a health service, supported in evidence and by Australia's leading national health and medical professional bodies.
"We are hopeful that Ms Forrest's motion can help to cut through the misinformation out there about what pill testing services are and how they operate so that we can give it genuine consideration, and it's incredibly important that politics are put to the side to enable this objective assessment to occur."