"If you're a young person going to a music concert, you hand a pill over and someone does some perfunctory test on a pill and says its ok, well then the idea that this person says 'well this is fine, I'll take this pill', it might be 40 degree heat, they might have a body weight of 45kg and they take that pill and how ever many others, I don't think that's a safe way of dealing with the situation.

"If you want to properly analyse a pill you've got to send it off to a laboratory, so some perfunctory analysis of a pill saying its okay, I just can't see that going to save lives. In fact I think it could actually risk lives."

Supporters of pill testing believe it doesn't give the green light to take drugs but rather better informs people of the contents of their drugs and the potential harm they could do to themselves if they take them.

Ted Noffs Foundation chief executive and organiser of the Take Control campaign for Safer, Saner Drug Laws Matt Noffs said global evidence they provided to the NSW government overwhelmingly supports pill testing.

"The evidence we have provided illustrates how in the United Kingdom they recently saw a significant reduction in hospitalisation due to pill testing," he said.