Five thousand partygoers will have the opportunity to get their illicit drugs tested for purity at the iconic "bush doof" Rabbits Eat Lettuce Festival that begins on Thursday on Queensland's Southern Downs.

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A team of analytical chemists from Canberra will work in a pill testing hub at the four-day festival, near Warwick, where they can determine if the drugs are cut with dangerous chemicals or synthetic opioids.

It comes after the deaths of Ebony Greening and Dassarn Tarbutt at the festival in 2019.

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