It comes after reports the NSW Coroner is considering recommending pill testing be provided at music festivals and drug-detection operations be scaled back.

The Coroner has been investigating the deaths of six young people at music festivals between December 2017 and January 2019.

Groovin the Moo in Canberra is the only festival in the country to have trialled pill testing - in April this year and in 2018.

Mr Rattenbury has used the Coroner's recommendations - leaked to The Daily Telegraph - to bolster his calls for a fixed pill testing site in the ACT.

While the Greens have been pushing the issue publicly, Mr Rattenbury said he had not yet discussed the issue with Chief Minister Andrew Barr or Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith.

"We know that festivals are not the only place that people are taking these drugs," he said.

"Having a site that operated on a site on a regular basis would help shift the culture over time so people actually had taken those precautionary steps and broaden the impact of a pill testing facility."

He said a fixed-site facility could work at a location in Civic or a health clinic.

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"We know that the war on drugs hasn't worked. We must accept that despite all the efforts on enforcement and education, some young people still take illicit drugs. The right thing to do is to try to minimise the tragic harm and deaths that can result," he said.

"We believe a fixed pill-testing site is not only possible here in Canberra but highly appropriate to deal with the realities of regular recreational drug use in the ACT.

"A static pill-testing model should be developed in close consultation with medical and community groups to ensure that regular access to pill-testing is feasible and appropriate to the ACT community's needs."

Mr Rattenbury said a funding model was needed to make pill testing sustainable - whether through government funding, philanthropic support or contributions from festival organisers.

So far, ACT pill testing trails have been run entirely on volunteer time and largely at the expense of consortium Pill Testing Australia.

That consortium recently revealed it was developing a proposal for a testing service at a fixed location.

The group would not reveal whether that location was in Canberra, but the ACT government said it was not in talks with the group.