Items tagged with australia
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| Drug Decriminalisation Across the World [31.12.2030] | The criminalisation of people who use drugs compounds drug-related challenges and worsens health and welfare outcomes. Across the world, there is a g ... |
| NSW drug law overhaul would allow six marijuana plants for personal use [28.11.2023] | People would be allowed to grow six marijuana plants for personal use and give their friends pot as a gift under a proposed law being introduced to t ... |
| ‘Prohibition is failing’ [15.11.2023] | Former Australian Federal Police boss Mick Palmer has said the prohibition of cannabis use “is not just failing, it is causing real harm” as he descr ... |
| Sydney has a cocaine problem. Is decriminalisation the solution? [27.08.2023] | Delays in introducing reform is fuelling drug consumption and crime in NSW, experts have warned, calling for the government to implement decriminalis ... |
| Legalise Cannabis makes united push for personal marijuana use in three Australian states [19.06.2023] | Legalise Cannabis MPs in Australia are launching a coordinated push to make marijuana legal for personal use in three states and overhaul what the pa ... |
| Legalising cannabis in Australia: how would it work and is there a catch? [10.04.2023] | The Greens are about to introduce legislation into the parliament to legalise cannabis across Australia. Currently out for public consultation, the l ... |
| Australia spends billions ‘failing to police’ cannabis that earns black market $25bn a year, Greens say [17.03.2023] | Australia’s cannabis industry could be earning the black market $25bn a year and, rather than policing it, we could be gaining revenue from it by leg ... |
| Decriminalising cannabis could save Australian taxpayers $850m a year, report finds [08.12.2022] | Australia is not keeping pace with global best practice cannabis policy, a report from the public health research organisation the Penington Institut ... |
| ACT becomes first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise illicit drugs in small quantities [20.10.2022] | The Australian Capital Territory has become the first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise illicit drugs in small quantities. Laws passed in the ... |
| Victorian Greens push for cannabis to be legalised, taxed similarly to alcohol [09.10.2022] | Cannabis would be legal and regulated in Victoria (Australia) by 2024 under a Greens proposal, being announced ahead of November’s state election, th ... |
| Recreational marijuana use in Australia could be legalised by federal parliament, Greens say [26.09.2022] | Federal parliament could override state laws to legalise recreational marijuana use in Australia, according to new constitutional advice obtained by ... |
| ACT government agrees to decriminalise small amounts of illicit drugs, such as ice, heroin and cocaine [09.06.2022] | The ACT is set to become the first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise small amounts of commonly used illicit drugs, such as ice, heroin, cocain ... |
| NSW Attorney-General proposes $400 fines instead of court for drug possession [02.06.2022] | NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman has proposed a diversion scheme that would see people caught with drugs hit with a $400 fine instead of being take ... |
| Support for legalising marijuana in Australia nearly doubles over six years [28.12.2021] | Over 40% of Australians believe marijuana should be legalised, a figure that has nearly doubled since 2013, according to new analysis. Australian res ... |
| Coming out about illicit drug use: ‘The hush-hush attitude has to end’ [17.07.2021] | The ultimate goal of a campaign by charity Unharm called Let’s be honest/Change the story, is to decriminalise all drug use in Australia by 2030. One ... |
| What has changed in the year since cannabis possession was legalised in the ACT? [31.01.2021] | Dire warnings of legal loopholes, a mental health crisis and drug driving fears accompanied the legalisation of cannabis in the ACT last year. But on ... |
| ‘Tide is turning’: New Zealand’s cannabis referendum sparks debate in Australia [18.10.2020] | The cannabis legalisation referendum was watched closely by progressive politicians and campaigners in Australia. For the first time, the 2019 Nation ... |
| NSW police pursue 80% of Indigenous people caught with cannabis through courts [10.06.2020] | Police in New South Wales pursue more than 80% of Indigenous people found with small amounts of cannabis through the courts while letting others off ... |
| Safe injecting room trial extended in North Richmond [05.06.2020] | Victoria will keep its supervised injecting room in North Richmond open for another three years and is set to create a second facility near Queen Vic ... |
| Landmark NSW inquiry condemns ineffective drug laws and calls for decriminalisation [27.02.2020] | A New South Wales government-commissioned special inquiry into drug use has slammed the criminalisation of drug users as a “profound flaw” in the sta ... |
| Drug decriminalisation would 'save hundreds of millions', but Queensland Premier rules it out [31.01.2020] | Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has ruled out decriminalising drugs despite a new report saying it would cut the state's record rate of incarceration a ... |
| Canberrans can now grow and smoke cannabis, though some questions remain unanswered [31.01.2020] | Canberrans can now grow dope, keep a small amount of the drug at home and smoke it without fear of committing a criminal offence … kind of. Friday ma ... |
| Cannabis possession will soon be legal in Canberra [24.01.2020] | Just quietly, from Friday week onwards, if you're in the ACT and you want to smoke cannabis in the privacy of your own home it will be completely leg ... |
| Canberra's cannabis laws do not address supply problem, meaning buying the drug will remain illegal [11.01.2020] | Cannabis will be legal in the ACT come the end of the month, but those hoping to light up might have to break the law to do so. The controversial new ... |
| Foreign assets could be next on the block for cash-hungry cannabis companies [10.01.2020] | Two years ago, Canadian cannabis companies were racing to scoop up international assets, from swaths of fertile land in southern Africa to cultivatio ... |
| Personal drug use and possession should be decriminalised, former Supreme Court justice argues [02.12.2019] | The criminalisation of illicit drugs is causing more harm than good, a prominent former judge has said, calling for criminal offences relating to per ... |
| Inside the Walmart of weed [23.11.2019] | With Canada the largest nation to completely legalize marijuana, the world’s most valuable pot company, Canopy Growth Corp., founded in 2013 and now ... |
| NSW coroner says punitive policing tactics increase risk of drug deaths and calls for reform [08.11.2019] | The use of high-visibility policing tactics such as drug dogs and “large scale” strip searching at music festivals “increases rather than decreases” ... |
| ACT dope laws ‘flout UN treaty statutes’ [28.10.2019] | The UN narcotics agency has warned that the ACT Labor government’s move to legalise cannabis in the national capital had put Australia in violation o ... |
| ACT legalising cannabis will not stop it being a federal offence, warns Porter [16.10.2019] | The Australian Capital Territory law to legalise cannabis possession appears to “do nothing to end the continuing operation” of commonwealth offences ... |
| Australia could be the first country to legalise ecstasy – are we going too far? [04.10.2019] | Matt Noffs, the chief executive of the Ted Noffs Foundation and a spokesman for the Take Control Campaign for Safer, Saner Drug Laws, and Alex Wodak, ... |
| Cannabis reform raises conflict between state and federal laws [29.09.2019] | The ACT parliament passed significant reforms in regard to cannabis. Whilst the headlines called it "cannabis legalisation" the actual change was rat ... |
| 'Evolution, not revolution': ACT cannabis users chilled about legalisation [27.09.2019] | Chief minister Andrew Barr describes the Australian Capital Territory’s decision to legalise cannabis possession for personal use as an “evolution, n ... |
| Feds 'obsessed' with cannabis laws as Barr opens door to MDMA reform [27.09.2019] | Chief Minister Andrew Barr says the federal government should stick to trying to beat dangerous drug gangs instead of becoming "obsessed" with the AC ... |
| Peter Dutton: government may override 'dangerous' ACT decision to legalise cannabis [26.09.2019] | Attorney-General Christian Porter has warned Australian Capital Territory cannabis users they may not be protected by a new law legalising recreation ... |
| Australian Capital Territory votes to legalise cannabis for personal use [25.09.2019] | Possessing and growing cannabis for personal use will become legal in Australia’s capital. The laws, which don’t come into effect until 31 January, w ... |
| Enough evidence to support introduction of pill testing in NSW, inquiry told [23.09.2019] | A world expert has told an inquiry into the drug ice and other amphetamines, including MDMA (ecstasy), that there is "sufficient evidence" overseas a ... |
| Laws to legalise cannabis for personal use in the ACT could pass next week [20.09.2019] | Laws that would legalise cannabis for personal use could be passed next week but the government has warned possessing and growing the drug could stil ... |
| Drug laws on possession: several countries are revisiting them and these are their options [02.08.2019] | Many countries are changing the way they approach people who use drugs. The Irish government has just announced possible alternatives to criminalisat ... |
| The profile of festival drug takers might be different to what you expect [18.07.2019] | A NSW Coronial Inquest investigating a series of drug-related deaths at Australian music festivals has heard evidence of festival goers taking multip ... |
| Push to decriminalise ice use as bar backs public health approach [26.06.2019] | The personal use and possession of ice and other illicit drugs would be decriminalised in NSW under a public health-driven plan backed by the Bar Ass ... |
| Should Canberra allow dope-growing clubs to be set up? [26.03.2019] | Dope-smoking Canberrans should be able to join clubs where gardeners can cultivate their cannabis crops for them, a Legislative Assembly inquiry has ... |
| Nine pill testing myths [04.02.2019] | From politicians to the public, the same myths keep being rolled out about pill testing. They’ve been testing pills in 20 other countries for at leas ... |
| Illicit drugs should be regulated and distributed by pharmacies, leading doctor suggests [30.01.2019] | A leading drug reform advocate and esteemed doctor is calling for a shake up to the illicit drug market, suggesting substances like MDMA, marijuana a ... |
| History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren’t [30.01.2019] | Drug-related offences take up a lot of the resources within Australia’s criminal justice system. In 2016–17 law enforcement made 113,533 illicit drug ... |
| I'm 'coming out' about drugs: it's time get real about pill testing [21.01.2019] | As a politician I’ve made the difficult decision to "come out" in this way because the government’s zero-tolerance approach to drugs has not only bee ... |
| Overwhelming majority of voters support pill-testing – Guardian Essential poll [15.01.2019] | An overwhelming majority of voters in the latest Guardian Essential poll say they support pill testing in Australia. The survey of 1,089 respondents, ... |
| 'We're dealing with a black market': is taking pills becoming more dangerous? [15.01.2019] | Prof Alison Ritter, a public health academic from the University of New South Wales, agreed that there had been an “explosion” in new types of substa ... |
| Music festivals are offering to test the safety of people’s drugs, and police increasingly like the idea [04.01.2019] | For a long time, authorities at festivals in Australia and elsewhere almost entirely focused on preventing people from taking drugs in the first plac ... |
| New Zealand embraces pill testing as Australian politicians resist [03.01.2019] | As Australian politicians continue to rule out pill testing at music festivals, New Zealand appears to be embracing the controversial practice. The c ... |
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