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  • Festival season, sniffer dogs and searches

    Dec 5, 2022

    Your guide to dealing with police at a festival […]

  • Demand so high for Canberra’s pill-testing service that 27 people were turned away ahead of Spilt Milk music festival

    Dec 5, 2022

    CanTEST extended its trading hours prior to the music festival Spilt Milk but still couldn’t meet demand […]

  • The ACT legislated to decriminalise possession of personal quantities of illicit drugs

    Nov 10, 2022

    By the time the ACT Legislative Assembly passed legislation on 20 October 2022 to commence the decriminalisation of personal quantities of all illicit drugs in October 2023, drug law reform was already well on its way around the world. […]

  • Sydneysiders declare city’s night-life is dead after sniffer dog video goes viral

    Nov 10, 2022

    Angry punters have declared that Sydney’s “night-life is dead”, after police were seen disturbing customers at a pub over the weekend. […]

  • ACT decriminalises drug possession: Labor MP Michael Pettersson on forging reform

    Nov 2, 2022

    That the century-old system of drug prohibition is a failure is well-established in legal circles, amongst medical experts, those who partake in illicit substances, families who’ve lost loved ones to the use of them, and a growing cross section of the community. […]

  • NSW government criticised in court over defence to music festival strip-searches

    Oct 28, 2022

    The government’s claim that strip-searches at music festivals could be reasonable – even if a judge finds they were unlawful – has been criticised in court as illogical. […]

  • Australia’s first fixed pill testing service CanTEST discovers new drug, dubbed ‘CanKet’

    Oct 19, 2022

    Australia’s first fixed pill testing site has discovered a new recreational drug not seen in the country before. […]

  • ‘Canberra ketamine’: new recreational drug discovered at Australian pill-testing service

    Oct 19, 2022

    ‘As far as we’re aware, this is the first detection of a new drug by a drug-checking service anywhere in the world,’ says professor […]

  • As Biden pardons pot possession, what does it mean to Australia’s War on Drugs?

    Oct 16, 2022

    Dr Alex Wodak, AM, is a former director of the Alcohol and Drug Service at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. He is now chair of Australia21, an independent think tank. I spoke to him on Thursday […]

  • Legalise pot? It’s high time, says ex-stockbroker Michael. But do others agree?

    Oct 16, 2022

    According to former NSW magistrate David Heilpern, who resigned over the issue in 2020, the medicinal cannabis industry won’t be financially viable until the “absurd” laws are reformed […]

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