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New York Moves Toward Legal Marijuana With Health Dept. Endorsement
New York moved a significant step closer to legalizing recreational marijuana, as a study commissioned by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will recommend that the state allow adults to consume marijuana legally, the governor’s health commissioner said on Monday. […]
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Media Release – Pill Testing Pilot Report – 20 June 2018
Pill Testing Pilot Report Media Release 20 June 2018 […]
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Report on the Pill Testing Pilot – ACT June 2018
Pill Testing Pilot- ACT June 2018 – Final Report Prepared by the Safety Testing Advisory Service At Festivals and Events (STA-SAFE) Consortium […]
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WHO’s Review Of Cannabis May Be The Starting Point For Worldwide Reform
There is tremendous gap between policy-makers in Vienna and the reality on the ground. So far in eyes of many activists, the INCB have been the bad guys. However, now that the science is being put back into policy by the WHO – an actor external to the UNODC, it…
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Potential Class Action Lawsuit Following Sniffer Dog Operation
A potential class action lawsuit is brewing amongst people denied entry to music festivals after a sniffer dog “indication”, despite not carrying any drugs. At least five people were denied entry to the Above and Beyond event in Sydney on the weekend, with one person being given a six month suspension.…
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Festival-goers barred from entry to concert and banned from the area for six months after being stopped by sniffer dogs – despite having no drugs on them
Festival goers have been banned from Olympic Park in Sydney for six months by police despite not committing any offence in what has been labelled a ‘serious abuse of police powers.’ NSW police followed through on their threat earlier in the week that at the Above & Beyond festival on Saturday…
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Controversial sniffer dogs plan kicks in as festival-goers urged to report incidents
Festivalgoers are being urged to report instances of being turned away from ‘Above & Beyond’ festival via a social media campaign run by the Greens party. “If NSW police go ahead with their plan to deny entry to people at ‘Above and Beyond’ even after a false positive, we’ll be seeing…
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NSW drug dog saga set for court sequel
The plan also attracted criticism from the former commissioner of the Australian Border Force, Roman Quaedvlieg, who spent more than three decades in drug enforcement. Mr Quaedvlieg dubbed the police move “extraordinary”. “Festival drugs are risky granted but a person can have minute drug traces from handling cash, infused into…
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Could the controversial ‘Portugal Method’ end our war on drugs?
Independent Victoria MP Fiona Patten was part of a delegation which visited Lisbon and studied what’s now known world wide as “The Portugal Model”. She insists – despite a tendency towards more conservative politics in Australia – this country is ready to take the same controversial step that Portugal did 17…
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Drug policy reform: The Portuguese decriminalisation model
Since reforming its policy in 2001, Portugal’s annual overdose death rate has dropped to 0.35 per 100,000 people. In Australia our overdose death rate is more than twenty times higher than that, a figure that is rising every year. At the start of 2000 Portugal had 1600 annual cases of drug-related…