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Pill Testing: Governments Need to Support More Trials
Harm Reduction Australia and Family Drug Support are calling on all Governments (Federal, State & Territory) to immediately reconsider their positions on pill testing and support further trials around the country. Pill Testing Media Release 1 May 2018 […]
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Australia should tax and regulate cannabis, not prohibit it
The harms resulting from cannabis prohibition are far greater than the harms resulting from cannabis itself as former US president Jimmy Carter observed: “Penalties against the use of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of a drug itself; and where they are they…
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Greens propose full legalisation of cannabis
The policy is the first time a party with significant federal representation has backed full legalisation, providing a point of difference with the Coalition and Labor, which both support a scheme initiated in 2016 to legalise cannabis for medicinal use only. […]
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Greens want cannabis to be made legal
The Greens say cannabis should be legalised and sold in plain packaging, with its wholesale distribution monopolised by a new government agency. The controversial policy, released by Greens leader Richard Di Natale on Monday, would ban sale to people under 18, prohibit advertising, and use tax revenue collected for drug…
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United Nations Chief calls for the decriminalization of all drugs
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, openly defied the main drug control body at the UN this week in a speech which promoted the decriminalization of all drugs. His remarks countered the organization’s top narcotics officials who released a report earlier in the week criticizing marijuana legalization efforts…
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Greek Parliament Passes Bill to Regulate Medical Cannabis Production
The new regulations have been developed by policymakers over recent months, following a ministerial decision in July 2017 to legalise the drug for medical purposes. At the time, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras stated that “from now on, the country is turning its page, as Greece is now included in countries…
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Trump Suggests America Could Solve Opioid Crisis Through Executions in Shocking Televised Remarks
President Donald Trump went on a shocking rant Thursday during a televised White House summit about the opioid crisis, when he suggested that executing drug dealers is a solution to the overdose and addiction problems sweeping the nation. […]
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Philippines’ Duterte tells police, soldiers not to cooperate in any drug war probe
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered police and soldiers not to cooperate in any investigation into his bloody war on drugs, amid international calls for an external probe. Western countries and rights groups have expressed alarm over the killing by police of more than 4,000 Filipinos since Duterte took office…
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Philippine Catholics protest drug killings, death penalty
Around a thousand Catholics in the Philippines marched in Manila on Saturday to protest President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs and his efforts to reinstate the death penalty. […]
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Reducing Crime and Preventing Harm: West Midlands Drug Poverty Recommendations
Drug policy is failing. This failure means the public put up with more crime, public services are put under more strain, and not enough is done to reduce the harm of those suffering from addiction. If people are at risk of falling into addiction or choosing to deal drugs, we…
