Looking out for the health and wellbeing of people who attend their events is good for everyone, including the sustainability of the industry. Safer drug use at venues means less use of emergency services. Safer drug use at venues means happier, healthier customers who are more likely to be repeat visitors. […]
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The mass murder in the Philippines is far worse than most media report
President Rodrigo Duterte’s chief executioner is “treated more like a rock star than a policeman.” […]
‘War on drugs will fail’
“The war on drugs is a misnomer.” The crackdown “is a war on people, largely the poor and, in many cases, minor offenders (assuming for the purpose of classification that they are offenders). As in all wars, there are unintended consequences, including collateral damage to innocent bystanders. Victims are ‘suspects’ only…. […]
Morality and non-medical drug use
So long as others are not harmed, there are no moral grounds for restricting use of cannabis or heroin any more than alcohol or caffeine, argues A C Grayling. […]
In Defense of Suboxone
This isn’t a story about me. It’s about two friends who would likely be alive today if they didn’t feel compelled to stop taking a life-saving medication. […]
Nobel Peace Prize: Santos calls for ‘rethink’ of war on drugs
The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has used his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to call for the world to “rethink” the war on drugs. He said the zero-tolerance policy might be “even more harmful” than all the other wars being fought worldwide. […]
NZ: Greens want full legalisation of cannabis use
“Many New Zealander’s recognise that creating criminals out of cannabis users does more harm than the occasional use of marijuana does”, says health spokesperson Julie Anne Genter. […]
Our drugs policies have failed. It’s time to reinvent them based on what actually works
Few areas of policy-making are more emotionally charged than drugs policy. Yet if we resist knee-jerk calls to arms and engage in informed policy-setting that involves many stakeholders and types of knowledge, we can save many more lives, reduce needless suffering, and alleviate the financial burden of ineffective drugs policies. […]
Why the Greens are right on drug reform
The war on drugs has failed, writes Angelo Pricolo which is why the Greens’ new approach is so important. […]
“They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals”
Inside President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaign in the Philippines, this photojournalist documented 57 homicide victims over 35 days. […]
Police rack up an almost perfectly deadly record in Philippine drug war
In 51 shootings by police in drug busts, 100 suspects were killed and just 3 wounded. The 97 percent kill ratio, eyewitness testimony and other evidence amassed by Reuters suggest officers are summarily gunning down suspects in President Duterte’s crackdown. […]
Dear Aussie media, please stop reporting non-stories about drugs at festivals
Drug arrests at music festivals make for sexy story fodder. But whilst the media outlets enjoy the clicks, these non-stories paint a biased and inaccurate profile of Australia’s festival scene and undermine the efforts of organisers and industry members to police their events and protect their punters. […]
War on drugs a losing battle
We aren’t winning the war on drugs in Australia, so how about some regulation? […]
Decriminalise ‘old drugs’ to protect young people from new drugs, expert says
Each time we ban a drug, a new drug emerges in its place and young people are increasingly being exposed to drugs that humans have never been exposed to before. […]
World AIDS Day: We Can’t End AIDS Until We End the War on Drugs
We’re not going to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic until we end the war on drugs. We aren’t going to get to zero – meaning zero deaths, zero new infections, and zero stigma – until we end the war on drugs. Syringe access is essential, as is decriminalizing drug use and opening safer drug use spaces or supervised consumption facilities. […]
Duterte threatens to kill rights activists if drug problem worsens
Human rights advocates, beware. You might just be next in “The Punisher’s” crosshairs. President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to kill human rights activists critical of his take-no-prisoner tactic against illegal drugs, which has claimed the lives of some 5000 people allegedly involved in the narcotics trade. […]
Australia could see festival pill testing within this festival season
Speaking with ABC Radio National Dr David Caldicott said that pill testing in Australia right now is purely a political issue, with medical experts almost unanimously agreeing it’s a necessity. “I have great faith that it’s going to happen within this festival season, and it’s need has never been greater,” said Caldicott. […]
The ‘war on drugs’ has failed, and Australia must change its policies
The Age has for years been arguing the policy should be dumped in favour of a harm minimisation strategy based on decriminalisation, regulation and education. We continue to so advocate, and believe the resources being wasted on this misguided, indefensible “war” should be diverted from the criminal justice system to the health system, where there is a need for more treatment facilities and support to help those with drug issues recover and stay well. […]
Harm Reduction Australia Statement on Drug Policy Hysteria
Greens in radical new drug legalisation push
The Greens have made a radical change to their drugs policy which leader Richard Di Natale hopes will reignite the decriminalisation debate and pave the way for the legalisation of recreational drugs like cannabis. […]
Global Commission on Drug Policy report: Advancing Drug Policy Reform: A New Approach to Decriminalization
Building on current partial decriminalization models that have helped to achieve more effective drug policies and positive outcomes, with a greater emphasis on justice, dignity and human rights, this report advocates ending all penalties – both civil and criminal – on people who use drugs. […]
Thousands of Free Pill Testing Kits Will Be Available at Music Festivals This Summer
Harm Reduction Australia’s president Gino Vumbaca explained how comprehensive clinical testing labs are a far more trustworthy alternative to reagent kits. These labs allow patrons to receive expert advice and chemical analysis of the pills they’re taking. The results are much more detailed and foolproof than those provided by DIY kits, which can detect active ingredients but not their dosage. […]
Thousands of free pill-testing kits to flood Sydney’s summer music festivals
Thousands of free pill-testing kits will flood Sydney’s music festivals this summer amid an ongoing row between the NSW government and health experts over the legalities of a professionally managed harm reduction trial. […]
Singapore executes 2 for drug offences
It will not rid Singapore of drugs. By executing people for drug-related offences, which do not meet the threshold of most serious crimes, Singapore is violating international law,” said Amnesty International’s Rafendi Djamin. […]
British Medical Journal calls for legalisation of drugs
Nick Clegg and Baroness Molly Meacher say the UK’s drug policy has been irrational for 55 years. […]
Fairfax Media teams up with Global Drugs Survey
The GDS team aims to help people and communities reduce the harm associated with drug use by sharing credible information. […]
World Harm Reduction Report: For the First Time, No Increase in Number of Countries With Syringe Access
“Behind these numbers remains a landscape of political neglect where harm reduction advocates and people who use drugs are struggling to fill the gap governments are leaving behind,” write the report’s authors. “Civil society is relied upon to deliver services, gather data, advocate for funding and fight for the rights of people who use drugs. […]
Drug users swap stories, share warnings online in search for safety
“In the absence of a better system, people will use the systems that are available,” said NDARC researcher and Bluelight administrator Monica Barratt. “People are using drugs, and the internet is not going away,” Dr Barratt said. “We believe we need to change the way we approach drugs and talk about the best ways of dealing with these issues.” […]
The war on drugs has failed: doctors should lead calls for drug policy reform
Doctors and their leaders have ethical responsibilities to champion individual and public health, human rights, and dignity and to speak out where health and humanity are being systemically degraded. Change is coming, and doctors should use their authority to lead calls for pragmatic reform informed by science and ethics. […]
Speaking out for drug war victims, a Filipina activist goes into hiding
Today, she lives with her three children in hiding, sheltered by an extraordinary witness protection program run by the country’s independent Commission on Human Rights, which has feared for her safety while it investigates the case. […]
We broke the law and saved lives, and still we’re worried about ‘wrong messages’ in drug policy
Thirty years ago we resorted to civil disobedience to start a needle exchange program and set an example for the world. Today we watch from the sidelines. […]
Ghana On the Verge of Decriminalising All Illegal Drug Use
“I welcome the move to decriminalise drug use in my home country, Ghana. The use of drugs is harmful but reducing the harm is a task for the public health system, not the courts”, said Kofi Annan. […]
Super strength Ecstasy, mega dose opiates and the N-bomb flooding Australia in deadliest summer of drugs
“With no pill testing program here or harm minimisation culture like there is in Europe, we are estimating a truly abysmal summer of drug overdoses.” […]
How Marijuana Won the Election
What Trump will do in light of his repeated calls for “law and order” and cracking down on crime is much harder to say. But if the man has an eye on winning a second term in 2020, he may not want to make weed his law enforcement priority. In most states where medical or recreational marijuana was on the ballot the initiatives got a significantly larger percentage of the vote than he did. […]
NZ: We regulate legal use of alcohol and tobacco, why not marijuana?
Cannabis law reform doesn’t mean putting marijuana in school canteens, says Drug Foundation boss Ross Bell. It’s about investing in more treatment programmes and dialling back the police and courts. […]
It’s Been a Historic Election for Marijuana
Across the US, voters have spoken, and they are embracing marijuana. In California, Florida, and even North Dakota, measures to legalize recreational or medical marijuana have passed handily. […]
The body count rises in the Phillipines
“Offhand, I can smell extrajudicial killing,” former national police chief Sen. Panfilo Lacson told CBS. […]
Progress in war on drugs won’t come by locking more people up
Addiction is tough to beat, but the countries making progress aren’t calling for tougher laws and more prisons. How about we stop glorifying authoritarian law and order figures, declare a war on the war on drugs, and learn from the people and countries that are quietly and successfully setting about dealing with one of the biggest social problems of our time? […]
Australia providing training, support to Philippine police despite killing spree
Australia has provided wide-ranging training, support and assistance for Philippine police who are at the centre of president Rodrigo Duterte’s highly contentious crackdown on drugs that has left thousands of Filipinos dead. […]
Blindfolded and hosed with water: drug rehab in the Philippines – in pictures
The Philippines’ president Rodrigo Duterte has waged a violent war on drugs since he came to power in June, forcing many users to register with the authorities and join rehabilitation centres – though there are few programmes to help them. Reuters photojournalist Erik de Castro visited the centres […]
We Can’t ‘Breed Out’ Drug Addicts
Helping people with drug and alcohol problems is not the soft option, it is the smart option. Providing resources for family and treatment services achieves far better outcomes for the community than even more punishment ever will. […]
Why the Codependency Myth of Drug Addiction Needs to Die
“It’s a mush of reasonable ideas—of course people depend on one another and care for one another—that got its own pathological label and, without a shred of data, was turned into a ‘diagnosis.’ […]
Drug users overseas to Duterte: ‘Stop playing God!’
“People who use drugs are not inherently evil or criminal. They are mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, and grandparents. They care for their families and communities. People who use drugs are human beings, just as valuable and important in contributions to society as all other citizens.” […]
DIY pill testing: Is it better than nothing?
Formal analytical testing of the market — with pill testing at music festivals as the sharp end of a broader early warning system that involves hospitals, ambulance, and static testing points — could not only save lives, it may even change the way how young Australians use drugs. […]
Drug checking could have saved Riki Stephens’ life
The point is this: What good is it to test for the drugs after the person has been hospitalised or, as in this case, died? Testing the drugs before Stephens took them, could have saved his life. […]
Polling high
Support for marijuana legalization has hit an all-time high in the U.S., according to two recent national polls, raising the possibility that legal weed could pass in all nine states where it’s on the ballot in the Nov. 8 election. […]
Duterte says children killed in Philippines drug war are ‘collateral damage’
“In my country there is no law that says I cannot threaten criminals,” he added. “I do not care what the human rights guys say. I have a duty to preserve the generation. If it involves human rights, I don’t give a shit. I have to strike fear.” […]
Health Warnings On Drugs Shouldn’t Be Provided By Police
It’s time for Australia to get back into the business of acting on evidence when it comes to drugs and to lead in this region. If you want our kids to be safer then we cannot simply push out more of the same and expect things to change. […]
Let’s Use Our Brains When It Comes To Drug Education
Government scare campaigns portraying people as zombies won’t stop people using drugs. You know what will? Accurate information, greater access to quality drug treatment services and less inequality. […]
Duterte in War of Words With the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor
Fatou Bensouda said that she is “deeply concerned” by reports from the country. “Any person in the Philippines who incites or engages in acts of mass violence including by ordering, requesting, encouraging or contributing, in any other manner, to the commission of crimes within the jurisdiction of the ICC is potentially liable to prosecution before the court.” […]
Court frees Australian in drugs rap
A Philippine judge dismissed a narcotics trafficking charge against an Australian man after ruling police made up evidence, court documents show, as concerns mount about new President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. […]
Will decriminalization solve the drug scourge?
Two major human and civil rights organizations make a good case for it and advance the decriminalization discussion in a report released Wednesday. Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union are engaged in a major push to change the way federal, state and local governments deal with drug enforcement and abuse. […]
Medicinal cannabis: New laws allow access for Queensland patients of any age
Queensland GPs will soon be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis for patients under new laws passed by State Parliament on Wednesday night. However, Steve Peek, who uses cannabis oil on his dying eight-year-old daughter Suli, said the laws would not solve their problems. He said legal cannabis oil was too expensive and was not on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. […]
US: Police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent crimes – combined
“It’s been 45 years since the war on drugs was declared, and it hasn’t been a success,” lead author Tess Borden of Human Rights Watch said in an interview. “Rates of drug use are not down. Drug dependency has not stopped. Every 25 seconds, we’re arresting someone for drug use.” […]
France Is Opening Its First Ever Drug Consumption Room
According to France Inter, the facility contains six injecting booths for people to use drugs intravenously, and an inhalation room for those who smoke. It will be open seven days a week from 1:30 – 8:30 pm, and will be run by the Gaia Association. […]
Once-powerful Philippines Church divided, subdued over drug killings
Opposing the drug war “in some locations becomes a dangerous job”, said Father Luciano Felloni, a priest in a northern district of the capital, Manila. At least 30 people, including a child and a pregnant woman, have been killed in his ‘barangay’, or neighbourhood, where he is setting up community-based rehabilitation for drug users […]
What The Philippines’ War On Drugs Can Teach Australia
We have fallen behind the rest of the world in adopting many evidence-based initiatives. We have experienced an evidence-based policy-free zone for far too long. Programs such as supervised injecting rooms, pill testing, needle exchanges in prisons and heroin prescribing are badly needed to reduce the toll from illicit drugs. […]
Aussie man tells of Philippine drug war
“How are you meant to believe that all these people who are being killed in buy-busts are guilty of drug dealing when they completely fabricated this whole thing against me?” […]
Why we ignore thousands of killings in the Philippines: The victims were drug user
This genocide is being ignored because, for too long, the dehumanization of people who use drugs and calls for their death have been an acceptable part of the “drug war.” […]
Australia earns Duterte’s ire
Malacañang has chided Australia for raising criticisms over the extrajudicial killings in the country through the media instead of the official channels. […]
In a revelation sure to rock the industry to its core, an Australian reporter went to a music festival and was offered drugs.
It’s almost like Australia’s dog sniffing crackdown and political rhetoric seems to be having zero effect on attendees enjoying whatever they want. […]
Police promise not to charge ice users — could this be the answer to Australia’s drug crisis?
John Coyne, head of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s border protection program, told news.com.au it was crucial police in this country adopted innovative ways to combat the ice crisis because “law enforcement on its own isn’t going to solve it”. “Chances are in the court system drug users won’t get a custodial sentence, but it will give them a drug conviction and that won’t allow them to drag themselves out of the [drug] mire. […]
Australia urges Philippines: Stop extrajudicial killings
“The Australian government is concerned about ongoing reports of human rights violations in the Philippines and we are monitoring the situation closely,” Bishop was quoted in the Australian Financial Review report as saying. “We urge the government to ensure the cessation of extrajudicial killings and offer all Filipino citizens their rights according to the country’s criminal justice system,” Bishop added […]
Seattle Tries to Curb Heroin Deaths by Offering a Safe Place to Use
Seattle’s supervised injection center will be the first of its kind in the U.S., but New York is already considering a similar plan. […]
Rodrigo Duterte vows to kill 3 million drug addicts and likens himself to Hitler
Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines president, appears to have compared himself to Hitler, saying he would be “happy to slaughter” millions of drug addicts in his bloody war on crime. […]
Global Week of Action: Crisis for People who Use Drugs in the Philippines
Monday 10th October 2016 will kick off a week of sustained actions targeting the Filipino president and government through peaceful demonstrations at embassies and consulates of the Philippines around the world. Please click for more information. […]
I Take Psychedelic Drugs and I’m in Recovery
“Each person has the right to define what recovery means for them. For many people, establishing safer and less risky relationships with substances while also working to optimize other areas of functioning is the essence of recovery.” […]
Op-Eds Urging People to Stop Taking Drugs Won’t Solve Mexico’s Cartel Problem
It is within the power of American legislators to curb the power of the Mexican cartels responsible for the hideous crimes we read about every day. Doing so requires only one policy, in fact. That policy is, of course, legalizing drug. […]
Canberra’s overdose training program saving opioid users lives four years on
Four years after it began in humble circumstances, an ACT program is helping to save the lives of Canberra’s opioid-dependant community one at a time. […]
Is the Philippines’ ‘war on drugs’ fuelling an HIV epidemic?
Clean needles have been distributed in Cebu City for years, sometimes illegally, in order to prevent the spread of HIV. Under the new government, which took office at the end of June, pressure is increasing for such clandestine activities to stop. […]
US: Adult Pot Use Up, But Abuse is Down, Feds Say
As legal access to cannabis goes up, abuse of the drug is on the decline. New data from the federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the legalization movement’s long running message about responsible use seems to be getting through. […]
Fewer police sniffer dog searches but most still don’t find drugs
The NSW Greens are attributing the drop in search figures to the success of the party’s “Sniff Off” campaign, which highlights the high percentage of what the party calls “false positives” – where dogs indicate the presence of drugs yet none are found. […]
Jail needle exchange veto shows unions ‘dictating’ public health policy: researchers
Researchers have slammed the voting down of a needle exchange program at Canberra’s Alexander Maconochie Centre saying it should be evidence rather than unions that decide public health policy. […]
The war on drugs is a war on people
This year, as the war on people turns 45, we must collectively acknowledge that it is one of the greatest American injustices ever committed, and turn outrage and frustration into action and progress. […]
ASEAN goal to eradicate drugs in the region leads to disregard for human life
ASEAN drug policy should be overhauled. The number of drug seizures and people executed should not be indicators of success. With the current law-enforcement approach, drug production, processing, trafficking and use continue in the region. […]
Bolivia ended its drug war by kicking out the DEA and legalizing coca
Farmers feel particularly indebted to President Evo Morales, a former firebrand coca growers’ leader from the Chapare. Morales expelled the DEA from Bolivia in 2008 after violent confrontations in the region claimed 30 lives and he said he could no longer guarantee the US agents’ safety. […]
Copenhagen’s New Supervised Injection Site Is Swanky
“It would be great to have more supervised consumption sites in other parts of Copenhagen because we can see that people no longer die of overdoses in Vesterbro after we’ve opened the consumption facility here.” […]
Grow up and legalise cannabis, New Zealand
Legalising cannabis would not be perfect, but it would be a damn sight better than many other legal substances such as tobacco, sugar, alcohol to name a few. […]
Richard Branson throws support behind Matt Noffs’ plans to create Australia’s first ice safe room
Following calls by Matt Noffs, Alex Wodak, Former Federal Police Commissioner Mick Palmer and Jacqui Lambie — I also urge both state governments and the Australian government to look into the establishment of safe rooms throughout the country,” he said. […]
Inside a Music Festival in a Country Where All Drugs Are Decriminalized
In Portugal, where the government’s approach to drugs is almost completely outside the realm of law enforcement, the climate at music festivals is different. Onsite drug-checking services test purity, and virtually no one is hassled for their supplements of choice. That’s because 15 years ago, a bold national policy was implemented where low-level possession of all drugs was decriminalized. […]
A Stark Choice For Filipino Drug Addicts: Surrender Or Risk Being Killed
The government says more than 700,000 people have surrendered. They’re fearful of what the president’s war on drugs might bring for them. That number has overwhelmed the government, which has neither the budget nor the infrastructure to help so many addicts. There are fewer than 50 government-accredited treatment and rehab centers in the entire country. […]
Troy Grant: the one NSW minister who should resign
At a harm minimisation summit at parliament house in August, an exasperated Harm Reduction Australia president Gino Vumbaca revealed that he had written to Grant inviting him to discuss issues of pill testing at music festivals. […]
Jay Z: the war on drugs is an epic fail
Why are white men poised to get rich doing the same thing African-Americans have been going to prison for? […]
In an Act of Extreme Sanity, Canada Approves Prescription Heroin
In Canada’s continued mission to become the woke sibling of the United States, Justin Trudeau’s government has just approved prescription heroin. The idea is to help severe addicts who haven’t responded to methadone, rehab, and other treatments. […]
Read the Global Commission on Drug Policy’s Open Letter to “Brutal” President Duterte
Former Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour and businessman and philanthropist Sir Richard Branson—all members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy—have written an open letter to President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, originally published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. […]
HRA letter to the Australian Government regarding extra-legal killings of alleged drug traffickers and drug users in the Philippines
HRA has expressed its strong concern over the callous extra-judicial killing spree that has to date left thousands dead. We have asked the Australian Government to make the strongest representations possible to the Philippines President and Government. […]
NZ cop calls for cannabis reform
“Another reason is, does punishing a user of a drug, any drug, actually impact on their decision to use that drug? I don’t think so. People use drugs for various reasons. The thought of being prosecuted for such behaviour is obviously something they have considered briefly and then decided not to worry about it.” […]
We have a moral obligation to allow drug analysis at music festivals
We have a moral obligation to minimise the risk of harm to festival-goers or “festies”. Health professionals have the technology to act on this moral imperative – drug testing. What they don’t have is permission from our politicians and law enforcement agencies. […]
SA stakeholders call to put pill-testing to the test
South Australian drug and alcohol service providers are urging a summit on the merits of festival pill testing after the controversial intervention was endorsed by a motion in the Senate earlier this month. […]
Bullets Trump Rehab as Asia Quickens ‘Failing’ War on Drugs
“There is so much scaremongering and hysteria surrounding the issue of drugs,” says Gloria Lai of the International Drug Policy Consortium, a global network of 154 non-governmental groups. “That’s a disincentive for challenging old ways of thinking.” […]
Ex-ice users lecturing school kids not the answer to preventing drug use
Australia’s broader drug policy is based on “harm minimisation”. This acknowledges it’s impossible to eliminate drugs from society and that most people will use drugs only occasionally and for a short period in their lives. So reducing harms associated with drug use is the priority. […]
Duterte and Obama clash over brutal crime war
The US leader calls for the rule of law after Rodrigo Duterte’s tirade on past US military killings in the Philippines. […]
What Happened When We Tested Women’s Drugs at a Music Festival
Research shows that most people don’t know what’s in the drugs they consume. We took some drug testing kits to a dance music festival to find out. […]
DRUGS, WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR? (OTHER THAN INTOLERANCE)
It takes courage to pursue drug law reform in Australia and most politicians are locked into non-evidence based populisms. […]
In Philippine Drug War, Little Help for Those Who Surrender
The government is proving woefully unprepared to help the flood of users pledging to kick their habits, leaving almost all of them to battle addiction largely on their own. The country’s meager drug treatment facilities have been overwhelmed, creating a new crisis for Mr. Duterte as he presses ahead with his violent campaign to rid the nation of drug dealers. […]
Rich, poor are all targets in drug war
The Catholic church, human rights groups and even UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have criticised Duterte for his apparent support of extrajudicial killings. Critics have also charged that the police are mainly killing poor people in the slums while wealthy and influential suspects have been spared. […]
Pill Testing, Drug Sniffer Dog Removal Motion Passes Senate
Unharm’s Will Tregoning hinted to Triple J’s Hack program this week that pill testing advocates may throw caution to the wind and begin unofficially testing pills at music festivals this summer, most likely in the ACT where he says police are more receptive to the idea than some other states. When pressed on this idea by HuffPost Australia, he again did not rule it out. […]
Medical marijuana to be legalised in Australia from November
The substance will remain strictly controlled – with only those prescribed the drug allowed to take it – following the landmark decision by the Therapeutic Goods Administration. […]
Greens Motion On Pill Tests & Drug Dogs Passes Senate — But Maybe Don’t Get Too Excited Yet
Ultimately, though, this all still has to happen with the co-operation of the state governments, who aren’t exactly super into the idea — so, yeah, we wouldn’t break out the party streamers just yet. […]
Marijuana Laws By County: Australia Medical Pot Set For Full Legalization
Long-brewing after a major grass-roots campaign, the use of the drug for medicinal purposes will be allowed beginning in November but will also be “strictly controlled,” according to the Canberra Times. […]