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Greens leader backs decriminalisation of ice
News Corp reports Federal leader Richard Di Natale and Queensland Senator Larissa Waters will tell a national drug summit that ice addicts should be able to use the drug without facing police action. […]
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Heroin prescriptions help Vancouver addicts rebuild their lives
A B.C. Supreme Court decision allowing staff at a Vancouver addiction clinic to prescribe heroin is producing positive results, and advocates want to see the program expand across the country. […]
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Greens leader Richard Di Natale wants pill testing in Australia
Federal Greens leader, Senator Richard Di Natale, has reiterated his calls for Australia to introduce testing of illicit drugs. […]
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Why deaths won’t stop the party: Drug test kits gain popularity as festival overdoses soar
As hospital admissions for ecstasy and MDMA use soar in Australia, the chilling stories of festival overdoses are failing to stop young people risking their lives. […]
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A handful of nails for the coffin of the ‘failed and counter-productive’ war on drugs
The War on Drugs has proven to be “a failed and counter-productive strategy”. […]
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We can’t eradicate drugs, but we can stop people dying from them
Not only is what Australia doing not working, we’re falling behind the rest of the world and what evidence says is best to ensure we have fewer deaths from illicit drugs. […]
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BOCSAR crime stats boss Don Weatherburn calls for lighter prison sentences
The state’s top statistician has called for a complete overhaul of the way crime and imprisonment is addressed in NSW. […]
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The war on drugs has become an embarrassment of Orwellian proportions
Another week passes and, somewhere in Australia, another announcement by a Justice Minister is made on how we are winning the so-called ‘War on Drugs’. […]
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Landmark decision opens first needle exchange in conservative Orange County
The California Department of Public Health has approved the first ever needle exchange in Orange County. […]
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A Maryland lawmaker’s paradigm-shifting approach to the heroin and pain pill crisis
Veteran Maryland Delegate Dan Morhaim (D-Baltimore County) has just introduced a package of bills that would begin to move the state’s posture toward drug use from prohibition to public health and harm reduction. […]