Drug reform
Opinion
Opinion
Legalising cocaine would give ganglords what they fear most: Centrelink
Our communities are vulnerable and our streets are unsafe because the war on drugs policy empowers drug gangs rather than stopping them.
- by Cate Faehrmann
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Labor under pressure for drug reform after Sydney’s spate of shootings
The state government has been accused of dragging its heels on key drug reform as Sydney grapples with a spate of cocaine-related shootings.
- by Amber Schultz
Queensland police add cocaine to list of roadside drug tests
Motorists in Queensland will now be tested to see if they have cocaine in their system, with the drug added to the list of illicit substances that roadside police drug vans are set up to detect.
- by Kathryn Magann
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Victorian Parliament
‘Our name says it all’: Legalise Cannabis in joint offensive
Crossbench MPs will simultaneously introduce bills seeking to legalise cannabis for personal use in Victoria, NSW and Western Australia.
- by Rachel Eddie
‘People are dying’: CBD residents call for rush on second injecting room
The Yes In My Back Yard movement – or YIMBYs – say they have a responsibility to push for safe-injecting room to be built in the Melbourne CBD.
- by Cara Waters
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Victorian Parliament
‘I better not drop this’: The medical director delivering Victoria’s first injecting room
Dr Nico Clark admits he had no idea how challenging it would be to run the North Richmond safe injecting room, especially the difficulties of getting the local community onside with the project.
- by Rachel Eddie
Richmond safe injecting room made permanent after late-night vote
A bill to make Victoria’s first safe injecting room permanent in North Richmond passed the state’s upper house in a late-night vote on Thursday.
- by Rachel Eddie
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Pill Testing
‘Join the movement’: Minister calls for pill testing trial in NSW
Pill testing at music festivals is on Rose Jackson’s radar ahead of Labor’s drug summit, despite Premier Chris Minns’ outward caution on drug law reform.
- by Angus Thomson and Michael McGowan
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Drugs
‘Regulate it’: Minns once argued for legalised cannabis in NSW
When he was a shadow minister in 2019, Chris Minns argued for the legalisation of cannabis. Now the NSW premier says he’s changed his mind.
- by Michael McGowan
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Drugs
Labor wants a drugs summit. But experts say we’ve already had one
In comments echoed by the NSW legal fraternity, ice inquiry commissioner Professor Dan Howard urged the government not to “reinvent the wheel”.
- by Lucy Cormack
NSW looks at driver monitoring tech for medicinal cannabis users
New technology could see driver eye monitoring used to measure impairment as medicinal cannabis users and advocates call for an overhaul of NSW’s laws.
- by Amber Schultz