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Latest news: Drug reform

Pettersson introduces drug reform bill to the Assembly

Michael Pettersson MLA (ACT Labor) has introduced a bill to decriminalize possession of small amounts of hard drugs.

Drugs peak body welcomes Pettersson’s decriminalisation bill

The Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs Association ACT (ATODA) supports Michael Pettersson MLA’s proposed bill to decriminalise hard drugs.

Pettersson: Hard drug use a public health, not criminal justice, issue

Labor MLA Michael Pettersson wants to decriminalise personal possession of small amounts of hard drugs, like heroin, cocaine and ice, and see users directed to public health programs instead.

Service marks 25 years of lives lost to drugs

One day a year for 25 years, the loved ones of those who have lost their lives to illicit drugs have gathered at a memorial rock in Weston Park in remembrance and...

Drug policy series looks at decriminalisation

Should we change the way we police drug use? That was the question at the heart of the final event of the 2018 Canberra Drug Policy Series. The event, ‘What happened when Portugal...

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