Decriminalising illicit drugs – as Labor backbencher Michael Pettersson wants to do in the ACT – would be “a far more dangerous environment” to police, AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw told a Senate estimates committee this week.
The ACT Legislative Assembly’s Bill to decriminalise the use of heroin, ice, speed, cocaine and ecstasy has hit a legal roadblock, according to Gary Christian, research director of Drug Free Australia (DFA).
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.
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...
