“Prohibition has well and truly failed and governments all around the world are finally accepting this fact. Cannabis poses much less harm … compared to alcohol, tobacco and many prescription drugs.” @Greens #NSWpol
The Greens’ election platform proposes establishing a “NSW cannabis authority” to regulate the market and reduce harms. The party also wants to extinguish past cannabis convictions and reform mobile drug testing to gauge impairment rather than the presence of cannabis . Greens MP Cate Faehrmann says legalisation of cannabis is long overdue. “Prohibition has well and truly failed and governments all around the world are finally accepting this fact,” she said on Wednesday. “Cannabis poses much less harm to individual users and to our society compared to alcohol, tobacco and many prescription drugs.” A legalised cannabis market could bring in $6.5 billion in revenue for NSW over a decade, according to the federal Parliamentary Budgetary Office, and Ms Faehrmann says it would keep young people safe. The proposal comes as peak legal bodies recommended an end to punitive approaches to minor drug offences.
The Greens’ election platform proposes establishing a “NSW cannabis authority” to regulate the market and reduce harms. The party also wants to extinguish past cannabis convictions and reform mobile drug testing to gauge impairment rather than the presence of cannabis . Greens MP Cate Faehrmann says legalisation of cannabis is long overdue. “Prohibition has well and truly failed and governments all around the world are finally accepting this fact,” she said on Wednesday. “Cannabis poses much less harm to individual users and to our society compared to alcohol, tobacco and many prescription drugs.” A legalised cannabis market could bring in $6.5 billion in revenue for NSW over a decade, according to the federal Parliamentary Budgetary Office, and Ms Faehrmann says it would keep young people safe. The proposal comes as peak legal bodies recommended an end to punitive approaches to minor drug offences.
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