NSW system of drug depenalisation: A modest step towards inevitable decriminalisation - Criminal Law
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. At a 30 November meeting, NSW government cabinet ministers discussed a three-tiered system of depenalisation for the offence of personal drug possession. First spruiked by attorney general Mark Speakman, the step-in-the-right-direction policy gained broad, but not unanimous, support. A conservative minister went on to leak word of it to the Seven Network. It then misrepresented the policy as decriminalisation, whereas the government proposal doesn't aim to remove the criminal offence altog...
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