NSW to 'decriminalise' illicit drugs

[Black Orchid]

People in NSW caught with small quantities of illicit drugs could soon be let off with a simple warning in a major change to policy.

7NEWS understands that if someone is caught with a quantity small enough to be classified as “personal use”, they may not be charged.

The new policy is set to give people caught with small amounts of drugs three chances, it’s understood.

In the first instance, they’re caught, a warning will be handed out.

If they’re caught a second and third time within a 12-month period, they will be fined.

But if they’re caught a fourth time within a year of the first instance, they will face a criminal penalty.

If the subsequent instances occur outside the 12-month period, the count resets.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw/minor-ill ... -c-1692972

Good move.

[sprintcyclist]

yes, overall a good idea.

I would like to see further developments.

[Valkie]

Absolute stupidity.

It's bad enough that fools take drugs illegally.

But to allow them to drift off into a drug induced stupor until the murder someone or destroy something is pure and simple stupidity.

The grubberment has simply given up.
Cops are ineffective
Courts corrupt and judges stupid
Public servants on the take.

Drug dealers doing great business.
And paying lots of bribes.

[Texan]

I can't understand why government would legalize drugs without creating a way to tax them. You still have an unknown product with unknown side effects and nobody held responsible for ill effects.

[Neferti]

Drugs will be DECRIMINALISED, not made legal. Cannabis has been decriminalised in Canberra for ages but it is still illegal. You just don't get a criminal record if caught using or selling the stuff.

https://www.act.gov.au/cannabis/home

Decriminalisation. Decriminalisation takes away the status of criminal law from those acts to which it is applied. This means that certain acts no longer constitute criminal offences. With regard to drugs, it is usually used to refer to demand; acts of acquisition, possession and consumption.

[Outlaw Yogi]

About time!

I'm currently in the market for some roids 'coz I've got a badly busted shoulder.

In my late teens I said "I can imagine as an old bloke sitting on a railway platform watching the kids come down to buy their weed from vending machines" ... Just last week due to a weed shortage in Bundy an associate got someone with the requisite medical probs to obtain some govt controlled (18% THC) medicinal cannabis .. not cheap though - $210 for 10 grams + $190 for the script.

I 'spoze the drug lords will be running this country before I'm dead.