abc.net.au/news/drug-laws-end-to-war-on-drugs-qld-advocates-say/102235406Queensland parliament is poised to pass legislative changes that will divert thousands of people out of the courts and into health and education programs each year in a landmark shift in the state's approach to illicit substances that new polling shows has popular support.
The state government estimates 17,000 Queenslanders could avoid prosecution in the first year of implementation with the majority never having contact with police again. "You start accumulating possession charges, multiple possession charges, and that makes you more targeted for policing and you slowly become more 'othered' from society."Sally said she has been off heroin for more than three years and is working and studying.
She said the changes are a "monumental decision" to "improve the lives of people who use drugs and their communities".
In a democracy you get the government you deserve.
permissive legislation never ends well this opens the floodgates brissy to be san fransisco in 5,4,3,2,1...
An interesting story given the officially unapproved experimental drugs forced on Australians via job mandates and other threats by state governments and the former federal government and opposition that pretended the coercion wasn’t happening.
What a joke wait till there really hooked then get off putting police officers an the public at risk this is real life people you get one chance
typical labor pandering to their methy base.
Crime rates will go down when you change laws and decriminalise things lol
Four chances. How many chances should people get