The Greens are set to announce a plan to legalise, regulate and licence cannabis for recreational use in NSW — which will allow you to own up to six plants and light up anywhere where it’s legal to smoke tobacco.
“We are wasting millions each year and missing out on licencing revenues that the state desperately needs. It’s time we stopped taking such a backward approach to a drug that over one-third of Australians have used.”The plan will allow anyone over the age of 18 to buy cannabis at retail stores with a requirement to produce ID.
David Shoebridge says weed legalisation would pump $200 million a year into the state’s coffers. Picture: Monique Harmer/AAPThis money will be invested in public infrastructure like schools and hospitals with $75 million allocated to drug and alcohol treatment programs across the state, especially focused on regional and rural areas which currently have no such services.
It argues that legalising, regulating and licencing cannabis for adult use in NSW would remove criminals’ revenue streams and prevent people coming into contact with illegal drug dealers wherever possible. In Australia, cannabis arrests account for the largest proportion of illicit drug arrests. In 2015-16, there were almost 80,000 cannabis arrests. Of these arrests 90 per cent were consumers.
😂 the State that is currently at war with music festivals is going to legalise weed? Hahaha, yeah, okay.
Imagine the tax government can earn.....should have happened years ago, and while you are at it, bring in legal vaping with nicotine liquids. Time to grow up Australia
Good move by the Greens. This would increase the vote for the Greens because you would have to be spaced out on weed to want to vote for the Greens.
Great idea. We should have home grow cannabis & home brew alcohol equality. No need to punish, it can cause more harm to real ppl. They're non-violent & don't harm anyone else. Put the policing costs we're wasting into health & other. Auspol
Looks like grassy sheepturds.
Oh no we can't allow that. Then the illegal price will fall and we might reduce criminal activity, corruption even gang shootings, we could have that now could we.
Thats all we need a country of pot heads running around. Why cant thete put a motion forward about how to fix the debt, how to create jobs, how to fix power costs. No this is there no 1 priority. And changing Australia day.
We should be able to buy it legally, after all it's a plant, not a fkn drug!
The last thing people need with all the other problems of the world (although I agree for medical reason if scientifically proven )
Take out the grow, it will become like tobacco, can’t grow and will have huge taxes for government coffers
Firemonkey991 Who cares? We have highest rate of recreation use of any non legal country in world. Access easy as booze. Do you really think there's a retail hydroponic store in every 2nd suburb because we're fanatical about growing grapes? Legalisation just lowers quality & adds taxes. Bah 😧
May force be with Greens ✊🏼
𝙸𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚘𝚗 𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑. 𝙸'𝚖 𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚢 𝚗𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚍.
probably a good thing, may cut the use of the extremely dangerous stuff. prohibition only increases the desire to try it, plus makes it so profitable pushers prey on kids. Authorities should realise it by now from the heavy use of ice which is not advertised or cheap.
Seems to be working in San Francisco, that city is a public toilet now, they don’t call it dope for no reason
Its about time.
Yet another buying of votes!
Mix cannabis and alcohols! Gee!
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So they want a law they suits their lifestyle but disallows back burning to destroy everyone else's.
Let free the plant
Oh, and once it becomes a problem watch them tax the shit out of it. They're trying to do the same with sugar right now.
Not only we hv problems with drunk drivers next we will hv drug fuelled drivers
This is already the case so
While I agree with the complete decriminalisatuon of cannabis, I believe anything attached to the Greens would be disastrous. There'd be quite a significant catch involved.
How about all other states?
But how does that play out now that the Berkeley university can artificially produce these compounds in the lab?
Great another hazard on our roads
RomireTV If successful, I assume a plan to release people jailed for the doing the same thing wouldn't be to far behind no?
About time
It`s illegal preventing us and while you`re at it we want to grow our own tobacco too !!
Should have posted this at 4:20 You probably would have got more of a response
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