
Issue No 14		21 May 1999

News

Drug Summit Misses Tokin’ Gesture

While the Drug Summit appears on course for some meaningful evolutionary reform, one idea close to Workers Online's heart did not get a guernsey -- Amsterdam-style coffee shops.

The proposal, in a submission the Enmore Branch of the ALP sent to all Labor members before the summit began, argues coffee-shops selling cannabis should provide the funding base for harm minimisation programs for abuse of harder drugs.

"We should look at the Amsterdam cafes where cannabis is sold under license," the submission argues.

"By setting up such cafes under strict licence the links between organised crime and cannabis would be further broken and users would know what they are getting in terms of THC content."

"Money raised by the sale of cannabis in the cafes would then be channelled into running the proposed special health clinics and carrying out heroin trials."

The submission also argues that cannabis should be allowed to be grown under strict license, overseen by the State Government.

"This will also provide employment to the depressed rural sector," the proposal argues, "beside the leaves and seeds of the cannabis sold to the cafes, the left overs can be used for the hemp industry."

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International: Paddy's Payback
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Campus: Tales from the Frontline
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