Global Commission on Drugs: Report

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pdf document

Worth reading (and then rolling up like a newspaper and ramming up the arse of every politician you happen across).

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Australia

The state of Western Australia introduced a

decriminalization scheme for cannabis in 2004, and

researchers evaluated its impact by comparing prevalence

trends in that state with trends in the rest of the country.

The study was complicated by the fact that it took place in

a period when the use of cannabis was in general decline

across the country. However, the researchers found that

this downward trend was the same in Western Australia,

which had replaced criminal sanctions for the use or

possession of cannabis with administrative penalties,

typically the receipt of a police warning called a ‘notice

of infringement’. The authors state:

“The cannabis use data in this study suggest that,

unlike the predictions of those public commentators

who were critical of the scheme, cannabis use in

Western Australia appears to have continued to decline

despite the introduction of the Cannabis Infringement

Notice Scheme.”30

Thought that was interesting.

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