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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Landmark NSW inquiry condemns ineffective drug laws and calls for decriminalisation

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State government has already ruled out many recommendations of its own inquiry, including pill testing and abolishing sniffer dogs

A New South Wales government-commissioned special inquiry into drug use has slammed the criminalisation of drug users as a “profound flaw” in the state’s criminal justice system and recommended the complete decriminalisation of drug possession in the state.

Released on Thursday, the inquiry has described the state’s current laws as “tired” and “lacking in imagination”, and called for the introduction of pill testing, the abolition of drug dogs at music festivals and an expansion of medically supervised injection rooms in the state.

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