Published: June 25, 2019
Home affairs warns of ‘perverse outcomes’ as health and legal experts say criminalising addicts may be causing more harm than amphetamine use itself
The Department of Home Affairs has pushed back on growing calls to decriminalise amphetamine-type drugs, warning any move to change state laws would create “legal ambiguity” and lead to “perverse outcomes”.
A New South Wales government-commissioned inquiry into the drug ice and other amphetamine-type stimulants is considering legalisation or decriminalisation as a means of addressing growing prevalence of crystal methamphetamine addiction in parts of the state.
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