Bunkdar
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Pill testing isn't a panacea, its about harm reduction and it would save some lives.Kids will continue to die because they're popping pills of questionable origin, not because of politics or money.
If the government funds a pill testing program for music festivals and a group of mates go to a testing station and they all have their gear tested, if the doctor doing the testing gives them the all clear and they ingest and one of the users dies, then what? Who's responsible, the kid who died, the doctor that told them their gear was ok or the government for funding the program that told them their pills are ok?
Can someone in this thread please step it out for me, in dot point format if needed, how decriminalisation would work, from whoa to go?
Who can grow and supply the drugs, government or private?
What drugs will and won't be included?
Who can buy, what age, how much and what price? Any restrictions at all on quantities per transactions?
Who guarantees the quality, and what does it get benchmarked against? Will we have an Australian Standard with minimum requirements like there is for everything else or will they be assigned a UN number like all other hazardous and dangerous goods and be accompanied with a MSDS?
With decriminalisation, what would be an offence, if any, for which you could be charged and incarcerated?
How do we treat addicts and how many bites of the cherry do they get if they need repeat treatments over the years? Who pays for the treatment?
That's a start, I'm sure other questions will pop into my head.
" Kids will continue to die because they're popping pills of questionable origin, not because of politics or money."
It is of questionable origin because of prohibition. Could people still die if it was 100% pharmacological grade ? Of course..... Just like other legal substances but the risks would be reduced.
I do think in NSW the governments response has been about politics and their donors.....They set up an " expert panel " to advise them but ruled out pill testing before they even started (why ?) and then put the the chair of of Liquor and gaming authority on the panel of three......?! That pretty much says it all to me
Can someone in this thread please step it out for me, in dot point format if needed, how decriminalisation would work, from whoa to go?
I think its already begun.
Countries like Portugal started going down this path a long time ago and legalization of cannabis is basically going on in the USA and Canada.
Even New Zealand recently made some changes and have moved ahead of us.
It will probably be a slow moving drip by drip process like this for a long time. Making small changes and then adapting with what is learnt in a evidence based approach.... rather then the ideological s**t show we have now.