Legalise Cannabis Victoria MPs have threatened to withdraw their support for the Labor Government on key policy issues after a heavy police presence and arrests at a 4/20 event in Melbourne’s Flagstaff Gardens. David Ettershank and Rachel Payne, whose votes are crucial in helping bills or motions across the line for Jacinta Allan’s ruling party, said the decision to employ a major police presence at the event “crossed a rubicon”.
“The relationship between Legalise Cannabis and the government is reaching an all-time low. We are taking very personally the arrest of our people which is totally at odds with the supposed cannabis-friendly veneer that the government projects”. In the Herald Sun, he added: “Here we are on a Saturday afternoon spending a tonne of money policing a few people enjoying a bit of weed in the park”.
“We are genuinely pissed off at this government. We’ve reached a point where we don’t know how to do business with this government anymore”.
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