Policy Statements

Legalisation and Regulation of Cannabis

A legal and regulated cannabis market requires:

An immediate moratorium on all arrests of cannabis consumers
Reforms allowing consumers and/or carers to grow cannabis in their gardens or indoors
All historical personal-use cannabis criminal records to be expunged
Reform of drug driving laws where impairment, not presence, is tested
Road safety laws to be amended to allow for a defence for medicinal users
A state-based licensing system covering all commercial operations including production, manufacturing and retail/dispensing
An amnesty period for current grey-market growers to transition to become licensed producers with ongoing support provided to boutique growers, small producers and compassion clubs. Subsidies to incentivise start-ups and not-for-profits
State-regulated affordable testing facilities available for producers, growers and consumers. Such services to be reasonably priced, easy to access with all restrictions currently hampering testing to be lifted
A unified independent cannabis authority overseeing personal-use cannabis and hemp production to include end-users and those experienced in cultivation and production in decision-making processes.