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Non-intoxicating cannabis products are safe and well tolerated by those who use them, so why not lower the clinical threshold for their manufacture and sale?
The voices of recreational cannabis users are curiously missing from the official debate about legalisation.
Young people often swallow any drugs they have on them when they encounter police, risking overdose to avoid a drug possession charge.
Around 75,000 New Zealanders have been sentenced for a cannabis-related offence since 1975. With the drug more popular than ever, is it time we let the evidence guide our decisions?
Overseas evidence suggests cannabis law reform should favour caution and strict enforcement of the new rules.
Medical cannabis in the UK? Don’t hold your breath.
The Home Office has announced a review of the law around medical cannabis in Britain – so what does the law say?
Victoria should implement a new report’s recommendation to allow peers to distribute clean injecting equipment, but it needs to go further to ensure safe drug use in prison.
Change Agents: The push to legalise medicinal cannabis
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In 2016 three Australian states and the Commonwealth passed laws to legalise the growing of medicinal cannabis. It was an extraordinary result for a campaign that struggled for decades to gain traction.
Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm told parliament that of the $1.5 billion spent annually on drug law enforcement, 70% is attributable to cannabis. Are those numbers correct?
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Professor of Policy and Health, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor in Criminal Justice and Faculty Director of Public Engagement, University of Kent
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Associate Professor in Drug Policy and Health Law, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor and Director of the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, Flinders University
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Senior Project Manager and Senior Researcher, National Centre for Education & Training on Addiction, Flinders University
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Professor and Director, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Pediatric Emergency Physician, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University
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Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW
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PhD candidate (health), Dalhousie University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor in Social Studies of Science and Health, in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences,, University of Bath
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Director, Centre for Social Research in Health, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
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Professor of Criminology, Ghent University
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PhD candidate, College of Health, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor, Centre for Military and Security Law, Australian National University