Australia – NSW Bar: “Cannabis should be decriminalised”

NSW Bar Association president Dominic Toomey SC said criminalisation has not been an effective deterrent, and drug use should be addressed “outside of the criminal justice system”. “Criminalisation does not help; it harms,” Toomey said. “The criminalisation of the use and possession of small quantities of cannabis, and other drugs, fails to address the fact […]