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Premier Backflip On Marijuana!
Posted by FoM on August 05, 1999 at 17:38:58 PT
By MishaI Schubert
Source: Australian News Network
DECRIMINALISING marijuana would be "absolutely wrong" and would lead to an increase in psychosis and depression, Jeff Kennett said yesterday. 
The Premier, who once supported such a move, was reacting to Labor's newly released drugs policy, which promises to decriminalise small amounts of the drug. "I'm quite convinced now that to decriminalise marijuana, as Labor are proposing, in small doses, is absolutely wrong and sends out the wrong message," he said. "It would lead to one of two things: a rise in the level of psychosis in many people, as well as an introduction to harder drugs, and would lead to greater depression among people." Mr Kennett also raised the possibility of legislation to set up a trial safe-injecting room for heroin as early as next month. "I've got officers looking at it. If we can introduce legislation in this session to set it up, if we believe that's the right way to go, we will do it," he said. His Government would only consider introducing one injecting room, saying the five rooms proposed by Labor "legitimises it, not knowing whether it works or not". In 1996, Mr Kennett tried to persuade his partyroom to support him in decriminalising marijuana. But despite Cabinet support for the move, his MPs voted overwhelmingly against it. Labor's revised drugs policy, released on Wednesday, supported the Penington Report's recommendation to decriminalise small amounts of cannabis in order to break the cycle between marijuana and harder drugs such as heroin.Pubdate: August 6, 1999 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/state/4343523.htmLabor Will Partially Decriminalise Marijuana - 8/04/99 http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread2345.shtml
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