PARTY POLICY
Legalisation and Regulation of Cannabis in Australia.
Cannabis must be treated in the same way as alcohol and tobacco.
CONSIDER: ‘The Grape Theory’
- Treat Cannabis like grapes
- grow as many grapes as you want, no licence
- make as many of those grapes as you want into wine, no licence
- share that wine with your friends and family, no licence
- HOWEVER the moment you want to sell some of that wine you require a licence, show quality control and safety for human consumption, and pay the appropriate fees
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.