❓ A parliamentary question regarding the WA government's two-plant cannabis policy and its perceived link to crime rates. The Premier defends the policy, citing its benefits over previous approaches.
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I also refer the Premier to the British Prime Minister’s about-face on his government’s drug policy. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and the member for Girrawheen to order for the first time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : As a doctor of many years standing who has had to deal with the enormous trauma associated with drug addiction, I ask whether the Premier is aware of the 2003 Drug Use Monitoring in Australia statistics of detainees at the East Perth lockup. The statistics reveal that 67 per cent of those detained for violent crime tested positive to cannabis, 90 per cent of those detained for robbery tested positive to cannabis, 59 per cent of those detained for aggravated assault tested positive to cannabis, and 80 per cent of those detained for car theft tested positive to cannabis. The long list continues with similar statistics. Will the Premier now concede that his government’s two-plant policy was a serious error of judgment, and will the Premier show some leadership to the 40 000-plus Western Australian families whose lives have been traumatised by this gateway drug? Dr G.I. GALLOP
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Let me ask the member a question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and the member for Girrawheen to order for the first time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : As a doctor of many years standing who has had to deal with the enormous trauma associated with drug addiction, I ask whether the Premier is aware of the 2003 Drug Use Monitoring in Australia statistics of detainees at the East Perth lockup. The statistics reveal that 67 per cent of those detained for violent crime tested positive to cannabis, 90 per cent of those detained for robbery tested positive to cannabis, 59 per cent of those detained for aggravated assault tested positive to cannabis, and 80 per cent of those detained for car theft tested positive to cannabis. The long list continues with similar statistics. Will the Premier now concede that his government’s two-plant policy was a serious error of judgment, and will the Premier show some leadership to the 40 000-plus Western Australian families whose lives have been traumatised by this gateway drug? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: Let me ask the member a question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and the member for Girrawheen to order for the first time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : As a doctor of many years standing who has had to deal with the enormous trauma associated with drug addiction, I ask whether the Premier is aware of the 2003 Drug Use Monitoring in Australia statistics of detainees at the East Perth lockup. The statistics reveal that 67 per cent of those detained for violent crime tested positive to cannabis, 90 per cent of those detained for robbery tested positive to cannabis, 59 per cent of those detained for aggravated assault tested positive to cannabis, and 80 per cent of those detained for car theft tested positive to cannabis. The long list continues with similar statistics. Will the Premier now concede that his government’s two-plant policy was a serious error of judgment, and will the Premier show some leadership to the 40 000-plus Western Australian families whose lives have been traumatised by this gateway drug? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: Let me ask the member a question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Dr G.G. JACOBS : As a doctor of many years standing who has had to deal with the enormous trauma associated with drug addiction, I ask whether the Premier is aware of the 2003 Drug Use Monitoring in Australia statistics of detainees at the East Perth lockup. The statistics reveal that 67 per cent of those detained for violent crime tested positive to cannabis, 90 per cent of those detained for robbery tested positive to cannabis, 59 per cent of those detained for aggravated assault tested positive to cannabis, and 80 per cent of those detained for car theft tested positive to cannabis. The long list continues with similar statistics. Will the Premier now concede that his government’s two-plant policy was a serious error of judgment, and will the Premier show some leadership to the 40 000-plus Western Australian families whose lives have been traumatised by this gateway drug? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: Let me ask the member a question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: Let me ask the member a question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Let me ask the member a question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and the member for Girrawheen to order for the first time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : As a doctor of many years standing who has had to deal with the enormous trauma associated with drug addiction, I ask whether the Premier is aware of the 2003 Drug Use Monitoring in Australia statistics of detainees at the East Perth lockup. The statistics reveal that 67 per cent of those detained for violent crime tested positive to cannabis, 90 per cent of those detained for robbery tested positive to cannabis, 59 per cent of those detained for aggravated assault tested positive to cannabis, and 80 per cent of those detained for car theft tested positive to cannabis. The long list continues with similar statistics. Will the Premier now concede that his government’s two-plant policy was a serious error of judgment, and will the Premier show some leadership to the 40 000-plus Western Australian families whose lives have been traumatised by this gateway drug? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: Let me ask the member a question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure and the member for Girrawheen to order for the first time. Dr G.G. JACOBS : As a doctor of many years standing who has had to deal with the enormous trauma associated with drug addiction, I ask whether the Premier is aware of the 2003 Drug Use Monitoring in Australia statistics of detainees at the East Perth lockup. The statistics reveal that 67 per cent of those detained for violent crime tested positive to cannabis, 90 per cent of those detained for robbery tested positive to cannabis, 59 per cent of those detained for aggravated assault tested positive to cannabis, and 80 per cent of those detained for car theft tested positive to cannabis. The long list continues with similar statistics. Will the Premier now concede that his government’s two-plant policy was a serious error of judgment, and will the Premier show some leadership to the 40 000-plus Western Australian families whose lives have been traumatised by this gateway drug? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: Let me ask the member a question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Dr G.G. JACOBS : As a doctor of many years standing who has had to deal with the enormous trauma associated with drug addiction, I ask whether the Premier is aware of the 2003 Drug Use Monitoring in Australia statistics of detainees at the East Perth lockup. The statistics reveal that 67 per cent of those detained for violent crime tested positive to cannabis, 90 per cent of those detained for robbery tested positive to cannabis, 59 per cent of those detained for aggravated assault tested positive to cannabis, and 80 per cent of those detained for car theft tested positive to cannabis. The long list continues with similar statistics. Will the Premier now concede that his government’s two-plant policy was a serious error of judgment, and will the Premier show some leadership to the 40 000-plus Western Australian families whose lives have been traumatised by this gateway drug? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: Let me ask the member a question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: Let me ask the member a question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Let me ask the member a question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands to order for the first time. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Dr G.I. GALLOP : Is it the case that before the policy was changed, difficulties regarding cannabis and drugs were presented to the Liberal Party? Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Several members interjected. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Dr G.I. GALLOP : Of course it was. The fallacy of the opposition question is that its members think that there was a golden age before the change of policy when people did not turn to cannabis. That is not true. We now have a better policy. Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Mr M.J. Birney : The better policy is that they all grow their own now. Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
Dr G.I. GALLOP : Finally, the Leader of the Opposition has spoken! He has said something! The policy is better now because young people will be directed into programs. It remains an offence. The government has provided a way to deal with the issue. The system that prevailed before Richard Court changed it had unintended consequences that were worse than the policy itself. Those unintended consequences related to the criminal conviction of people and their association with the criminal justice system. It had consequences that were not in the interests of the public. I stand by our law. It was the result of a drug summit. It is a good policy and the government stands by it.
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