Video – Achieving Drug Law Reform: Lessons from COVID-19
Fair Treatment Campaign Video – A discussion with the Global Commission on Drug Policy with members Hons. Helen Clark and Geoff Gallop.
Youth Mental Health submission by FFDLR
Inquiry into Youth Mental Health in the ACT by the Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Youth Affairs Submission of Families and Friends for Drug...
Decriminalise Drugs
The release of wastewater data revealing an overall increase in drug use shows the government’s illicit drug policies, based on law enforcement and dedicated to...
FFDLR Newsletter May 2020
Articles in this issue include: Emergency action in response to Covid-19 Fair Treatment campaign – Watch “Half a Million Steps” online Global Commission of Drug...
EMERGENCY ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC
COVID-19 demands action and provides the opportunity to get the most disadvantaged and needy out of prisons. FFDLR CALLS FOR 1.The establishment of clinics in...
Enforcement of Drug laws – Refocusing on organised crime elites
In this first report of the decade, the Global Commission on Drug Policy outlines how the current international drug control regime works for the benefit...
Coronavirus threat highlights the need for prison reform
Letter published in the Canberra Times on 26 March 2020 The corona virus emergency underlines the public health threat of the crowded ACT prison overflowing...
UNSW academics say government response to Ice inquiry ‘disappointing’
Read the full story here by DIANE NAZAROFF AND EMI BERRY The NSW government has already ruled out five recommendations from the Ice inquiry, including...
How Many More Experts Must Recommend Pill Testing Before The Government Makes It Happen?
Read the full story here by Shelley Smith The government has finally released the findings from the Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug ‘Ice’....
Pressure for permanent pill-testing service in Canberra after successful festival trials
Read the full story here By Tom Lowrey A shopfront, a discrete corner of a pharmacy, a pop-up site or the back of a van —...