Well said, Alan, couldn’t agree more.

Poor o’l Al B,

Not only but also. Revolving doors at police stations for drug offenders, great idea not Al.
This sysjcurrently in use in San Francisco. Half a million SF inhabitants fled the mayhem of the city, and moved to predominantly Republican States such as Texas for safety, while the flotsam and jetsam from across the US moved in!

This is a stark example of why people like yourself that play to madness such as laissez faire drug control should not be heeded.

Parts of the city are cordoned off as anarchism rules, and life for local businesses is so grim they have threatened a tax strike until law and order returns the city to some semblance of civilised society.

Ruling society from the bottom up fails at the point of drug addiction.
The kindest place for drug addicts is in jail when caught breaking the law. The kindest place.

Dan.

The difference is that the proposed law would be Australia wide unlike the case cited, San Francisco.
There would be no sudden influx as one can’t very well travel to Australia in a beaten up old car.
When hunting one has to be very observant when in “plantation” country and avoid cannabis plots as one may run into the cultivators, who don’t like hunters, because hunters who do stumble onto a patch, may be under police observation and then they’d have to explain why they didn’t report the matter; then they’d lose their firearms licence as ‘not being fit and proper persons’.
No one wants to lose their licence so prudent hunters take a few bearings and report the matter.

A homily of platitudes goes in the wrong direction to solving the social catastrophe of drug use and addiction.

Unless the slide of the West into the garbage of irrelevance is halted in positive moral directions, situations of the drug trade and drug use will continue to escalate; (viz SF).

Man is a spiritual being. His God has been replaced by the work of those with good intentions, exactly like poor o’l Al B, who castigate the importance of religion towards a stable and meaningful direction for society. Religious observances were once a core value to Western culture as a stabilising form.

Spiritual man is a dead dodo of woke new culture. I’m happy to see a spark of recognition among NSW politicians resisting the call for soft approaches towards drug control.

Dan

Drug users are not the problem, but drug lords are.
Alan B,
One's as guilty as the other ! No excuse for either, the real fault lies with those do-gooders who object to common, natural discipline ! The anti-National Service crowd is probably the most guilty !

So Canberra as usual have got the wrong angle. Then the Lillians of this world want to copy them.

God help us.