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PARTY POLICY

Party Values

We advocate to protect and uphold

  • Civil liberties
  • Privacy
  • Human rights
  • Personal Freedoms
  • Anti-Discrimination/ Tolerance
  • Compassion

Legalisation and Regulation of Cannabis.

Cannabis should be treated in a similar way to alcohol and tobacco, re labelling and advertising, but not subject to the ever-increasing levels of tax paid by consumers on these products. Street cannabis has maintained its current price levels for decades seeing only slight variations or increases depending on availability and quality. Higher prices on legal products would see consumers return to the illicit market.

  • 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.

Learn about our three-stage plan for the legalisation of Cannabis in Australia

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Human Rights Issues

Published: 11 September, 2023

Legalising cannabis would remove it from the criminal justice system. Treating cannabis as a crime has resulted in human rights violations disproportionately affecting the most marginalised sectors of society Dignity is a...
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Environment

Published: 11 September, 2023

Hemp has some impressive environmental credentials. It grows faster than most weeds, negating the need for herbicides and it is fairly pest resistant. Two crops can be grown per season. It is...
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Economic

Published: 11 September, 2023

Encourage farmers to cultivate hemp as a major renewable, sustainable agricultural resource that can feed people and value added industries will create jobs. Hemp will both complement and reduce the need for...
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Personal Use

Published: 11 September, 2023

Treat personal use of cannabis by adults similar to alcohol – plain packaging, age restrictions on use, no advertising. The medical cannabis delivery system is a postcode lottery. Creating options for home-grow...
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Policing, and Justice

Published: 11 September, 2023

The war on drugs has been an abject failure worldwide. Millions of taxpayers’ dollars have been wasted on “harm minimisation” policies that have failed to reduce demand or supply. They have instead...
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Health

Published: 11 September, 2023

Cannabis and hemp are known for their health benefits and since they have been removed from our diet, we have seen an explosion of diseases such as cancer, dementia and autoimmune conditions...
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