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