It’s time to acknowledge that the ‘war on drugs’ has been a colossal failure and that the social and economic costs of cannabis prohibition far outweigh the potential effects of legalisation. Despite decades of prohibition at least 1 in 3 people in NSW have used cannabis in their lifetime and 1 in 10 in the last 12 months.
The Greens plan will legalise the personal possession and use of cannabis for people 18 years and over. We will create a regulated cannabis market in NSW to reduce the harms from cannabis use while also preventing the over-commercialisation of the cannabis market by large corporations.
Legalising cannabis will increase tax revenue to the government, create new jobs and inject potentially billions into the NSW economy. It will end the cannabis black market, reduce police spending on the war on drugs and redirect resources towards drug treatment and other social services.
Here's our plan:
- Legalise and regulate cannabis for adults in NSW
- Reform Mobile Drug Testing to test for impairment instead of presence.
- Generate up to $9 billion in revenue over a decade for NSW.
- Allow households to grow up to 12 cannabis plants.
- Regulate cannabis products to reduce harms with health warnings, CBD/THC content labelling and prohibitions on advertising.
- Establish a NSW Cannabis Authority to regulate the cannabis market with the aim to reduce the harms caused by cannabis and prevent the dominance of the industry by large corporations.
- Allow for cannabis social clubs of at least 5 people which can grow 12 plants per member up to 200 plants.
- Extinguish past cannabis convictions.
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