Policymakers will have to think carefully about pricing, taxation and providing discounts for buying in bulk. Else legalisation may not deliver a substantial tax windfall after all.
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Holiday destinations are creating cannabis-related events and activities to capture a new travel trend.
Out of the 400 plus chemical compounds in the cannabis plant, CBD and THC are only the most well-known, and researched, cannabinoids.
Prices are surging amid shortages and panic-buying – and we could soon be facing a public health disaster.
The ACT legislation conflicts with federal laws, which still prohibit the possession of cannabis. It’s unclear how police will respond and whether users could still be charged.
What will the new legislation mean for cannabis users in the ACT? And will other jurisdictions follow?
To fight the black market, the price of legal cannabis has to be relatively low. But if nothing else is done, the black market will persist.
Most people assume drugs are illegal because they are dangerous, but the reasons aren’t related to their relative risk or harm.
Cannabis-infused food products could shake up the food industry.
If South Africa’s argument in court is that marijuana causes harm, it deserves to lose. The real question it should ask is whether criminal prohibition is the effective way forward.
The figures don’t really add up.
Smoking cannabis can cause addition, impaired memory and even psychosis.
Some of the greatest harms from using illicit drugs are because they are illegal.
Successive governments haven’t always followed expert advice, but they have in the new bill to end ‘legal highs’.
It is one thing for a jurisdiction to decide that it no longer supports the prohibition of cannabis; it is another to figure out how to establish and regulate a legal cannabis market. Uruguay became the…
About one-quarter of Australians support the legalisation of cannabis. And advocates often point to the potential of raising tax revenue from sales as part of their argument. But there has been limited…
The legalisation of medical marijuana does not lead to increased crime and may even lead to lower rates of murder and assault…
We appear to be on the cusp of a major change in the laws surrounding the use and sale of cannabis. Several nations have now decriminalised usage, and the first steps toward full legalisation have taken…
It is easy to despair of the low quality of public debate on drugs policy in the UK. Some of the loudest voices reflect fixed views and make opportunistic use of any fragment of evidence that happens to…
We should all be concerned about our laws on illegal drugs because they affect all of us – people who use drugs; who have family members using drugs; health professionals seeing people for drug-related…
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Professor & Specialist in Drug Policy, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Professor of Quantitative Criminology, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor in Criminology, Loughborough University
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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Co-Director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Centre and Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Associate Professor in Law, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Health Policy & Management, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy & Senior Fellow, Leonard D Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, University of Southern California
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Teesside University
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Reader in Economics, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
