The Greens state conference has confirmed what we always knew - the Greens are soft on drugs.
Following their policy announcement earlier this year to provide free quality assurance for drug pushers at music festivals, they yesterday passed a motion to remove criminal penalties for personal drug use.
The Greens join Labor’s "soft on drugs" stance, confirmed at the Labor state conference earlier this year, when their new Platform spoke favourably of "re-opening the debate on prohibition."
Greens and Labor just don't get it - illegal drugs are illegal for a reason. Anyone who has seen the effect of ice, heroin, or cannabis, has seen their impact on not only children, individuals and families, but entire communities.
Drugs bring bigger social problems like family violence and children in care and their use needs to be eradicated, not normalised as Labor and now the Greens are proposing.