Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform was formed as a direct result of heroin related deaths in the Australian Capital Territory. It believes that prohibition laws are more the problem than the solution. It seeks laws and policies which will eliminate the deaths and minimise the health and social harm.
FFDLR believes society should help people come through any drug using experience alive and as healthy as possible. In other words FFDLR is about promotion of life and wellbeing. This is more important than being "drug free".
Its members include parents, siblings, friends, past and present illicit drug users and other concerned members of the community.
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Transform launch new guide to legal regulation of drugs in the House of CommonsTransform is pleased to announce that their latest publication, ' After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation' has been launched at an event in the House of Commons on the 12th of November, with simultaneous launches taking place in the US (at the Drug Policy Alliance conference in Albuquerque ), Australia and Mexico. December will see further launch events in Brazil and the EU parliament. In conjunction with Transform, the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation are launching this document in Australia on Monday 15 November 2009 in the NSW Parliament House Press
Room.
Greens MLC Ian Cohen is sponsoring the launch, which will be undertaken by Prof Peter Baume (former Liberal Party Senator and Federal Minister and former Chancellor of the ANU) and Philip Adams (broadcaster and writer).
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Dr
Norm Stamper from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) spoke at a
public meeting in the Canberra Legislative Assembly on 26 October 2009.
His talk was entitled "The inhumane and unjust War
against Drugs". Listen to the audio of the
meeting here >> To supplement the audio click here for a PowerPoint presentation. |
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Current issues & events The German parliament passed the law
last Thursday evening (28 May 2009) following a careful trial and evaluation
in 6 cities. Eligible persons for admission to the treatment will be those
over 23 years of age and who have been addicted for more than five years and
who have failed to respond to other treatments. Germany has now joined Switzerland, The Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom in making prescription heroin a standard treatment for those severely addicted to opiates who have failed other treatments. In 2001 Portugal decriminalised all drugs including heroin and cocaine. There were many who predicted adverse outcomes such as rampant drug use, high rates of drug tourism, increased addiction and related illnesses. However some eight years later, none of these predictions have eventuated. More here>>>
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