In 2023, the ACIC conservatively estimated that there were approximately 200,000 illicit firearms, comprising 190,000 long arms and 10,000 handguns, in the domestic illicit market. 16 Board of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission | Chair Annual Report 2023–24 Table 3.1: Key substances in the Australian illicit drug market 2023–24 Substance Market characteristics Cannabis Serious and organised crime (SOC) groups are well established in the Australian cannabis market, although they do not dominate it.

Part 2—Variation of Controlled Substances (General) Regulations 2000 4—Insertion of regulation 8AA After regulation 8 insert: 8AA—Prescribed equipment (section 33LA) (1) For the purposes of section 33LA of the Act— (a) the following equipment (being equipment that is, or may at some stage have been, capable of being used for hydroponic cannabis cultivation) is prescribed: 2 (i) metal halide lights, high pressure sodium lights and mercury vapour lights of 400 watts or greater; (ii) ballast boxes; (iii) devices (including control gear, lamp mounts and reflectors) designed to amplify light or heat; (iv) carbon filters designed to filter air within a room, or from 1 area of a building to another or to outside; (v) cannabis bud or head strippers; (vi) units designed to contain plants and rotate around a light source so that the plants grow hydroponically while being exposed to a consistent degree of light or heat or both; and (b) the following equipment

This included the establishment of two Select Committees (Artificial Intelligence and Endometriosis) and one Joint Committee (Adelaide University) in addition to the Select Committee (Access to Urinary Tract Infection Treatment) and Joint Committee (Legalisation of Medicinal Cannabis) that were carrying over their inquiries from the previous reporting period. 2 This increased activity was reflected in a two and four fold increase in the number of meetings and total meeting time respectively and a five fold increase in the number of witnesses appearing before Committees compared to the activity of Select, Joint and Sessional Committees in the previous reporting period.

From 30 April 1987, a legislative change allowed the expiation of certain cannabis offences.

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Substances (Controlled Drugs, Precursors and Plants) Regulations 2014 The Advisory Council reviewed and advised the Minister about amendments to the regulations, related to: o new psychoactive substances that may cause dependence in humans or are of exceptional danger to humans including designer benzodiazepines, fentanyl derivatives, phenibut, and a synthetic opioid analgesic and declaration of these as controlled drugs; o the potential for synthesis of fentanyl derivatives using precursors of fentanyl and declaration of these as controlled precursors; o the salts of analogues and homologues of substances declared as controlled drugs would also be captured as controlled drugs; o the change to the Food Standards Code on 12 November 2017 that permits use of hemp seed and hemp seed products as food; o the establishment of a licensing scheme for cultivation, processing and supply of low THC hemp under the Industrial Hemp Act 2017; o clarification of prescribed amounts for cannabis

The Advisory Council reviewed and advised the Minister about amendments to the regulations related to:  Cannabis and tetrahydrocannabinols for human therapeutic use  Low THC Cannabis sativa seeds and seed products as food  Uniform Controls over Schedule 5, 6 and 7 poisons  Remaking the Controlled Substances (Pesticides) Regulations 2003.

This work significantly developed understanding of the national markets for methylamphetamine, drug analogues and novel psychoactive substances, performance and image enhancing drugs, illicit pharmaceuticals and cannabis.

Supt BAULDERSTONE: The items that were booked in were 20 hydroponic globes, 12 electrical transformers, 10 hydroponic light shades, one magnet, one cannabis grinder, $215 in cash, another $85 in cash, a watch, paperwork in regard to cannabis cultivation, and two lots of two protective orange gloves.

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