FRANKS: What is the status of the Office of Industrial Hemp and Medicinal Cannabis?

FRANKS: What is the status of the Office of Industrial Hemp and Medicinal Cannabis?

Illicit drug use has decreased from 14.2% in 2010 to 10.8% in 20166, with a similar decrease in Cannabis use, from 12% in 2010 to 5.9% in 2016.7 Despite this positive trend, children and young people in contact with me continue to express a range of concerns regarding the use of drugs and alcohol, as well as the support options that exist for them, their peers, family and community.

Farley’s statistics on prostitution are complied below: • the average entry age into prostitution is 13; • 65% to 95% of prostituted women have been sexually assaulted or raped before they entered prostitution; • nearly half of prostitutes were victims of incest; • 83% of prostituted women are addicted to substances such as heroin, cocaine, cannabis and alcohol; • 54% of prostitutes suffer from very severe depression; • 42% of prostitutes had at least committed one suicide attempt, many suffering from psychological disorders; • 75% of women in prostitution are or have been homeless at some point in their lives; • 70% to 95% of women in prostitution working in the street have been physically assaulted during the exercise of prostitution; • 41% of women were attacked in brothels; • 60% to 75% of people were raped while in prostitution; and • 85% and 95% want to leave prostitution, but have no other means of survival.

for medical purposes to include the trialing of cannabis to eligible patients: ????????????????

There was also some cannabis seized from that job.

We have had some minor cannabis expiation notices, but the bulk of it is what we call 'residual admits', so people have taken drugs within the last 24 hours or so, so that odour is still on them, but they don't have anything on them at the time.

The package proposed to remove some of the more minor cannabis and other drug offences from the District Court into the Magistrates Court.

On the Order of the Day being read for the adjourned debate on the question - That the Controlled Substances (Cannabis Decriminalisation) Amendment Bill be now read a second time: ????????????????

On the Order of the Day being read for the adjourned debate on the question - That the Controlled Substances (Controlled Drugs, Precursors and Cannabis) Amendment Bill be now read a second time: ????????????????