Section 3 Australia’s criminal environment 19 3 Table 5: Key substances in the Australian illicit drug market Substance Market characteristics Cannabis Serious and organised crime groups are well established in the Australian cannabis market, which is robust and profitable.

A further amendment was sought by the Parole Board with respect to the prescription of medicinal cannabis and other drugs of addiction via minute to the previous Minister for Correctional Services.

Expert evidence from Professor Jason White,4 pharmacologist, was to the effect that the concentrations of these drugs were consistent with normal therapeutic use, with only mild effects and very little or no impairment of Mr Robertson’s driving ability, either individually or in combination. 10 Also found in Mr Robertson’s blood was 2μg delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) per L.5 This is the major psychoactive component of cannabis and may be detected in low quantities up to a day after consumption of cannabis.

Ms ANTCLIFF: We haven't had any discussions on this particular case and we are, as we said at the beginning, working through what oversight measures are agreeable between the Tourism Commission and DTTI. 6831 The CHAIRPERSON: A different topic—and I think we will come back to that, but time is getting on: is the Office of Industrial Hemp and Medicinal Cannabis based in DTTI?

Assoc. with Physi- Mental Retarda- tion No Psychia- tric Diagnosis Totals Total Per Cent of Total Per Cent Change from cal Cond. 1973 -74 Addiction M F 4 2 4 2 446 111 13.08 325 +0.68 +33.73 No Addiction M F 39 30 181 140 33 34 28 8 184 146 18 14 1 360 1 493 39.88 43.78 +3.42 +1-70 Total M F 43 32 185 142 33 34 28 8 184 146 18 14 1 806 1 604 52.96 47.04 +2.73 +3.42 Total 75 327 67 36 330 32 3 410 +3.05 26 TABLE 17 IN-PATIENTS-TOTAL ADMISSIONS, 1974 -75 Diagnosis by Addiction to Drugs Diagnosis Senile and Pre - senile Dementia Alcoholic Psychosis Other Organic Psychoses Schizo- phrenia and Para- noid States Depressive Psychosis Other Functional Psychoses Depressive Neurosis Other Neuroses and Psychoso- matic Disorders Alcoholism Type of Drug Opium M - - - - - - - Synthetic Analgesics M - - - - - - - Barbiturates MF-- -- _- -- -- -- - - - Other Hypnotics M - - - - - - - - Cocaine MF-- -- -- -- - -- -- -- - Cannabis Sativa MF-- -- -- -

Legal Services Commission of South Australia Annual Report 2016-17 023 2014-15 2015-16 Traffic offences Alcohol / drugs and driving Alcohol / drugs and driving Traffic offences Good behaviour bonds Good behaviour bonds Common driving offences Rights of an arrested person Family law Cannabis – use and supply Top five online legal information topics Facts and figures Community Legal Education Services 2016-17 2016-17 Traffic offences Alcohol/ drugs and driving Suspended sentence Rights of an arrested person Bail applications Website page views 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 Law Handbook 1 118 851 1 364 068 1 545 363 2 089 860 LSC website 708 019 795 411 984 352 931 234 Total 1 826 870 2 159 479 2 529 715 3 021 094 Fences and the Law 9 733 Do Not Knock 6 218 Trees and the Law 5 816 Family Law and You 2 969 Community Titles 2 873 Top five publications distributed Community Legal Education 2015-16 2016-17 Sessions 178

I am interested in the new Office of Industrial Hemp and Medicinal Cannabis.

REPORT OF ACTIONS TAKEN BY SA HEALTH FOLLOWING CORONIAL INQUEST INTO THE DEATH OF MR RICKY BAIS ON 22 AUGUST 2007 Report prepared by SA Health 25 November 2010 hiltosh Daily Tabling Stamp 1 REPORT OF ACTIONS TAKEN BY SA HEALTH IN RESPONSE TO THE DEPUTY STATE CORONER’S RECOMMENDATIONS ON 12 AUGUST 2010 INTO THE DEATH OF MR RICKY BAIS (ON 22 AUGUST 2007) Background Mr Ricky James Bais, aged 38 years, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, which had been complicated by his ingestion of illicit substances, including cannabis.

In particular, the Board has noted a rapid increase in the prescription of medicinal cannabis and other drugs of addiction to offenders subject to Parole and Extended Supervision Orders and the Board is assessing how the prescription of these types of drugs may be restricted to offenders subject to supervision by the Board.

Ms ANTCLIFF: We haven't had any discussions on this particular case and we are, as we said at the beginning, working through what oversight measures are agreeable between the Tourism Commission and DTTI. 6831 The CHAIRPERSON: A different topic—and I think we will come back to that, but time is getting on: is the Office of Industrial Hemp and Medicinal Cannabis based in DTTI?