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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.
Select Committees
54th Parliament
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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.
Select Committees
54th Parliament
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guidelines providing the
necessary guidance and direction for pharmacy services providers to
perform to professional and community expectations
carry out its regulatory requirements in an efficient and cost effective
manner
2016-17 ANNUAL REPORT for the Pharmacy Regulation Authority SA
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Key strategies and their relationship to SA Government objectives
Key strategy SA Government objective
Community engagement through the
provision of transparent evidence as to
how the community and consumers
benefit from the provision of high
quality pharmacy services from within
registered pharmacy premises
Improve Adelaide’s quality of life
ranking
Increase healthy life expectancy of
South Australians
To oversee the appropriate
introduction of new and emerging
pharmacy services delivered within
pharmacy premises such that all
appropriate professional standards are
achieved and where possible
exceeded (for example immunisation,
medicinal cannabis
Presented by
Hon Chris Picton
on
16/11/2017
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Annual Report
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Legal elements of offences
R v Abraham (rape) - whether the law of rape includes a requirement that the prohibited act must be the product
of a sexually gratifying purpose and the admissibility and significance of the prosecution submission that the
victim has no motive to lie
Question of Law Reserved (No 4 of 1997) (sale of cannabis) - whether the offence of taking part in the sale of
cannabis covers the situation where the anticipated sale is to occur outside the South Australian jurisdiction
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Apprehension about such misuse was highlighted in 2019 when a former public officer
centrally involved in the former Office of Industrial Hemp and Medicinal Cannabis was
appointed to a senior position at a medicinal cannabis company.
Presented by
Hon D R Cregan
on
28/11/2023
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Report
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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.
Select Committees
53rd Parliament
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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:
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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:
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for medical purposes to
include the trialing of cannabis to eligible patients:
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The package proposed to remove some of the more minor cannabis and other drug offences from the District Court into the Magistrates Court.