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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.
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The concept can be used broadly, for
example substance misuse and depression, or it can be restricted to specify
severe mental illness such as:
• psychosis,
• schizophrenia;
• a substance misuse issue such as cannabis or methamphetamine use;
• a person who has a milder mental illness such as panic disorder, anxiety
disorder; or
• intellectual disability such as ASD or FASD.
Presented by
Ms Dana Wortley
on
08/09/2015
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But I think what
shouldn't be missed here is the fact that, while we have a medicinal product that we are taking
through the medicinal route, as we have in the UK, the 500,000 people in Australia broadly using
electronic cigarettes today are using electronic cigarettes that are not those.
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Cannabis sativa
Alternanthera pungens
Prosopis juliflora
Xanthium pungens
Parthenum hysterophorus
Cirsium arvense
Senecio jacobaea
Salvinia spp.
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Department for Education
Early resolution - wrongful suspension of students from [redacted] High School
2018/12942
Complaint
The complainant’s child was suspended from high school when, on a school camp, another
student was caught with cannabis.
Presented by
Hon Vincent Tarzia
on
03/12/2019
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`Alternative' medicine continued to expand during 1980, particularly the sale of `natural' and
`herbal' medicinal preparations.
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(6) The applicant must provide the Board with the following information as to the state of the
applicant's health:
(a) information relating to medical advice, examination or treatment received by the
applicant;
(b) information as to any other treatment received by the applicant for any illness,
condition or disability suffered by the applicant;
(c) information as to any illness, condition or disability suffered by the applicant or any
symptoms suffered by the applicant that may indicate an illness, condition or
disability;
(d) information as to any drugs or other substances (whether legal or illegal and
whether medicinal or not) taken by the applicant or to which the applicant has been
exposed,
and the Board may require an applicant to provide satisfactory evidence of the state of the
applicant's health
Presented by
Hon Kevin Foley
on
08/09/2009
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Of
course if they are rescuing things like parts of the eye and parts of the heart that are useful for
medicinal things, there is another story too.
138 Mr KNOLL: They use the pig's eye to practise laser surgery.
139 The Hon.
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The decision-maker
need only state in their reasons for revocation or refusal that it was in the public
interest.18
The concept of criminal intelligence was introduced in the Hydroponics Industry
Control Act 2009 to regulate the sale of hydroponics equipment in order to curtail
the commercial cultivation and production of cannabis, and to reduce the impact of
drugs and drug related crime in the community.
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The decision-maker
need only state in their reasons for revocation or refusal that it was in the public
interest.18
The concept of criminal intelligence was introduced in the Hydroponics Industry
Control Act 2009 to regulate the sale of hydroponics equipment in order to curtail
the commercial cultivation and production of cannabis, and to reduce the impact of
drugs and drug related crime in the community.
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