WA dopelaws

[F420]

West Australians, especially parents, are being urged to mount a campaign against the State Government's plans to soften cannabis laws.

 

Liberal leader Colin Barnett yesterday released a report by the party's drug strategy spokesman Simon O'Brien which showed similar policies in South Australia had led to growth in organised crime and drug-related home invasions.

 

Mr Barnett said the report, Decriminalisation Of Cannabis: The Wrong Approach, also showed greatly increased availability of cannabis to young people in SA following changes in its laws and minimal impact on freeing up the court system. Making cannabis a "little bit legal" was sending the wrong message to young people, he said, especially when medical evidence linked its use to mental illness.

 

"To ignore this evidence and push ahead with decriminalisation would be madness and I urge the community, particularly parents, to lobby the Government to abandon its policy," he said.

 

He said the Government's proposed laws - to decriminalise the possession of small amounts of cannabis and the cultivation of two plants - was inconsistent with its other recent legislation targeting organised crime.

 

In SA, decriminalisation had resulted in organised crime groups providing hydroponic equipment to individual growers who then got a cut from major deals, the involvement of bikie gangs in growing cannabis and armed home-invasions.

 

Fifty-five per cent of 14-19 year olds in SA had used cannabis compared with the national average of 45 per cent, Mr Barnett said. The Government appointed a drug law reform working group after the community drug summit last August to consider how to decriminalise the possession and cultivation of small amounts of cannabis. It is expected to report by March 31.

 

Mr O'Brien, who worked in the Australian Customs Service for 16 years before entering politics, said a single hydroponically grown plant could produce up to 1kg of cannabis and could be harvested four times a year.

 

But an average daily smoker consumed about 520g a year which meant that an individual could grow 23 times more cannabis in a year than a daily smoker would use.

 

Mr Barnett said the hydroponically-grown cannabis being sold today was much more potent than the cannabis smoked during the 1960s and 1970s.

 

Premier Geoff Gallop denied the Government was going soft on drugs and said it would continue to penalise dealers.

[risingsun]

Having lived in SA during the boom of the late 90'S in homegrown indoor hdyro I agree with the part about the increased involvment of dis-organised crime and violent home invasions.

two plants sounds about right in WA (1 mother 1 for growing) if you can grow indoors.

In SA and ACT all indoor grown plants even it is only a green house are a trip to court these days and you can only grow 1 plant outside. Lke the HEMP SA website says what if your 1 plant is male.

 

520 grams a year thats less than 2 grams a day or about 1 of my super joints that I used to have for breakfast, what about morning and afternoon tea, Desert

 

Now to grow a 1kg plant that would require at least 2 months to 10 weeks of veg and you would need a sativa indica hybrid with another two plus months of flower time so thats at least four months. So only three crops a year not four. And a 1kg plant would fill at least two square metres and require at least two 1000w lights. Its not as easy thing to do? Sometimes I dont know how people can make these kinds of statements. has that guy ever tried to grow a 1kg hydro plant. it would be a realy pain in the arse!!!!

[Infinitee]

"Now, having never used marijuana myself, i would obviously know that they do not produce any positive effects on the mind"

 

A quote from southpark, it just goes to show how stupid these people are that make these statements. Why the fuck are laws about our drugs being controlled by people who don't use them? it's fuckin stupid.

 

I think every minister who has anything to do with drugs should have to get stoned at least once a year!! They should also try growing a 1 kg hyge plant.

[WantDaChronic]

A quote from southpark, it just goes to show how stupid these people are that make these statements. Why the fuck are laws about our drugs being controlled by people who don't use them? it's fuckin stupid.

 

because if only the drug users made the laws regarding the legality of drugs, they would be all legal and the government would look like its siding with the drug users