School-leavers will descend on the Gold Coast later this week. The lack of drug-checking services for them – and the state – has driven one bureaucrat to act.
The Mental Health Commission asked the question as part of its 2025 Drug Attitudes survey,but a WA MP said the response from residents was rarely acted on.
Edge of Life is a documentary probably best left to the true believers.
Decisions have been made about strip-searches and sniffer dogs at music festivals,and how to handle drivers with a medicinal cannabis prescription.
Advocates say the government is rushing through “irreversible legislative changes that could put Queensland lives at risk”.
Overdoses among young people are falling but fatalities are soaring among the over-40s.
The Crisafulli government has vowed to shut down a free pill testing service,which had been funded by the previous Labor administration,after it secured private funding to continue its services.
A low-level drug user’s postcode or drug of choice plays a massive factor in whether they’re issued a $400 fine or sent to court,Greens MP Cate Faehrmann has found.
Never Get Busted is a riveting documentary about a drug cop who breaks bad (or good). But it is also the subject of a fierce legal battle – about who even made it.
The pill testing initiative was launched with a promise there would be an independent evaluation after 12 months,but the government is rejecting calls to share those findings.