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MardiGrass 2016 Hemposium
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12.30pm Friday 29 April, Nimbin Town Hall

Topic: Challenging the Assumptions of Cannabis Prohibition

About: Drugs use is as old as civilisation itself, but the worldwide prohibition on drugs is a new phenomenon. What are the assumptions of the prohibition and how can we challenge them to effect reform of the cannabis and other unhealthy drug laws?

Bio: Greg Chipp is the CEO of Drug Policy Australia, a newly-established public health NGO primarily concerned with drug policy advocacy and with promoting new legislative approaches to minimize the harms associated with the use of psychoactive substances. Greg has been actively involved in politics and public policy development for many decades, since assisting his father Don Chipp establish the Australian Democrats political party in the 1970’s. More recently he stood as candidate in the 2013 Federal election campaigning on a platform of drug law reform and calling for a Royal Commission into the health and economic costs associated with the criminalisation of recreational drug use. Greg believes that the current prohibitionist approach of criminalising drug use does more harm than good, and that a new regulatory system for Australia based on the ‘Portugal Model’ is both realistic and achievable.

http://www.drugpolicy.org.au/
http://www.druglawreform.com.au/

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