https://apple.news/AudI4U2O1SaW7fSR31oe_zQ [quote]A new report into drug-related deaths has proposed the decriminalisation of drug use in Australia. The Australia21 report has the backing of former police commissioners and assistant commissioners, two former heads of Corrective Services, a former Supreme Court Judge and a former Director of Public Prosecutions. It is the group's third report in five years on the issue. The report says despite more than 80,000 arrests in Australia each year, there has been a continued rise in diseases, injuries, crimes and social costs[/quote] [quote]The report's recommendations include: Decriminalising drug use and consideration of eliminating all penalties More "Drug consumptions rooms" — Australia has only one medically supervised centre in Kings Cross Consideration of a regulated "white market" for drugs in a bid to counter "the black market" Improving health and social services to drug users, particularly in rural areas More funding for harm minimisation strategies Former federal police commissioner Mick Palmer told ABC News Breakfast his attitude had changed a lot since he was a young policeman in the 1960s. "I didn't have time for people who used drugs. I realised the futility of the practice," he said. "Since I retired, I have devoted a fair bit of time to work more closely with the drug user coalface and it has become obvious we can't arrest our way out of it. "Law enforcement can't solve what is a serious issue and we need a more multi-faceted approach to deal with the problem.[/quote] Sounds pretty promising and awesome. For those who don't know, a drug consumption room is like a toilet cubical but for heroine and other drugs. While the federal government will probably block anything to do with this I can see council and state governments going along with this.