Queensland health minister says progressive changes will open up pathways for people to receive treatment for drug use
New South Wales will become the only state that doesn’t allow cautions for people possessing drugs after Queensland moved to mandate a three-strike system.
“Without these reforms, many people who come into contact with the criminal justice system for low-level drug offences may not receive the timely support they need,” D’Ath said. All other states except NSW offer police the discretion to send a person to a diversion program rather than court for at least their first strike of minor possession of such drugs, but Queensland would become the first to make a three strikes approach mandatory.
“It’s very pleasing to say that Queensland has finally started to improve their responses to personal use of drugs,” Ritter said.Ritter said NSW now had the least progressive drug policy in the country, demonstrating a failure to adopt evidence-based reforms.
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