DRUG EQUIPMENT BANNED
Legislation to ban the sale of drug using equipment in South Australia has been agreed to on a bipartisan basis.
The drug using equipment being banned from sale includes bongs, hookahs, water pipes, hashish pipes, ICE pipes and cocaine kits.
In the past it was illegal to possess drug using equipment and now the sale of this equipment is banned as well.
Shop owners who sell the drug equipment could face fines of up to $50,000.
It will not now be a requirement for police to prove that equipment is being used for the consumption of illicit drugs.
(Source: Adelaide Advertiser Newspaper, 14 February 2008)
The Drug Advisory Council of Australia Comments
It is time that all states and territories had uniform laws to ban the sale and possession of this equipment so that equipment simply does not move between different states and territories.
The removal of drug using equipment send a strong message that illicit drug use is not supported.
Our Council is pleased that the anti drug initiative received wide political support across the spectrum of political parties.
Anti drug policies in Sweden are supported across political parties so Australia should copy the highly successful Swedish drug policies so that the number of illicit drug users reduces to the low levels in Sweden.
Lets ditch harm minimization for what works.
More detoxification & rehabilitation that gets illicit drug users drug free.
Court ordered and supervised detoxification & rehabilitation.
Less illicit drug users, drug pushers and drug related crimes.
5/2008