Over two decades I’ve been a passionate advocate for community, the environment and common-sense laws that serve the needs of the people. As an experienced MP with a reputation for honesty, conviction and commitment, it’s an honour and a privilege to serve the people of NSW. In this term I am committed to bringing about progressive drug law reform, legalising cannabis, fixing the broken RDT system and growing the hemp industry. I am also focused on ensuring that we protect civil liberties, our environment and enact policies that look after the disadvantaged in our society."
The criminalisation of cannabis use disproportionately harms young people and indigenous people, leads to massive levels of violence and corruption, and fails to curb youth access.
Legalising and regulating cannabis will bring one of the nation’s largest cash crops under the rule of law. This will create jobs and economic opportunities in the formal economy instead of feeding the illicit market.
Scarce law enforcement resources will be better used to ensure public safety whilst reducing corrections and court costs. Governments would acquire significant new sources of revenue from regulating cannabis sales.
Cannabis product testing is becoming a standard requirement for legalised cannabis markets. This means consumers are better informed about the cannabis they use.
October 30, 2024
Australia’s medicinal cannabis guidelines, ostensibly developed to aid those suffering from chronic non-cancer pain, rest not on the bedrock of evidence but on the thin ice of prohibitionist rhetoric. The supposed “guidance” provided in these documents reveals an entrenched bias against cannabis, a bias...
Read MoreAugust 31, 2024
The sad fact is that most of us don’t know, and don’t care, that International Overdose Awareness Day is on Saturday. The shame around drug overdose deaths means that we choose not to count them in the same way that we count those who...
Read MoreAugust 29, 2024
After years of frustration, there is a ray of hope for the 300,000 medicinal cannabis patients in NSW who want to drive.
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