On February 24, 2016 the Australian parliament passed an amendment to the Narcotic Drugs Act which legalised medical marijuana. The amendment permits patients with a prescription from a doctor to posses and use medical cannabis. The cannabis must be grown in Australia under the supervision of the local government. Analysts predict that marijuana will be available to patients beginning in 2017.
77% Yes |
23% No |
59% Yes |
23% No |
12% Yes, but only for medical use |
0% No, and increase penalties for non-violent drug offenders |
5% Yes, and legalise, tax, and regulate marijuana instead of criminalizing it |
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1% Yes, and immediately release anyone serving time solely for drug offenses |
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@528PP8H3yrs3Y
everyone is going to get high and die
@8JLLT5N3yrs3Y
yes but they must be over 18
@8C8TNR64yrs4Y
Yes, as long as there are no crimes related to the use of Marijuana
@8HG3RKF4yrs4Y
Only if they need it and they need to take regular checks with a doctor, so yes.
@8RGGV6R3yrs3Y
Yes but with the same level of science based critique of negative effects as smoking and alcohol receives so that individuals can make informed choices
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From a thriving fentanyl business with Mexican cartels, to connections in illegal marijuana busts across the nation, alarms are being raised about Beijing's fingerprints being found on the US drug addiction crisis.The Drug Enforcement Administration has substantial evidence dating back a decade of Beijing’s role in flooding U.S. citieswith a wide range of addictive and harmful drugs.“I'm just saying that from a strategic plan of the CCP, it's a brilliant concept that if we can get into America and sell this very pure marijuana and destroy Americans' brains, so then they go to pills and other drugs, that's a brilliant, unrestricted warfare,” former DEA Chief of Special Operations Derek Maltz Sr. told Just the News on Wednesday.“When you look at the Chinese Communist Party. And you look at the role of China and their criminal networks in the overall drug crisis in America – because people are not connecting the dots – this is way bigger than just a bunch of, you know, illegally selling marijuana up in Maine. First of all, it's all over the country. It's not just Maine, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington State, California. And, you know, all different states,” Maltz said during a wide-ranging interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast.
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