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NEWS:Abc.net.au - 15/2/08 'Qld Parliament passes tougher penalties for drugs offences

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Qld Parliament passes tougher penalties for drugs offences

The Queensland Parliament has passed laws to increase the penalties for certain drug offences.

Both sides of the House supported the changes to re-classify the drugs MDMA or 'ecstasy' and PMA or 'death' as "schedule one" drugs.

The maximum penalties for possessing, supplying or trafficking those drugs will increase from 20 to 25 years.

Queensland Attorney-General Kerry Shine told Parliament the laws also ban substances similar to those named in the banned drug schedules.

"These substances are designed to get around drug laws by slightly shifting the molecular structure of a banned drug," he said.

"Designer drugs continue to be readily available, because they are so easy and cheap to produce and the production labs can be quickly established or moved.

"[The new laws will] strengthen the response to the changing face of illicit drug culture."

Opposition spokesman Mark McArdle says the tougher penalties need to be enforced.

"It does not go anywhere near getting the message out there that a maximum penalty is indeed going to be awarded," he said.

Amendments were also passed to bring Queensland into line with new Commonwealth laws regulating the use of genetic modification.

Both sides of the House supported the Bill, but independent MP Dorothy Pratt had concerns.

"We don't know the unknowns, and we are gambling on the future," she said.

She voted in favour of the laws, but One Nation MP Rosa Lee Long did not.


abc.net.au
 
Qld Parliament passes tougher penalties for drugs offences'
February 14, 2008 - 9:23PM


Tough new drug laws passed by state parliament will act as a "serious deterrent", says Queensland Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Kerry Shine.

Mr Shine said maximum penalties for the unlawful possession, supply and trafficking of drugs ecstasy or MDMA and PMA or death would increase from 20 to 25 years under the Drugs Misuse Amendment Bill 2007.

"We are determined to fight the increase in drug use in our society and these laws provide a serious deterrent to anyone thinking of becoming involved in the illegal drug trade," he said.

Mr Shine said the Bill also introduced new offences to assist in the prosecution of people illegally manufacturing drugs such as ice.

"New offences have been created for the supply and production of substances such as pseudo ephedrine and for the possession of equipment used in the production of dangerous drugs such as pill presses," he said.

"We have also introduced a new concept called `analogue' which means that drugs not named in the Drugs Misuse Act, but which have a similar structure pharmacological effect, will attract the same penalties as drugs that are in it."

Mr Shine said the tough new laws had also increased the maximum penalty for the unlawful possession, supply or trafficking of Valium, Sarapax, steroids, Rohypnol or Flunitrazepam and ephedrine to 20 years imprisonment.

Previously, the maximum penalty for their supply or trafficking was five years jail while possession carried a maximum of two years imprisonment.

news.smh.com.au
 
What a difference this will make! I'm sure there's just soooo many people willing to go to jail for 20 years, but not 25 8)

The new penalties for benzos seem really unfair. I thought QLD already had some of the toughest drug laws in Australia, which seemed to have failed as a deterrent.
 
it will make a difference actually iun court. s2 drugs were previously looked at a lot lighter, in the conviction being recorded, fines (if any), and normally just community service after a few offences.

They should of made PMA s1.
 
^ Thats a really good point Splatt. What this will change is court punishments. If you get caught with any pills your chance of a conviction and a criminal record compared to drug diversion has increased significantly.

READ: if you happened to get randomly searched in the valley and they find some pills, you wont be allowed to travel to America for the rest of your life.

Dont thank me, thank your parents for letting Neocons rule the world.
 
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Cant see it really doing alot, apart from pushing the consumption of drugs away from public places like night clubs and more towards home based parties, hopefully right next door to some of the people that have been advocating this type of law reform :D
 
"We don't know the unknowns, and we are gambling on the future,"



WTF is that supposed to mean?
 
Gay that valium is now illegal to poissess since a doctor can just give you it without a label
 
"We have also introduced a new concept called `analogue' which means that drugs not named in the Drugs Misuse Act, but which have a similar structure pharmacological effect, will attract the same penalties as drugs that are in it."

Uuhhhhh, doesn't Australia have some of the most comprehensive analogue laws already?
 
WTF is that supposed to mean?

I think she was talking about the genetic modification laws they passed as well, which was mentioned in the article.
 
This is fucking ridiculous what the fuck is wrong with these people!!

The world is going to be one fucked up place in the future. We need to start killing these people off now, before they ban everything!!


Something must be done. It would require a large underground movement which would attack at the same time and take over the country.

We would then make a smooth transition using co-operating current MPs are figureheads of our new government.

We will have control of Australian Army forces and all police and army personal and all government workers and all familys will be deported immediately.

To stay you must fail a drug test.
 
What doesn't seem to be around today that was in the sixties and seventies is a protest / reform movement. How many rallies do you see for the legalisation of MDMA? So, when these laws are first proposed, there's hardly a voice of objection. From the politicians POV, there's really no alternative but to to go with the status quo. Drugs are bad, full stop, and few with any credibility are saying otherwise.
 
phase_dancer said:
What doesn't seem to be around today that was in the sixties and seventies is a protest / reform movement.

^Really good point.

Look at some of the political momentum through rallies and protests our parents managed to achieve. They organised all of that without cell phones.

Being the most technologically advanced, super connected generation ever, it is really a sad inditement of the times that we seem to be doing fuck all about current state of Neocon Draconianism.

*goes off and spins some public enemy*
 
phase and other interested parties
perhaps its time to lay the foundations for this protest/antiprohibition movement?
btw if u read the actual 1line really broad analouge clause , does it sound unconsitutional or illegal under the federal criminal code to you?
it certainly does to me, and i am intersted in challenging this in the high court.
can you pass this thread to that tabugala guy as he seemed onto it but he never seems to post here much.
rock on a
 
^ i was thinking that some form of public awareness/protest campaign might be a good idea, time feels about right for it, although it needs to be targetted and started by those who know the most in order to create an air of professionalism about it. Anyway, sign me up!
 
NickyJ said:
"We don't know the unknowns, and we are gambling on the future,"



WTF is that supposed to mean?



There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.


-Donald Rumsfeld​
 
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