{"id":605,"date":"2008-10-16T17:19:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T16:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=605"},"modified":"2017-09-28T10:29:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T10:29:50","slug":"australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2008\/10\/australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-admin\/auscan.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"288\" align=\"absBottom\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Australian Data from the Queensland Criminal Justice Dept in 1993 shows that, in only 3 years after decriminalisation of cannabis in 1987 there was a 21 to 3-fold increase in its use in South Australia compared to other states.\u00a0 Adelaide is reckoned the drug capital of Australia with use of LSD, amphetamines and ecstasy up to 3 times greater than Sydney.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Comparing the use of cannabis in the Australian Capital Territory\u00a0 (ACT) with New South Wales after the ACT trivialised penalties for use to a $100 fine, as against $2000 in NSW. Adolescent male use was found to be 55% higher and female adolescent use 83% higher than in NSW.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>References<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"> <em>1. Cannabis and the Law in Queensland Advisory Committee on Illicit Drugs. July 1993<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"> <em>2. Attitude, ABC TV May 1993<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"> <em>3. A.C.T. Board of Health Schools Student Survey. 1991: Years 7-11.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Data from the Queensland Criminal Justice Dept in 1993 shows that, in only 3 years after decriminalisation of cannabis in 1987 there was a 21 to 3-fold increase in its use in South Australia compared to other states.\u00a0 Adelaide is reckoned the drug capital of Australia with use of LSD, amphetamines and ecstasy up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}