PDC: DPWG 1 February

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PDC Drug Policy Working Group: Meeting held 9:00PM, 1 February 2013.

Agenda

Finalise policy text

Attendance

  • Mark Gibbons
  • Andrew Downing
  • Simon Frew


Minutes

Agreement formed that decriminalized drugs should be subject to differing penalties - minimal civil penalties to apply. More serious penalties to apply to commercial sale, or to users in professions with a safety component (pilots, doctors).
Agreement that tax revenue should fund harm minimisation.
Discussion of policy lead-in text. Andrew proposition is that it should be dot points. Mark wants paragraph text. Compromise position is for smaller topical paragraphs.
Meeting closed 10:30PM.