The Greens used to be about the environment. But not anymore.
These days they are obsessed with legalising hard drugs.
They have a particular obsession with cocaine in particular.
According to the Australian Government’s Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), 13.5 percent of the Australian population (2.9 million people) aged 14 and over in the period 2022-2023 have used cocaine at least once in their lifetime.
There is no question that cocaine use is a major challenge for this country. How to solve this problem is a dilemma which successive Australian governments have grappled with. It’s a complex issue. There is no easy fix.
Not according to NSW Greens MP Cate Faehrmann, who is her party’s “drug law reform” spokeswoman.
Faehrmann and the Greens have concocted their ultimate panacea for cocaine users across Australia.
Legalise it and ensure wide availability going forward. In fact, why not just sell it on a government regulated market?
In an opinion piece for the Sydney Morning Herald, Faehrmann poses the question: “Isn’t it time to ask ourselves what harm it would do if we created a strictly regulated cocaine market?”
According to the Daily Telegraph, the Greens want to regulate cocaine “in a similar way to how we regulate alcohol”.
Yes, you heard that correctly.
If it was up to the Greens, purchasing a bag of cocaine would be as simple as picking up a six-pack of beer, or a bottle of wine, at your local bottle shop.
The Greens are on record saying there is “absolutely no chance of stopping people using the drug (cocaine)”, therefore a controlled market would help people “reduce harm”.
If you are to believe what the Greens are telling us, it’s all too difficult so let’s legalise cocaine and give users even more freedom, availability and flexibility to purchase this illicit drug going forward.
This radical appeasement approach by the Greens is waving the white flag, normalising cocaine use in the Australian psyche and culture.
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government has stumbled down this path to drug legalisation. According to their website: “From 28 October (last year), the personal possession of small amounts of the most commonly used illicit drugs will be decriminalised in the ACT.”
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission has warned that “the ACT’s new laws decriminalising drugs will increase illicit drug use and mirror the uptick in consumption experienced in overseas jurisdictions that have taken the same approach”.
Vancouver provides a relevant current overseas example of how this extreme approach is fraught with risk and danger.
In 2022, Canada’s Federal Government announced it would allow Vancouver to trial an exemption to the prohibition on possession of small amounts of hard drugs (up to 2.5 grams) for a three year trial period.
The exemption applied to a wide range of drugs including opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA (or ecstasy).
This was introduced in response to increased public use of drugs, overdose deaths and public disorder in Vancouver.
Sadly, it has since been reported “that the first six months of statistics on this trial period in Vancouver showed overdose deaths at record highs. The results aren’t just less than encouraging, they should be sending people screaming in the opposite direction.”
If the Vancouver experience is anything to go by, the Greens are sending us down an insane path of drug-induced oblivion across Australia.
ADVANCE’s Greens Truth Campaign highlights how this party is a political machine with a plan for taking power in this country. And if they do, they plan to undermine our nation’s freedom, prosperity, and security.
Their obsession to legalise all drugs in Australia, not just cocaine, is yet another example of how the Greens want to erode the fabric of Australian society permanently.