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<b>LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY</b> - Signing ePetition

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY - Signing ePetition - It is time to start treating adults like adults and decriminalise cannabis.

To sign the ePetition, confirm you are a resident of New South Wales and enter your title, first name and last name. Once you click ‘submit’ you will have signed the ePetition and will be re-directed to the Legislative Assembly’s ‘ePetitions open for signature’ page

It is time to start treating adults like adults and decriminalise cannabis.

To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly, It is time to start treating adults like adults and decriminalise cannabis. Despite over 50 years of active prohibition against cannabis, it has been used by over 40% of the population at some point in their lives, and by over 10% recently, according to the National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2022-2023. Its use is accepted and ubiquitous across all social strata. The National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2022-2023 also reveals that the proportion of people who believe that possession of cannabis should not be a criminal offence, i.e. decriminalised, has reached an all-time high of 80%. This overwhelming community support clearly mandates reform of cannabis laws. It is intolerable that multiple official recommendations for decriminalisation of cannabis have been rejected by multiple NSW Governments over multiple decades against community wishes. We, the ordinary and otherwise law-abiding citizens, do not accept the continued prohibition and criminalisation of the personal cultivation, possession, and use of cannabis by adults. It is time to start treating adults like adults regarding their personal choice to consume cannabis. We, the undersigned petitioners, therefore, humbly ask the Legislative Assembly to call on the Government to put aside party politics in the interests of justice and human rights and, as a matter of conscience, pass a bill to decriminalise the personal cultivation, possession, and use of cannabis by adults.

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