Before we let you know what he’s recently said. This isn’t a recent conversation on the road to Damascus and he has been saying the same things for years now.
Channel Nine News Australia
One of Australia’s most experienced and respected senior police officers has stepped up his campaign to regulate cannabis and believes the drug will be freely and legally available within five years.
Mick Palmer, former head of both the Australian Federal Police and the Northern Territory Police, has joined the board of the Pennington Institute, one of Australia’s leading supporters of legalisation.
And it now seems possible that Victoria will be the “beachhead” in a campaign to test a model for making cannabis a regulated, controlled but legal drug.
As part of that campaign, the Institute has released research which shows 54 per cent of Victorians want more relaxed drug laws, and only 21 per cent believe they are working at the moment.
In a detailed discussion on the podcast Neil Mitchell Asks Why?, Palmer said he thought legalisation was inevitable.
“I do think we will see within five years, certainly regulation of cannabis more broadly, and in some states of Australia, I suspect, we would see in that time-frame legalisation,” he said.
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