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On 23 October 2024 Dr Brian Walker announced via FB
Today, I’m proud to announce Jason Meotti – Legalise Cannabis Party as our Western Australian Senate candidate.
Jason has spent over two decades fighting for cannabis law reform, and now he’s ready to take that fight to Canberra.
Karma Koala connected with Jason to find out what he’s standing on and what he hopes to achieve if he makes it to Canberra
We discuss amongst other things
His personal views on how to regulate cannabis and hemp
What the national Legalize Cannabis party stands for
Would be block supply to get major party concessions on cannabis
Where Legalize Cannabis Cannabis & The Greens agree & differ on progressing cannabis policy
A state based approach vs federal
Thankyou to Jason for taking time to talk to Karma Koala.
Jason Meotti has spent two decades campaigning for cannabis law reform and knows the subject well. He was instrumental in setting up the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation WA in 1998, and served as the foundation president until 2005.
“We led calls for the 2001 WA Drug Summit, and I chaired the committee that developed the cannabis decriminalisation proposal, a forerunner of the WA Cannabis Control Bill 2003 which decriminalised possession and cultivation of small quantities of cannabis in Western Australia – the second state after South Australia to do so.”
“I have already helped usher in cannabis law reform in WA and I wasn’t even elected to Parliament – just imagine what I could achieve towards legalising if I was elected as a WA Senator.” – Jason Meotti
More & donate at
https://www.legalisecannabis.org.au/jason_meotti_donate_page
PARTY POLICY
Party Values
We advocate to protect and uphold
- Civil Liberties
- Privacy
- Human Rights
- Personal Freedoms
- Anti-Discrimination / Tolerance
- Compassion
Legalisation and Regulation of Cannabis.
Cannabis should be treated in a similar way to alcohol and tobacco, re labelling and advertising, but not subject to the ever-increasing levels of tax paid by consumers on these products. Street cannabis has maintained its current price levels for decades seeing only slight variations or increases depending on availability and quality. Higher prices on legal products would see consumers return to the illicit market.
- An immediate moratorium on all arrests of cannabis consumers.
- Reforms allowing consumers and/or carers to grow cannabis in their gardens or indoors.
- All historical personal-use cannabis criminal records to be expunged.
- Reform of drug driving laws where impairment, not presence, is tested.
- Road safety laws to be amended to allow for a defence for medicinal users.
- A state-based licensing system covering all commercial operations including production, manufacturing, and retail / dispensing.
- An amnesty period for current grey-market growers to transition to become licensed producers with ongoing support provided to boutique growers, small producers, and compassion clubs. Subsidies to incentivise start-ups and not-for-profits.
- State-regulated affordable testing facilities available for producers, growers, and consumers. Such services to be reasonably priced, easy to access with all restrictions currently hampering testing to be lifted.
- A unified independent cannabis authority overseeing personal-use cannabis and hemp production to include end-users and those experienced in cultivation and production in decision-making processes.
