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Associate Professor Kate Seear explores the ethics of law around drug use in her new book, “Law, Drugs and the making of addiction. Just Habits.”
At the book’s launch, Seear talked about her research for the book, and her surprise at a common theme.
Reproduced with permission – Andrew McLellan CBAA.org When it comes to drugs, we are often handed the line that it’s best to be ‘tough’. But there’s at least one community taking another approach. Aoife Cooke takes us to what’s formally known as a “medically supervised injecting centre”, but is known to some as The Shooting Gallery. Produced […]
June 26th is Support Don’t Punish The harms being caused by the war on drugs can no longer be ignored. It is time to leave behind harmful politics, ideology and prejudice. It is time to prioritise the health and welfare of the affected populations, their families and communities. Support. Don’t Punish is a global advocacy campaign […]
June 26th is Support Don’t Punish The harms being caused by the war on drugs can no longer be ignored. It is time to leave behind harmful politics, ideology and prejudice. It is time to prioritise the health and welfare of the affected populations, their families and communities. Support. Don’t Punish is a global advocacy campaign […]
Prohibition doesn’t work. Instead, the prohibition on illicit drugs is killing and criminalising our children. The counter-productive nature of our current drugs policy is illustrated by the current methamphetamine flood. While the number of methamphetamine offences prosecuted in Australia tripled between 2009/10 and 2014/15, ice usage has doubled. Massive seizures after massive seizure has had […]
The first lot (117 so far) of public submissions to the Inquiry into Drug Law Reform have been made available on the Victorian Government website. After a very quick skim through, the vast majority of the public submissions are calling for a reform of our current drug laws and policies. Submissions range from simple, short […]
This year, Rainbow Serpent Festival celebrates its 20th birthday! Over its life time, RSF has grown from a festival celebrating psychedelic music into a small town, attended by people from Australia and across the world, almost as a pilgrimage to a sub-culture that exists beneath the main-stream. Last year, we helped facilitate and record a […]
“This is a safe space….” Honoured as I am, at being asked to write an article for this, the inaugural newsletter of the Australian Psychedelic Society, I had to remind myself of this fact : This is a safe space. This may, on initial reading, sound dramatic; particularly to anyone uninitiated to the history of […]
On Tuesday the 20th of September, over 150 people from around Melbourne gathered in Brunswick for the global 920 Coalition celebrations. A number of Melbourne artists showcased their work, with thanks to curator Hamish Waters, Little Tengu art gallery and all the artists whose work was displayed on the evening. DJs Eleven and Poncho Poncho […]
Last year as part of the global 920 Coalition events, Melbourne came together to celebrate and discuss psilocybin mushrooms at the Fitzroy Beer Garden. This year we’re asking you to find the others. Come out and support your psychedelic community and the important work being done around psilocybin mushrooms. This year’s event will also be […]
Together with The Psychedelic Inquirer, Students for Sensible Drug Policy Australia and PRISM (Psychedelic Research In Science Medicine) we are helping to raise awareness and funds to make psychedelic therapy a legal treatment within Australia and worldwide. [soundcloud]https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/257763505[/soundcloud] The Melbourne scientific and psychedelic communities will be brought together to help the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic […]
The War On Drugs has failed to deliver positive outcomes for people who use drugs and for the rest of society. For all the billions of dollars spent trying to prevent drugs from moving around the world, drug use remains common and drugs are widely available. But more than just wasted money, the price of […]
Rainbow Serpent Festival is Australia’s premier electronic music and alternative lifestyle festival. It’s where around 20,000 Australian and global psychedelic citizens come together to share, laugh, dance and be very, very merry indeed. The following is our totally biased suggestions of two events you should etch into your memory to attend, once the beautiful chaos […]
Enpsychedelia joined 3CR Community Radio on the 5th of July in 2015. Since then, we’ve interviewed dozens of people from Australia and around the world on a wide range of topics, from harm reduction to psychedelic science. We started meeting up after the show most weeks with listeners to discuss the issues and are on […]
Saturday 5th of December from 2pm at the State Library of Victoria [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Dtr08WCFU[/youtube] DrugLawed details how New Zealand got rolled up in the US-led Drug War along with 183 other countries. Over the past 100 years the US has forced its fatally flawed model of drug prohibition on almost every country on earth. Four decades […]
