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Quality standards to be introduced to tackle youth vaping, including restricting flavours, colours and other ingredients

The Australian government will ban the importation of nonprescription vaping products – including those that do not contain nicotine – in the most significant tobacco and vaping control measures in the country in a decade.
To tackle youth vaping, minimum quality standards for vapes will be introduced including restricting flavours, colours and other ingredients. Vape products will require pharmaceutical-like packaging, and the allowed nicotine concentrations and volumes will be reduced. All single-use, disposable vapes will be banned.

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How the former 'heroin capital of Europe' decriminalised drugs (Winning the War on Drugs?)| SBS Dateline
The How is not the issue – that’s easy. What has it achieved and why are key public figures wanting things to change? Portugal Mayor Supports Recriminalizing Public Drug Use
Some points one may miss in the ‘showcase of progress’ that isn’t?

1. Treatment and recovery but you must have the desire to stop.
   
2. Underground drug trade is thriving. 24:00 Minutes
   
3. All drugs in Portugal are no longer treated as a criminal offense but are still illegal.
   
4. Person can have up to 10 days’ supply e.g. 25 grams marijuana
   
5. Selling is a felony.
   
6. Drug use is widespread with decriminalisation.
   

(For complete episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0BwrwB0wno )
See also

• The Truth on Portugal – Countering False Claims by Pro-Drug Activists
  
• Portugal Drug Policy – A Review Of The Evidence! Portugal Drug Policy Highlights Many Problems that Make it Unsuitable for Australia
  

Better Options:

• Prison scheme sees seven-fold increase in people accessing drug rehabilitation
  
• Re-tasking the Judicial Educator to Rehabilitate Not Incarcerate
  
• Drug Use, Stigma and Proactive Contagions to Reduce Both
  
• CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT FOR ABSTINENCE AS A RECOVERY TOOL?

“If we are going to say ‘NO’ to violence against women – and we must – then we cannot say ‘Yes’ to drug use!” Dalgarno Institute

“Continuing acceptance and normalisation of drug using behaviours by the culture, whether overt promotion of products or the libertarian pursuit of individual ‘rights’, the acceptance of psychotropic toxins in social and familial settings only grows and will act counter to the need to shift cultural attitudes underpinning ‘acceptable’ violence toward women and children.”

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Excerpt: It is also imperative that the responsibility and capacity of all human beings is fortified in developing and protecting the right to best-practice health care and is not enabled, equipped, or empowered to undermine good, physical, and psycho-social health. Thus, it is important to note that the human right to freedom is strengthened by focusing on strengthening prevention, ensuring access to treatment, and promote recovery. Hence, we call upon the Member States to uphold and promoting prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery services with a comprehensive, integrated, inclusive, evidence-based, and balanced approach.

Following the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the widely adopted Sustainable Development Goals and the Convention on the Rights of the Child acknowledge and further emphasise that “all human beings [should be able to] fulfil their potential in dignity and equality in a healthy environment”, with a particular focus on allowing children and youth to flourish into healthy adulthood. With the increase in drug use, especially among the younger generation, it is significantly important to adhere to the Human Rights of the young person. Especially children should be offered the necessary protection to live a healthy and substance-free life. The need for prevention, protection, and provision of health care is reiterated in the two-above mentioned conventions. The ratification of Article 33 in the Convention on the Rights of the Child highlights the need to protect children from the illicit use of narcotic drugs and prevent children from being used for the illicit production or trafficking of illicit substances. Besides this, Article 3.5 in the Sustainable Development Goals promotes the need to strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance use. Therefore, we urge the UNODC to continue to promote evidence-based prevention, access to treatment, and recovery, while encouraging monitoring and evaluation with disaggregated data by gender.

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