{"id":3745,"date":"2023-09-27T18:33:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T08:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/australian-border-force-continue-their-opposition-to-act-drug-decriminalisation-as-portugal-experiment-fails-and-warns-others-not-to-follow\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T18:33:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T08:33:24","slug":"australian-border-force-continue-their-opposition-to-act-drug-decriminalisation-as-portugal-experiment-fails-and-warns-others-not-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/australian-border-force-continue-their-opposition-to-act-drug-decriminalisation-as-portugal-experiment-fails-and-warns-others-not-to-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Border Force Continue Their Opposition to ACT Drug Decriminalisation \u2013 As Portugal experiment fails and warns others not to follow."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-3744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Australian_Border_Force_Continue_Their_Opposition_to_ACT_Drug_Decriminalisation__As_Portugal_experiment_fails_and_warns_others_not_to_followjpg.jpg\" alt=\"Australian Border Force Continue Their Opposition to ACT Drug Decriminalisation As Portugal experiment fails and warns others not to followjpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" style=\"margin-bottom: 40px; margin-left: 40px; float: right;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Australian_Border_Force_Continue_Their_Opposition_to_ACT_Drug_Decriminalisation__As_Portugal_experiment_fails_and_warns_others_not_to_followjpg.jpg 1219w, https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Australian_Border_Force_Continue_Their_Opposition_to_ACT_Drug_Decriminalisation__As_Portugal_experiment_fails_and_warns_others_not_to_followjpg-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Australian_Border_Force_Continue_Their_Opposition_to_ACT_Drug_Decriminalisation__As_Portugal_experiment_fails_and_warns_others_not_to_followjpg-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Australian_Border_Force_Continue_Their_Opposition_to_ACT_Drug_Decriminalisation__As_Portugal_experiment_fails_and_warns_others_not_to_followjpg-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\u201cDecriminalisation creates too many practical difficulties for police officers to implement policy, and there are inadequately designed and resourced diversionary programs. At this stage, we do not believe a threshold has been met whereby community members can be kept safe through a process of decriminalising or legalising illicit \u2018hard\u2019 drugs including amphetamines, heroin, cocaine and MDMA. Hard drugs cause enormous amounts of harm to society, and the PANSW believes any more to make them easier to use will create further problems.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp; Police Association of NSW&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Source:&nbsp;<em>\u2018Portuguese warning on legalising drugs\u2019 \u2013&nbsp;<\/em>The Australian&nbsp;<\/strong>September 27<sup>th<\/sup>, 2023<strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also see&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/index.php\/advocacy\/dalgarno-aod-policy\/2110-failing-portugal-drug-policy-was-never-a-good-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Failing Portugal Drug Policy was Never a \u2018Good Plan\u2019!<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/index.php\/advocacy\/dalgarno-aod-policy\/2121-the-drugs-lobby-have-finally-been-proved-wrong-and-the-world-is-waking-up-the-portugal-model-continuing-to-fail-and-fail-disturbingly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The drugs lobby have finally been proved wrong and the world is waking up. The Portugal Model continuing to fail and fail disturbingly!<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/index.php\/advocacy\/dalgarno-aod-policy\/2063-false-claims-for-portugal-and-decriminalisation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Challenging the Faux Claims for Portugal and Decriminalisation<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/index.php\/advocacy\/dalgarno-aod-policy\/2042-how-the-former-heroin-capital-of-europe-decriminalised-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the former &#8216;heroin capital of Europe&#8217; decriminalised drugs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/images\/resources\/pdf\/researchreports\/2018\/Portugal_Policy_DRR_08-09-20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portugal Drug Policy \u2013 A Review Of The Evidence: Highlights Many Problems that Make it Unsuitable for Australia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/images\/resources\/pdf\/aod\/Portuguese_20_years_of_drug_policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>20 years of Portuguese Drug Policy \u2013 Development &amp; Challenges<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDecriminalisation creates too many practical difficulties for police officers to implement policy, and there are inadequately designed and resourced diversionary programs. At this stage, we do not believe a threshold has been met whereby community members can be kept safe through a process of decriminalising or legalising illicit \u2018hard\u2019 drugs including amphetamines, heroin, cocaine and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dalgarno-institute-aod-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}