Radio: Celebrating Drug Use

The truth is illicit drugs are available in Australia to those who want them. Next week the Third Darwin International Syringe Festival kicks off. The Network Against Prohibtion (NAP), who are organising SyringeFest 2004, say it is to celebrate 100 years of illicit drug use in the Northern Territory and highlight the human rights abuses suffered by drug users.

Gary Meyerhoff from NAP explained to Jonathan Lucraft why that he thinks drug prohibition does not work. Its no surprise that many disagree with Gary Meyerhoff's attitude towards drugs. Major Brian Watters is the Chairman of the Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD), which advises the Federal Government on drugs' policy. He told Jay Lamey he has seen too many lives destroyed by drugs to ever believe drug use can be 'celebrated'.

Newshawk: http://www.napnt.org
Pubdate: 26th August 2004
Source: The Wire - National Community Radio Program
Producer: Jay Lamey