NAPNT Media Alerts: Drug prohibition: the real culprit in Corby case

NAPNT Media Alerts

Media Alerts published by the Northern Territory chapter of the Network Against Prohibition (NAP). The Network Against Prohibition (NAP) is a group dedicated to promoting and protecting the health and human rights of illicit drug users around the globe as well as the rights of those living in communities in developing countries who rely on opium, coca, cannabis etc for their survival! NAP originally formed in Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia, however, an expansion is underway.

Friday, May 27, 2005

Drug prohibition: the real culprit in Corby case

Supporters of Schapelle Corby should direct their anger at the Australian Government's continued support for US-led global drug prohibition.

That’s the message from the Network Against Prohibition, a Darwin-based drug law-reform group.

NAP spokesperson Stuart Highway said: “Drug prohibition is the real culprit in this case.”

“As long as there is support for drug prohibition in Australia, we do not have the right to condemn the Indonesian Government.”

“If she’d been convicted for the same thing in America, it would be even worse… she would have got an even heavier sentence. There are 1.2 million people in jail in the land of the free for cannabis offences.”

For more information, contact NAP on 0415162525 or see http://www.napnt.org

For resources on the Schapelle Corby case click here.