Stoned wallabies, not aliens, damaging poppy cropsThe mystery of crop circles in and around Tasmania’s legal opium poppy fields may have been solved. It’s not aliens, but junkie wallabies hopping around in dazed circles.
Drugs
Nice people take drugs. No really. I saw it on a bus
If you are travelling around central London this month, don’t be surprised to see a double-decker bus carrying the campaign slogan “Nice People Take Drugs”, writes President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation Dr Alex Wodak.
America’s favourite drugs
How popular are various drugs by area? GOOD do what they do best, and show us — in graph form. Pretty, pretty graph form.
Letting Cousins back willl be a backwards step for the AFL
This weekend, the AFL is deciding whether to bend the rules one more time to get Ben Cousins back on the field. Greg Hill looks at the potential repercussions of this decision.
Oz government sort of, but not really, opposes the death penalty
Does the Australian government openly opposes the death penalty, but at the same time doesn’t oppose it? It really depends on who is doing the dying, writes Irfan Yusuf.
Is global drugs policy about to shift?
Global drug policy may be about to undergo a major shift – if the United Nations has the courage and foresight to accept the recommendations of a recent forum it convened, writes Dr Alex Wodak.
It works, so why is Kings Cross injecting centre still on trial?
There is no doubt that Australia’s first Medically Supervised Injecting Centre has improved the health of the most marginalised injecting drug users. So why is it still on trial? asks Dr Ingrid Van Beek
Supporting cannabis law reform without inhaling
Although consumption has declined recently, significant demand for cannabis has existed in Australia for more than four decades, writes Alex Wodak.
Reality check: You need to s-x up politics to get eyeballs
‘Give me some gossip please’ should be the instruction to political journalists from editors interested in giving readers more of what they actually want to read. A study of news web sites over he last five week days shows that stories about the habits, frailties and foibles of celebrities are what the visitors turn to, writes Richard Farmer.
