Cannabis Easier to Buy Than Pizza, Drug Expert Dr Alex Wodak Says

Posted by Raymond on February 21, 2010

From News.com.au:

Cannabis is easier to buy than a pizza, says a drug expert, so why not legalise and tax it to benefit everyone? Dr Alex Wodak, the director of the Alcohol and Drug Service at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital, says cannabis will soon be Australia’s smoke of choice.

“In a few years time, we’ll have more Australians smoking cannabis than we have smoking tobacco and by default that market is largely taken over by criminals,” Dr Wodak said.

“Having a black market of that size is not good for anybody and inevitably big black markets can only survive if there’s significant police corruption.’

Dr Wodak delivered the keynote address at the Australian Drug Law and a Civil Society symposium at the Lismore campus of Southern Cross University today. He also heads the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation.

At the moment, we have no control over cannabis at all because the trade is run by criminals,” he said from Lismore.

“By taxing and regulating it, we would start to have some influence over the way people use cannabis.

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