Murdoch bullies Greens with ridiculous front page - drug decriminalisation

Apparently we're all supposed to take our brains out and think that the Greens want to have everyone on ice. Good grief, how pathetic.

It's the same principle as with HIV. If you criminalise HIV and throw people in jail for having sex, people who have HIV won't get treatment and won't be helped to control the disease.

Similarly, criminalising drug use by throwing them into the courts and jail for using drugs, people on drugs won't get treatment and won't be helped to control their drug use.

Demonising and stigmatising people with such problems only drives them away, the shame they feel playing a big part in even admitting their problem.