There are some vexatious issues about whether or not cannabis use increases crash risk.

These Panels aim to treat people experiencing problems connected with the misuse of drugs of dependence, or prohibited substances, (not being cannabis or cannabis resin) without the necessity of a court appearance.

The Advisory Council reviewed and advised the Minister about amendments to the regulations related to:  Cannabis and tetrahydrocannabinols for human therapeutic use  Low THC Cannabis sativa seeds and seed products as food  Uniform Controls over Schedule 5, 6 and 7 poisons  Remaking the Controlled Substances (Pesticides) Regulations 2003.

In 2023, the ACIC conservatively estimated that there were approximately 200,000 illicit firearms, comprising 190,000 long arms and 10,000 handguns, in the domestic illicit market. 16 Board of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission | Chair Annual Report 2023–24 Table 3.1: Key substances in the Australian illicit drug market 2023–24 Substance Market characteristics Cannabis Serious and organised crime (SOC) groups are well established in the Australian cannabis market, although they do not dominate it.

Operation Mantle seized 347 247 grams of dried cannabis; 3025 cannabis plants; 51 459.6 grams of amphetamines; 352 grams of heroin; 42.9 grams of cocaine; 19 2209 ecstasy tablets; 126 LDS tabs; and $758 000 in cash.

Operation Culture Operation Culture was initiated in response to intelligence in two states that identified a group from South Australia involved in the large scale cultivation of cannabis.

Substances (Controlled Drugs, Precursors and Plants) Regulations 2014 The Advisory Council reviewed and advised the Minister about amendments to the regulations, related to: o new psychoactive substances that may cause dependence in humans or are of exceptional danger to humans including designer benzodiazepines, fentanyl derivatives, phenibut, and a synthetic opioid analgesic and declaration of these as controlled drugs; o the potential for synthesis of fentanyl derivatives using precursors of fentanyl and declaration of these as controlled precursors; o the salts of analogues and homologues of substances declared as controlled drugs would also be captured as controlled drugs; o the change to the Food Standards Code on 12 November 2017 that permits use of hemp seed and hemp seed products as food; o the establishment of a licensing scheme for cultivation, processing and supply of low THC hemp under the Industrial Hemp Act 2017; o clarification of prescribed amounts for cannabis

The main study focused on heroin, amphetamines, cocaine and cannabis markets and has been conducted since 1997 in South Australia.

There are some vexatious issues about whether or not cannabis use increases crash risk.

(2) Subclause (1) applies to the following offences: (a) an indictable offence; (b) common assault or an offence of violence; (c) a summary offence against Part 5 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935; (d) an offence against the Controlled Substances Act 1984 involving a prohibited substance or a drug of dependence, other than a simple cannabis offence within the meaning of section 45A of that Act; (e) an offence against the Firearms Act 1977, other than an offence against section 15C, 18, 21A, 21AB 0r26 of that Act; (f) an offence against section 15 or 15A of the Summary Offences Act 1953; (g) an offence against the Police Act 1998; (h) an offence against the Listening and Surveillance Devices Act 1972; (i) an offence against the Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979 of the Commonwealth; (j) an offence against the Act or these regulations; (k) an offence substantially similar to any of the above offences against the law of the Commonwealth, another