A nursery/garden located in the Oak Valley community allows easier access for elders to teach both school children and visitors from other communities the value of native plants for bush tucker and medicinal use.

Of the 485 detections, 453 resulted in an arrest/report, drug diversion and/or cannabis expiation notices.

Several noted the need to consider problems related to use of amphetamines and cannabis.

It is arguable, that committed, continuous use of cannabis would amount to unprofessional conduct.

The University of Melbourne Centre for Adolescent Health has followed nearly 2000 teenage high school students since 1992 and found that 80% of those surveyed reported using alcohol or cannabis by the age of 17.

In 2018 -19 SAPOL issued 8 304 cannabis expiation notices, seized around 222 kilograms of methamphetamine, 6 645 cannabis plants, 15 kilograms of heroin and 939 litres of fantasy; as well as located/dismantled 59 clandestine laboratories.

While the implications of this observation are discussed in detail in Chapter 4 of this report, Figure 3.1 below illustrates the average value of these contracts; several industries (such as the human pharmaceutical and medicinal product manufacturing industry) are excluded as the small number of contracts procured from these industries skew the representation of the data for the majority of the industries.

At Murajawijinie Caves, Nullarbor Parks Advisory Committee Member and Mirning Elder Dorcas Miller shows NRC Presiding Member Hon Steph Key MP a shrub used for making a traditional medicinal ointment.

He said there were cannabis plants growing at the house.

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