Government Reports

1979 SA Royal Commission Into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs
Cannabis Report
A summary

1994 Australian Institute of Criminology
Legislative Options for Cannabis
A summary with links to the whole report in both HTML & PDF formats.

1994 Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy
National Cannabis Taskforce Report

1995 Legislative Council Select Committee
Report Into Illegal Drugs & Drugs of Dependance
A summary

1998 Drug & Alcohol Services Council (DASC) & National Drug Research Institute (NDR)I
Social Impacts of the Cannabis Expiation Notice Scheme
Our synopsis - see below for URLS of individual reports.

1999 Access Economics
*The Cost of the Black Market (*not exact title)
A summary

1999 NSW Parliament Library
The Medical Use of Cannabis: Recent Developments. Briefing Paper No. 1/99

1998 DASC
The Medical & Therapeutic use of Cannabis
A summary

1999 University of Western Australia's Economic Research Centre.
The Economics of Marijuana Consumption
A summary & link

2000 National Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
The Regulation of Cannabis Possession, Use and Supply
A summary & link

Cannabis & Driving:
An Annotated List of Recent Studies

Dutch Government Study on THC Content of Cannabis

The monographs listed below are available from the Population Health Division of the Commonwealth Dep.t of Health & Aged Care.

See the entire Population Health Division Publications List here

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Monograph 18 Comparative analysis of illicit drug strategy
Date Published: 1992 ISBN: 0 644 24350 3
Author: Prepared for the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy by the Australian Institute of Criminology  

Monograph 25 The Health and psychological consequences of Cannabis use

Date Published: 1994 ISBN: 0 644 35085 7
Author: Wayne Hall, Nadia Solowij and Jim Lemon, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. Prepared for the National Task Force on Cannabis
Please note - this publication is no longer available in hard copy

Monograph 26 Legislative Options for Cannabis in Australia

HTML version

PDF Version

(464Kb)
Date Published: 1994 ISBN: 0 644 35086 5
Author: David McDonald, Rhonda Moore, Jennifer Norberry, Grant Wardlaw, Nicola Ballenden, Australian Institute of Criminology Canberra ACT. Prepared for the National Task Force on Cannabis.

Monograph 27 Patterns of Cannabis use in Australia
Date Published: 1994 ISBN: 0 644 35087 3
Author: Neil Donnelly and Wayne Hall National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre University of NSW Prepared for the National Task Force on Cannabis

Monograph 28 Public perceptions of Cannabis legislation
Date Published: 1994 ISBN: 0 644 35088 1
Author: Jenny Bowman and Rob Sanson- Fisher Prepared for the National Task Force on Cannabis

Monograph 29 Public perceptions of Health and Psychological consequences of Cannabis use

(408Kb)
Date Published: 1995 ISBN: 0 644 42830 9
Author: Wayne Hall, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre and Joan Nelson, Reark Research. Prepared for the National Task Force on Cannabis.

Monograph 30 The social cost of drug abuse in Australia 1988 and 1992

(302Kb)
Date Published: 1996 ISBN: 0 644 35742 8
Author: David J. Collins and Helen M. Lapsley.

Monograph 31 Marijuana in Australia: patterns and attitudes

(512Kb)
Date Published: 1997 ISBN: 0 642 27206 9
Author: Toni Makkai, Australian Institute of Criminology, and Ian McAllister, University of NSW.

Monograph 33 Australian secondary students¹ use of over-the-counter and illicit substances in 1996

(417Kb) Date Published: 1998 ISBN: 0 642 36799X
Author: Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria

Monograph 34 The Social Impacts of the Cannabis Expiation Notice Scheme in South Australia

(200Kb)
Date Published: 1999. ISBN: 0 642394245
Author: Robert Ali, Paul Christie, Simon Lenton, David Hawks, Adam Sutton, Wayne Hall, Steve Allsop

Monograph 35 Cannabis Offences Under the Cannabis Expiation Notice Scheme in South Australia

(365Kb)
Date Published: 1999. ISBN: 0 642394202
Author: Paul Christie

Monograph 36 Infringement versus Conviction: the Social Impact of a Minor Cannabis Offence Under a Civil Penalties System and Strict Prohibition in Two Australian States

(153Kb)
Date Published: 1999. ISBN: 0 642394210
Author: Simon Lenton, Paul Christie, Rachel Humeniuk, Alisen Brooks, Mike Bennett, Penny Heale

Monograph 37 Effects of the Cannabis Expiation Notice Scheme on Levels and Patterns of Cannabis use in South Australia: Evidence from the National Drug Strategy Household Surveys 1985 ­ 1995

(92Kb)
Date Published: 1999. ISBN: 0 642394229
Author: Neil Donnelly, Wayne Hall, Paul Christie

Monograph 38 A Review of Law Enforcement and Other Criminal Justice Attitudes, Policies and Practices Regrading Cannabis and Cannabis Laws in South Australia

(144Kb)
Date Published: 1999. ISBN: 0 642394237
Author: Adam Sutton & Elizabeth McMillan

HEMP SA
SUBMISSION TO THE SA DRUG SUMMIT 2002

Our view on how we should deal with Cannabis use in SA.

HEMP SA
Regulating Cannabis: A New Way Forward

A Paper presented to the 1st Australasian Conference on Drug Policy , Adelaide, March 1999.

HEMP SA Submission for the Standing Committee of Attorney-Generals' Model Criminal Code.
On Chapter 6 - Serious Drug Offences

HEMP SA Submission to the House of Representatives Select Committee
On the Social & Economic Costs of "Drug Abuse" June 2000

Coming Soon:

HEMP SA submission to the SA Legislative Council Select Committee on Illegal Drugs and Drugs of Dependance. (1993-5).

HEMP SA submission to the Penington Enquiry

THC content research exposes truth about "Killer weed"

The latest developments in South Australia

Commissioner calls for zero tolerance

Lateline
Medical Marijuana debate (Prof. Wayne Hall vs Dr John Anderson)
ABC TV (Australia) Lateline (date unknown)

The Australian 28-29/10/00 p2(?)
Grass roots with a twist of truth - Emma Tom
Hilarioiusly funny review of Grass (the movie documentary)

The Advertiser 26/10/2000 p 19
Stirring the Pot - Samela Harris & Jonathon Hart
Looks at the debate stirred up by Commissioner Hydes " Dr Jekyll" plan.

The Sunday Age 20/8/00 p 8.
Adelaide, the Amsterdam of the South - Penelope Debelle

28/11/99 Background Briefing - ABC Radio National
Adelaide - Cannabis Capital
This reporter ignored our input and refused to address our issues, concerns and evidence.

[For our perspective on the issues he raises see "The Three Plant Plan Briefing paper"
we produced several months earlier]

The Age 14/7/00
Marijuana Decision has SA Users Lighting Up in Celebration
Good news, but it was not for long

23/6/00 Business Review Weekly
Agribusiness: Joint interest in Economy Gone to Pot
Prohibition means big dollars can be made growing Cannabis.
Why wont the government tax it?

24/2/99 The Advertiser, p18
Yes, a Marijuana-led Recovery - Samela Harris
An excellent article that offers a positive way forward.
A must read article - if only our pollies would take notice we could truly become the "Amsterdam of the South"

The City Messenger 1997
A front page story in the City's free Murdoch owned weekly

The Australian Nov 3rd, p10, Canberra Times, p3?
Newspoll 99
A Newspoll conducted on behalf of Life Education shows 75% of Australians back decriminalisation of Cannabis!
Politicians take note!

24/7/00 Australian Financial Review (Australia)
Amsterdam of the South
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 Author: Christopher Pearson
This politically inspired piece (by John Howards speechwriter) is seriously flawed, inaccurate and sensationalist, descending into a welfare-bashing exercise that makes no positive contribution to the debate.