Buying drugs online: NSW lawyers 'radical proposal' to decriminalise drugs

By Michaela Whitbourn
Updated December 23 2014 - 4:08am, first published December 22 2014 - 4:08pm
The The NSW Bar Association's criminal law committee says existing laws aimed at curbing illicit drug use and supply are not working.
The The NSW Bar Association's criminal law committee says existing laws aimed at curbing illicit drug use and supply are not working.

A teenager on Sydney's northern beaches orders cocaine online and has it posted to their front door. It is just one of the signs that existing drug laws have "substantially failed", according to top criminal barristers in NSW.

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