Wednesday, 26. May 2004

Topic: DRUGS - on May 26, 2004 at 11:11:00 AM CEST

Make drug legal or risk riots

Heroin should be decriminalised and a safe injecting room set up in Redfern, Sydney's Lord Mayor and the MP for Bligh, Clover Moore, has told the state parliamentary inquiry into the February riot in the suburb. She said inner-city residents supported decriminalisation.

"Yes, and the community I represent says 'yes, yes, yes'," she said. "It would be very beneficial for the community in terms of reduction of crime and helping [users] get the support they need."

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