Cannabis law reform
David LIMBRICK (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (16:35): (388) My adjournment matter this evening is for the Minister for Health. Earlier today I spoke about organised crime, and I am going to talk about organised crime again. The market earlier today that I was talking about was vaping. But I would like to talk about another market that the government has neglected to deal with, and that is the cannabis market, often referred to as the blue-chip stock of organised crime. This is a vast market in Victoria, and for reasons that totally escape me the government continues with its failed prohibition policy. Prohibition has failed, is failing and will continue to fail in the future. If we want to attack organised crime and get rid of or at least reduce the crime and corruption in this state that have been going on for decades now, we need to tackle the root cause, which is drug prohibition. So my request to the minister is this: urgently look into how we can get a legal cannabis market for adults in Victoria to instantly annihilate the organised criminal control of this market and bring it into legal hands, so that we do not have this market controlled by organised crime. I would like to say it is an absolute mystery to me, on an issue that is so popular, that would sail through Parliament, why the government continues to hold back. I think that they need to be bold. They need to be bold on drug law reform. They have done bold moves on drug law reform in the past. I urge them to move forward as quickly as possible on this issue and to legalise cannabis in Victoria.