Sign our Petition calling for a Drug Royal Commission

We call on the Parliament to establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry into:

The health, social, economic, and law enforcement costs of the Drug Prohibition.

The laws do not stop people from using drugs or protect families. After 50 years of harsh enforcement, illicit drugs are more available than ever.

Will you help us convince the government that the war on drug users does more harm than good? 

Recent responses

  • Harm Reduction – saves lives.

    Prohibition – Kills (and fails!)


    - andyturbo

    Pill Reports Head Administrator www.pillreports.net
  • I am a heroin user and am afraid of the synthetic future.

    If we look at USA they now have even worse synthesized drugs in their “street heroin” that contains NO OPIUM DERIVATIVES!

    If I could legally have been acquiring diamorphine rather than some pathetic 1st gen German synthetic hence its name METHODone. I think I wouldn’t be homeless, I would have a family, my health would be great BC I wouldn’t have had to resort to horrible and nasty extremes!! My addiction is completely connected to the opioid OXYCODONE and the story is NOT UNIQUE it’s playing out on drama TV Movies and series NOW … such as dope sick 🤢


    Big pharma started this and they too can help to control it and destigmatize it too (GOVERNMENT MUST ALLOW!) by making it possible to USE AND SAFELY CONTROL the real heroin that pharma currently skirt around by making everything but diamorphine…. It’s a fkn joke!!


    I’ve lost too many friends and colleagues to this horror story
  • It’s not like we need more data to determine the best way to deal with drugs or correct misconceptions but a royal commission has the status that might actually lead to substantive, evidence driven and coordinated change. Let’s remove the misconceptions and prejudices from the debate and hope that there are politicians with the courage to make sensible choices.
  • Shifting policy away from criminalisation and punitive responses and looking toward justice reinvestment into health and social programs is a sensible and compassionate move towards building a better society for everyone. Let’s be recognised for pulling people together instead of dividing and segregating. The War on Drugs was built on imperialism and racism and no scientific evidence of the how drug harms occur. We know that stigma, discrimination and criminalisation only lead to greater harms than drug use itself and is not compassionate policy. It is cruel and oppressive. Re-examine the historical context of how international drug control policies evolved and recognise that it contravenes basic human rights. We can do better!
  • Alcohol is the most dangerous drug; followed closely by tobacco! Proscribed drugs should at least be de-criminalised.
  • Legalised licenced taxed. Australian standards. Dispensed by educated professionals not uneducated dealers.

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  • illegal drug supply business model is entirely dependent on prohibition.

    free but controlled supply of drugs makes street drugs worthless!!! and saves lives. The gov spends our money to make crims rich via prohibition, nice ay?
  • We know prohibition doesn’t work, why are we continuing this failed policy?
  • Please, end the madness of the so-called “War on Drugs”. All the compelling evidence is in Johann Hari’s masterpiece “Chasing The Scream”.
  • end the war now!
  • It’s about time we join the rest of the world in realising that harm minimisation for our citizens is far more beneficial to society than the punitive stance we take now.
  • I support the Royal Commission of Inquiry.


    Terms of reference should be evidence-based and include an economic analysis of costs to individuals, the health system, opportunity costs of foregone employment. Discrimination on the basis of drug usage is a current cost. The costs and benefits of drug legalisation should be showcased.


    Not only drug usage but multi-pronged strategies which develop skills and capabilities for employment should be included.

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