The South Australian government in 1987 made widespread changes to the law concerning the possession and use of small amounts of cannabis. The implications of these changes are reviewed in a report of the Office of Crime Statistics entitled ‘Cannabis: The Expiation Notice Approach’.1 It is my intention in this paper to provide an overview of this report for the purpose of introducing readers to its major findings.
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