JUDICIAL ACTIVISM AND PILL TESTING*

by Gary Christian

In late 2019, the findings of NSW Deputy Coroner Harriet Grahame’s inquiry into six drug-related deaths at music festivals were released.

That the findings contradict all science on party drug deaths is beyond dispute. But her call in paragraphs 544 and 545 for ending all prohibitions against the use of ecstasy betrays the presence of a radical agenda. Any such call lies well outside a coroner’s remit, whose role is rather to determine a cause of death, not to pretend…

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