Delayed response to drug use report due to ‘competing views’, NSW premier says

Dominic Perrottet insists government will respond shortly to the complicated issues' raised by 2018 inquiry into ice addiction

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The New South Wales premier, Dominic Perrottet, has conceded there are competing views" in his cabinet over a landmark inquiry that recommended the complete decriminalisation of drug possession.

Perrottet said his government would respond very shortly" to the findings of the special commission into ice addiction - commissioned in 2018 - after the Guardian revealed there was still no response to the report.

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