Ice is a drug like no other. The addiction take up is almost instant and it is cheap enough for kids to start using young. And treatment is almost never successful

To waste time and money arresting users is the stupidest thing I ever heard.

The task force should have been led with a social agenda, not a law and order agenda. The focus should be on manufacturers and education, not on users.

And (call me cynical but) over the last year or so the Abbott government has stopped funding research for addiction and treatment plus it has moved funding for many post-recovery and rehabilitation programmes for drug users almost entirely to non governement bodies. Up until last week, even that funding was had been axed. Government funding is now almost non existent to the most vulnerable groups such as indigenous youth.

And it's not as if we are talkng big money here - we are only talking about $15mill a year! This is the same amount of money that the government has wasted trying to sell Pynes tertiary education ideas.