The personal use of ice and other illicit drugs would be decriminalised in NSW under a public health-focused drug policy aimed at harm minimisation.
Superintendent tells inquiry that officers are reluctant to refer offenders to"soft"treatment programs.
Those whose names are drawn from the ballot have the chance to undergo treatment. The rest are sent to prison.
It is illegal to own a crack pipe,but taking ice this way is far safer than injecting it,an inquiry into ice and other amphetamines heard on Tuesday.
A world expert on drug policy says pill testing works - by reducing supply,demand and the harms associated with taking ecstasy.
Former NSW police commissioner Andrew Scipione told a roundtable on decriminalisation of amphetamine-type substances that NSW had failed to stop people from experimenting with drugs.
Responding to a request to consider a needle exchange program to stop infection,NSW Corrective Services Commissioner Peter Severin categorically ruled it out.
From Star Wars to inside NSW prisons,a former inmate who had an addiction to ice tells drugs were everywhere on the inside.
In hearings around NSW,users of the drug'ice"and other amphetamines said they faced stigma which stopped them from getting treatment from a doctor.
Grandparents,who once cared for their grandchildren,had started to use ice. That meant there was nowhere safe for the children to go.
Garbage was often contaminated by users"just putting needles in the bins",the council said. The vast majority of people injecting drugs were ice users,said a separate submission.