Labor preferences Legalise Cannabis Queensland ahead of Greens in 28 seats in state election

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Labor preferences Legalise Cannabis Queensland ahead of Greens in 28 seats in state election
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Labor is recommending its voters put Legalise Cannabis Queensland second in all but one of the seats the minor party is running candidates.

Labor is recommending its voters put Legalise Cannabis Queensland second in all but one of the seats that the minor party is running in this state election .

Preferential voting — where voters must number every ballot paper box in order of preference — is compulsory in Queensland state elections. "What we have done is make sure there is more diversion in the system. So if someone is apprehended because they have a small quantity of illegal substances on them, they are then diverted to a health provider ... after a number of diversions they will then eventually go to the criminal justice system."

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