Background and Terms of Reference
Discoveries or marijuana plantations in several places in New South Wales, allegations that a criminal organisation existed based in the production and distribution of drugs and the sudden unexplained accumulation of wealth, especially in the town of Griffith lead to lobbying for a Royal Commission into the drug trafficking business. The pressure culminated after 15 July 1977 when the disappearance of Donald Bruce Mackay, an activist against the drug trade, was believed to have been engineered by drug trafficking interests.
The Commission was proclaimed in NSW Government Gazette on 5 August 1977 (p. 3339) when the Honourable Philip Morgan Woodward was appointed sole Commissioner to:
- "enquire into and report upon
- 1. The cultivation, production, manufacture, distribution, supply, possession and use of:
- (a) drugs that are, for the time being drugs of addiction or prohibited drugs within the meaning of the Poisons Act, 1966; and
- (b) other drugs (other than tobacco or alcohol) that are drugs of dependence or of dependence potential
- 2. the identity of persons involved in:
- (a) the cultivation, production, manufacture, distribution or supply, where contrary to the laws of the State, of drugs of the kind referred to in paragraph 1, or in the possession or use by others, when contrary to those laws, of those drugs; or illegal or improper activities in connection with the matters referred to in subparagraph (a); and
- 3. whether, in the light of the findings of the Commission on the above matters, changes are desirable in:
- (a) the manner in which the laws of the State relating to the cultivation, production, manufacture, distribution, supply, possession and use of drugs of the kinds referred to in paragraph 1 are administered by the authorities of the State, whether acting alone or in co-operation with the authorities of other States or the Commonwealth; or
- (b) those laws referred to in subparagraph (a)
- 1. The cultivation, production, manufacture, distribution, supply, possession and use of:
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