Clamping and Impounding Laws

The Hon. K.L. VINCENT (15:06): Supplementary: how many drivers have been found with cannabis in their system during roadside drug tests, and did any of these positive cannabis tests occur in people with disclosed medical conditions or disabilities where medical cannabis is a known treatment?

The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety) (15:06): Driving with cannabis in the system, regardless of the intent around its use, does remain an offence. We know that drug-driving tests, as they currently stand, can test for a number of drugs. One of those is cannabis, so no doubt those drug-driving statistics that I have referred to previously in this place would relate to those people who do get caught with cannabis in their system. I don't have at hand a breakdown, in terms of those drug-driving statistics, as to what percentage of them are people who are caught with cannabis in their system, but I will seek to obtain that information and pass it on to the member.