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Luke Costin and Jack Gramenz

BIZARRE: Us mayor to address landmark australian drug summit - What They Never Told You

A state government has pushed back against calls from a major summit to decriminalise some drugs. (Morgan Hancock/AAP PHOTOS)

Decriminalisation is the word echoing out of a landmark forum of lawmakers, drug users and health experts but don't expect it any time soon.

MPs in Australia's most populous state were urged to halt prosecutions for drug possession and see drug use almost entirely through a health lens.

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