It has been claimed by the Australian Sex Party that personal drug use should be decriminalized and that the people who indulge in illegal drug use should not be put behind bars but should be sent for rehabilitation.

According to an Australian criminologist, Professor Paul Wilson, drug abuse costs Australia about $3.8 billion annually. The party president and Victorian Senate candidate, Fiona Patten promised that decriminalization of personal drug use would be initiated if the party won a seat in federal parliament. He proclaimed it at the launch of the party's revolutionary drug law policy in Sydney.

This new policy will back decriminalization in all possible ways, though it would not support legalization of ownership as well as personal use of drugs up to 14 days' supply for each person. The policy also supports to legalize the use of cannabis for medical purposes.

It would still be considered a criminal offence to deal and supply drugs to a minor, shared Ms. Patten. She also elaborated that the same policy was put into practice in Portugal. As a consequence, drug use declined and it was witnessed that the count of people who sought health assistance for their drug abuse and addiction increased three times.

She said, “The Australian Sex Party is first and foremost a civil liberties party, but it's also about getting government intervention out of people's lives, allowing adults to make those decisions for themselves”.