Mr. Tony Duffin:

It is one route into treatment services. Some people do self-referrals and some people go to their GP. There are routes in. The difference now is that under prohibition it is a criminal justice response. Under decriminalisation, the pathway will be the helper. It is not the sole pathway; that is the point. It is the alternative to the criminal justice approach. I understand where people are coming from when they look at it boldly like that. There are self-referrals, peer-to-peer referrals, going to GPs, outreach, in-reach and all sorts of things. It would just mean not sending people up to the courts and indeed to prison.