Legalise Cannabis Queensland

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Legalise Cannabis Qld (Party)
Founded11 September 2020 (2020-09-11)
Ideology Legalisation of cannabis
National affiliation Legalise Cannabis Australia
Queensland Parliament
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Website
https://lcqparty.org/

Legalise Cannabis Queensland (registered with the Electoral Commission Queensland as Legalise Cannabis Qld (Party)) [1] is a political party based in Queensland, Australia. LCQ has a number of policies that centre around the personal, medical and industrial uses of cannabis. [2]

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The party was formed in 2020, and ran 23 candidates [3] in the Queensland state election in that year. [4] They received over 26,000 votes and 0.91% of the total first preference votes statwide, [5] gaining over 5% of the vote in some areas and 3 – 4% in others, [6] Ian Zunker received the party's biggest share of first preference votes in the state, with 5.51% in the electorate of Bundaberg. [7] The party finished as the sixth largest party by number of votes out of the twelve parties that contested the election.

Formation

The Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party was established when a group of like minded people containing members from the H.E.M.P. Party, Medical Cannabis Users Association of Australia (MCUA) and their associated networks formed a Facebook group with the intention of standing as independents in the October 2020 Queensland state election with the view of working loosely together to push for cannabis law reform in Queensland and share resources. They met in person on several occasions to discuss issues and policy. Then one person suggested maybe a political party would be a better way. [8] The party met the membership requirements for registration within a fortnight and on 1 July 2020 they submitted registration paperwork to the Electoral Commission of Queensland to run candidates at the October Queensland state election. [9] The party was registered as a political party by ECQ on 9 September 2020. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Registers". Queensland Electoral Commission. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  2. ↑ "New political party's plan to legalise cannabis" . Queensland Times. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  3. ↑ "2020 Queensland State Election Candidates". Candidates. Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  4. ↑ "Pot-smoking granny heads up Legalise Cannabis Qld party" . Courier Mail. 1 July 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  5. ↑ "2020 Queensland State Election Results". Queensland Electoral Commission. July 2019.
  6. ↑ Cornell, Karie (19 November 2020). "Newly formed pro-cannabis party launching in WA". Pondering Pot. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "Bundaberg vote count in Queensland election sees LNP's David Batt leading Labor's Tom Smith". ABC News. 6 November 2020.
  8. ↑ "History". Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "Hemp Embassy Headlines". Hemp Embassy. 4 June 2020.
  10. ↑ "Register of political parties". Electoral Commission Queensland. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.


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