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Fake pot sales hitting a high

 THE crackdown on synthetic marijuana is a shambles, with no one charged and sales booming.
A proposed tough new law banning the sale of products "intended to have a similar pharmacological effect" to cannabis, lapsed with the change of government.
Police seized about 100kg of suspected synthetic cannabis in statewide raids six months ago but, since then, a Sunday Mail investigation has found that a tobacconist in a southeast Queensland mining town was still selling it until late last month, when police "provided advice".
Although the tobacconist had a separate till to ring up the lucrative product, and it was drawing a queue of mining workers, nothing was seized by attending police. Officers told The Sunday Mail that one tobacconist in another regional mining area was making $1000 a day selling fake cannabis.
Miners had turned to the product because it could not be detected in standard workplace drug testing.
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Saliva-only drug tests to greatly increase mine safety risks

Safe Work Australia and the National Mine Safety Framework (NMSF) must abandon proposals that
would impede mining employers from administering the onsite drug and alcohol tests that best suit
their enterprises, resource industry employer group AMMA has said.
With the National Mining Regulations currently being finalised, AMMA has previously raised its
concerns about proposed limitations on drug and alcohol testing procedures under the soon-to-be
harmonised OHS regulations for onshore mining operators.
The regulatory model developed under the auspices of Safe Work Australia and the NMSF would
require majority consent from a workforce before an employer could implement a drug and alcohol
testing system based on anything other than saliva.

Fair Work Australia consents to forced drug tests for building workers

 BUILDING workers will be able to be forced to take drug and alcohol tests following a Fair Work Australia decision that has been described as a "giant leap forward" for the industry.
The full bench decision follows significant tensions in the construction industry over drug and alcohol-affected workers on job sites, with employers arguing they pose a significant safety risk.
Master Builders Association of Victoria executive director Brian Welch said the ruling was a "landmark" decision.
"People who don't say anything about their (drug and alcohol) problem to their union or their employer put their colleagues at risk. We're not moving paper clips here, we're moving heavy machinery and cranes. This is a giant leap forward for the building industry," he said.

CFMEU efforts are out of touch

VICTORIA's Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union is no doubt proud of its reputation as the state's most militant union.
Several of its officials have been charged in recent years over intimidatory behaviour, and it is involved in regular stoushes with developers and big construction companies around Melbourne.
But its latest tactic -- going to court to try to shield workers from drug tests -- shows how out-of-touch with the modern workforce this union really is.
The CFMEU is seeking to strip big builder Thiess of the power to require workers -- many of them CFMEU members -- to undergo drug testing.
Thiess is building the State Government's desalination plant at Wonthaggi and the $2.2 billion M80 Ring Rd Upgrade in Melbourne.
The fact is that most major construction sites in Australia require workers to be drug and alcohol free. This is to protect the workers from injury or death from the dangerous machinery they operate on site. So strict are these laws that workers in some of the remote mine sites in northern Australia have to be careful they don't have one beer too many the night before, in case they return a positive alcohol reading when they front up for work the next day.
Any move to make a workplace safer should be embraced, not resisted.

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