Queensland Consolidated Acts

DRUGS MISUSE ACT 1986 - SECT 8A

8A Publishing or possessing instructions for producing dangerous drugs

(1) A person who unlawfully publishes instructions, or unlawfully has possession of a document containing instructions, about the way to produce a dangerous drug commits a crime.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) if the dangerous drug to which the instructions relate is a thing specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987 , schedule 1 —25 years imprisonment; or

(b) if the dangerous drug to which the instructions relate is a thing specified in the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987 , schedule 2 —20 years imprisonment.

(2) It is a defence to a charge of an offence against subsection (1) of unlawfully publishing instructions, or unlawfully possessing a document containing instructions, about the way to produce cannabis as a commercial fibre or seed crop, for a person to prove that the person published the instructions, or possessed the document containing the instructions, for a purpose authorised under part 5B .

(3) In this section—

"document" containing instructions about the way to produce a dangerous drug includes anything designed to enable electronic access specifically to the instructions.

Example of a thing designed to enable electronic access to instructions—

a document containing a computer password specifically designed to give access through a computer to the instructions

"publish" includes publish to any person and supply, exhibit and display to any person, whether the publication is made orally or in written, electronic or another form.