The federal government is pledging $600 million for a new pacific-wide initiative to stop cocaine smuggling in the region.

3AW Mornings host Tom Elliott said the way drug use within Australia was legislated and policed contradicted this idea.

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“What’s the point of going after drug smugglers unless you go after drug users?” he said.

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