Steve Price has discussed his historic drug arrest, admitting that he faced justice when he was caught smoking marijuana as a young man.
The right wing pundit was appearing on The Project when the topic of legalising recreational cannabis came up.
The 68-year-old was quick to insist that legalising marijuana, ‘will get more people sitting around, smoking dope on the dole.’
Steve Price(pictured) has discussed his historic drug arrest, admitting that he faced justice when he was caught smoking marijuana as a young man
But in vilifying the drug, which is legal in several countries around the world, Price admitted that he had to make a confession.
‘I will make one concession. When I was young, I was arrested’ he said, adding that he had first publicly revealed the arrest in his Herald Sun column last year.
‘I had a column about a year ago and my mother didn’t know about it and suddenly I go the in huge trouble from her’ he said.
The right wing pundit was appearing on The Project when the topic of legalising recreational cannabis came up. The 68-year-old was quick to insist that legalising marijuana, ‘will get more people sitting around, smoking dope on the dole’
But in vilifying the drug, which is legal in several countries around the world, Price admitted that he had to make a confession. ‘I will make one concession. When I was young, I was arrested’ he said, adding that he had first publicly revealed the arrest in his column last year
‘Everyone was smoking marijuana that was fairly mild and I didn’t take to it. I don’t use it now and I didn’t continue to use.
‘The that’s an embarrassment for me, but if I prosecute the argument that we shouldn’t do, then I have to make the confession’.
Steve last year revealed he was arrested by police and charged with drug possession for smoking marijuana some 40 years ago.
‘Everyone was smoking marijuana that was fairly mild and I didn’t take to it. I don’t use it now and I didn’t continue to use’ he said
The conservative-leaning panellist disclosed the surprising details as he voiced his opposition to a national push by the Greens to legalise recreational cannabis.
The campaign, which is being led by doctor and state Greens MP Tim Read, also calls on the government to decriminalise small quantities of other drugs.
Price claimed he wanted to tell his story about his arrest to prove he wasn’t a ‘raging hypocrite’ when it came to slamming the Greens push.
‘I hate what drugs do to people but I would be a raging hypocrite not to admit what had happened in the dim, dark past in my early 20s,’ he wrote in The Herald Sun
‘I hate what drugs do to people but I would be a raging hypocrite not to admit what had happened in the dim, dark past in my early 20s,’ he wrote in The Herald Sun.
‘Somewhere on file, in the bowels of the South Australia police department, would be, I guess, a folder with my name on it.’
Price, who was still working as a newspaper journalist, was caught by police smoking a joint with two others inside a car registered in his name.
The officers discovered marijuana ‘in a plastic bag in the glovebox’ in Price’s vehicle, parked outside a hotel that was hosting a work function.
Steve last year revealed he was arrested by police and charged with drug possession for smoking marijuana some 40 years ago
Price was arrested, charged with drug possession and had to face the South Australian Magistrates’ Court over the matter.
His said in his Herald Sun column that he was able to ‘intercept the warrant with the charges and court date mailed to my parents’ home’ – meaning his mum had no idea.
Price explained that he was only issued a fine and received no other penalty.
‘Can you imagine if I appeared today on drugs charges? The internet would break,’ he added.
Price was arrested, charged with drug possession and had to face the South Australian Magistrates’ Court over the matter
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