Terms of Use — The Rules for Using This Site

Terms of use

By using this site you accept these terms. They are written plainly on purpose, because terms nobody can read protect nobody.

This is information, not advice

Everything on this site is general information about the law. It is not legal advice and it is not medical advice, and it cannot be either, for one specific reason: advice requires knowing your circumstances, and we do not know them.

Drug-driving law in Australia is state law. The offence you may be charged with, the threshold that applies, whether a prescription is relevant, the penalty range, and whether any defence exists all depend on which jurisdiction you were in, what you were driving, what licence you hold, what was detected, and the facts of the stop. A general page cannot resolve any of that for your situation.

If you have been charged, get a lawyer. Do that before you enter a plea, and before you say anything you cannot take back. Our state pages list firms that practise in this area. If you are making decisions about your medication, that conversation belongs with your prescriber, not with a website.

What we do not do

We do not tell you when it is safe to drive after taking a medicine. No general resource can responsibly do that for a specific person, and any site that offers to is one you should not trust.

We do not help anyone avoid, mask or time around a drug test, and we do not publish material about it.

We do not advertise, promote or recommend medicinal cannabis products, brands, clinics or prescription services.

Accuracy, and its limits

We take accuracy seriously. Pages about the law are drafted from primary sources — legislation, bills, parliamentary records and official government publications — and each carries a "last verified" date so you can see when it was last checked. Our editorial policy explains the process.

But the law changes, sometimes quickly, and sometimes between the day we verify a page and the day you read it. Bills pass, thresholds are amended, penalty amounts are indexed, and courts interpret provisions in ways that shift how they apply in practice. A "last verified" date tells you when we checked; it is not a promise the position has not moved since.

So: check the date on the page, and verify anything that matters against the primary source we link to. Where a page says a rule exists but has not been tested in court, take that qualification seriously — it is the difference between knowing the words of a provision and knowing how a magistrate will apply it.

We do not warrant that this site is complete, current or error-free, and we may change or remove content at any time.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss, damage, cost or consequence arising from your use of this site or from anything you did or did not do based on it — including any fine, licence suspension, disqualification, conviction, loss of employment or other consequence.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee or right under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where we are permitted to limit a liability rather than exclude it, our liability is limited to supplying the relevant information again.

You use this site on the basis that you accept this allocation of risk. If you are not willing to, please do not rely on the site.

Third-party content and links

We link to legislation, government sites, court decisions and other external pages. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content or availability.

Some pages list law firms or other businesses, and some of those listings are paid placements. Paid placements are marked as such. A listing is not a recommendation, an endorsement, or a statement that the firm is suitable for your matter. We do not verify the quality of any firm's work, and you should make your own enquiries before engaging anyone.

Some pages contain affiliate links, disclosed on the page where they appear. If you buy through one we may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. That commission never affects what we write.

Advertisers and sponsors have no input into our legal content, no advance sight of it, and no ability to have a page altered or removed.

Intellectual property

The text, layout and original content of this site belong to us. You are welcome to read it, quote it with attribution, and link to it — we would rather be cited than copied. You may not republish substantial portions as your own work, or scrape the site to build a competing product.

Legislation, government publications and court decisions we quote remain the property of their respective owners and are reproduced for information purposes.

If you want to reproduce something for journalism, education or research, ask us — the answer is usually yes.

Corrections

If you think something here is wrong, please tell us. We would rather publish a correction than defend an error, and we treat a reported mistake as a priority. Contact us and we will respond within two business days.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of Queensland, Australia, and by the law of the Commonwealth of Australia where it applies. This site is intended for an Australian audience; if you use it elsewhere, the information will very likely not describe the law where you are.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The current version is always the one on this page.