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Despite the long-term health risks associated with the move, a proposal to legalise Todd Carney for ‘recreational use’ has been released.
But the announcement has been met with fierce opposition from health groups, who claim Carney remains “a danger to the community” despite his clear dilution in quality and street value.
The former Origin rep has been prohibited from use in recent times, with lawmakers forced into a ban after numerous offences saw him puff-puff-given through a string of disaffected clubs.
But while research has proven sustained use of Carney can have negative long-term effects, the new proposal claims the party-peeing playmaker to now be safer than most prescription thugs currently on the market.
The research also believes he can’t be any worse than other harmful agents recently introduced to the game, such as Matt Lodge and Peter Beattie.
The new policy proposes it be legal to buy and use Carney, but only under strict, ‘responsible use’ guidelines.
This would allow for use only in ‘explicit emergencies’ such as an injury crisis, or when a multi-million dollar all-Queensland halves combination can’t force a repeat set to save themselves.
For the latter reason, the policy is said to have unlikely support from fierce conservative Bob Katter, who believes that even though Carney is a “nut on the jars”, it’s not like “he’s a crocodile tearing a person to pieces once every three months”.
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But health lobbyists remain unconvinced, with many seemingly terrified of Carney’s addictive value and horrific after-effects, plus his patent inability to comply with plain packaging rules.
A detailed rebuttal is already being drafted to the those proposing the policy, which will reportedly hand down recommendations such as they “lay off the grass”.
However, Carney legalisers remain stubborn, pointing to the success of decriminalisation in areas like Colorado, California and Amsterdam, and how he has never recorded a discrepancy in these areas.
They also believe the War on Carney has been an utter failure, with the initiative only serving to shift the issue on to the lucrative European black market, which in turn saw it unfairly forced on to local regional communities.
For those unconvinced, they say Carney’s ten-plus mea culpas should be enough to believe he won’t bring harm again.
The NRL is yet to publicly state its position on the proposal, preferring to remain silent until it seeks advice from its trusted industry specialists, which is mainly talkback.
However, it did confirm it was considering proposals to outlaw Ronnie Palmer’s energy dust and Jackson Hastings.