CHIKAROVSKI ADMITS SHE SMOKED MARIJUANA

New South Wales Opposition Leader Kerry Chikarovski has admitted
smoking marijuana while at university. But Chikarovski said the drug
should not be legalised because it was much stronger now than in her
youth.

"Do you want me to use the Clinton defence? Did I inhale?" Chikarovski
told ABC radio when asked if she had tried dope.

"Look, let me say I had a couple of goes of marijuana when I was at
uni and enough to make me realise that this was not the sort of thing
I liked to do.

"What scares me I suppose, worse than that, is that I'm told that the
marijuana that's available now is 30 times stronger that what was
around when my generation was using it."

Her candour is certain to cause a stir less than a week before a drug
summit begins in the NSW parliament.

She said current anti-marijuana laws should be enforced and was
against any change in the law.

"My view is we don't want to encourage people to use drugs and I would
have thought making it legal in fact encourages more use," she said.