Tobacconists and other retailers who sold books on how to grow cannabis or
make other drugs risked up to 20 years in jail under new drug laws in
Queensland. The head of the State Drug Investigation Squad, Detective
Superintendent Kerry Dunn, said changes to the drug laws made it an offence
to possess or distribute any literature that contained instructions about
making drugs.

However, the new law was attacked as being draconian. Queensland Writer
Centre chairman Terry O'Connor said "This appears to make classic literary
texts illegal". "If you extend the logic on this it would appear to make
just about all murder mysteries illegal because they tell you how to commit
murder". No other state in Australia has taken such steps.