WOMAN SAYS NEW DRUG LAWS TARGETED HER UNFAIRLY

The Northern Territory Police Minister, Paul Henderson, says a public
housing tenant in Darwin's Smith Street was given adequate warning
about drug activity there and she is being evicted.

Darwin's first drug house sign was erected outside 54-year-old Margot
Houghton's Territory Housing flat today under new Territory drug laws.

Ms Houghton says she only uses marijuana for medicinal reasons and has
been unfairly targeted by the legislation.

But Mr Henderson says he will not allow drug activity in public
housing.

"It's absolutely intolerable that public housing, subsidised public
housing paid for by the tax payer, are used to distribute illicit
drugs," he said.

"We're not going to stand for it and the 99.9 per cent of good public
housing tenants across the Territory aren't going to stand for it."