Adding to the chorus of experts that consider the TGA's move to ban poppers as a waste of time and ineffective in its goal of improving public health, former Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Palmer has told the National Press Club that a ban would be ineffective. 
Coverage on the speech was made by The Guardian overnight, see the attached article.

Also speaking at the event was Matt Noffs of the Noffs Foundation, Australia's largest drug and alcohol treatment service provider for young people. Noffs told The Guardian “the simple answer is: we don’t get any control by banning a substance, by prohibiting it."

We agree with Matt, we want to take control of our health, take control of our decision making, and take control of our sex lives - this can be achieved by regulating poppers, not by banning them and pushing them underground. Evidence from around the world concludes that drug prohibition results in negative public health outcomes, and only through regulation and drug harm minimisation can we achieve positive health outcomes. Not to mention the criminalisation of sex with poppers alongside the TGA's potential decision to list it as a Schedule 9 substance will unnecessarily make criminals of a huge proportion of the LGBTIQ community that require poppers to comfortably engage in sex - it's not on. 

Please share the petition with your networks to tell the TGA not to ban poppers, to take a rational public health approach to its use - regulate and educate on poppers.