Recommendations of decriminalizing personal drugs use and possession

The council assisting the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into Ice has recommended decriminalising personal drug use and possession.

The commission will also be told that a drug-testing trial should be introduced at music festivals and other ongoing fixed locations.

Ms Dowling will recommend the New South Wales Government implement a new policy emphasising drug use as "a health and social issue" rather than a criminal one.

The commission heard from more than 160 witnesses in hearings across regional areas including Lismore, Nowra, Broken Hill and Moree.

A further 35 people with lived experience of amphetamine-type stimulants gave evidence, mostly in private session.