Queensland's new conservative party will investigate a website set up in its name that discusses legalising marijuana as possible policy.
The website, liberalnationalparty.org, claims it is the Liberal National Party of Queensland's discussion forum, and has a photo of leader Lawrence Springborg and deputy leader Mark McArdle, taken on the day the party was formed.
Topics up for discussion include Invasion Myths - on the subject of whether Japan planned to invade Australia in 1942.
In an area headed LNP Policies, there is a discussion about legalising marijuana, in which website administrator and creator Wayne Smith writes: "All drugs should be legalised in my opinion.
"Drug use should be treated in the same way as alcohol and nicoteine (sic) which are both deadly drugs sold on shopping shelves and taxed to the hilt by every government," he writes.
Records show Mr Smith, of Dalby in southern Queensland, registered the domain name on July 30.
His recorded telephone number is not connected.
Mr Springborg only learned of the website today, and said he would alert party organisation.
"The worldwide web is an interesting beast and it provides great opportunity for information dissemination but also information distortion," Mr Springborg told reporters in Brisbane.
Mr Springborg said he was concerned by its official look and name, and its discussion on topics such as legalising marijuana.
"That is policy nonsense to suggest we'd be going there," he said.
"In actual fact, that is the antithesis of what we believe in when it comes to the issue of addressing the scourge of drugs."
Mr Smith is being sought for comment.
