Sigh, the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind still want organised crime to run cannabis industry…
New poll shows big jump in support for cannabis reform, especially for medicinal use
KEY POINTS:support for personal possession 67%
support for pain relief 87%
support for terminal pain relief 89%
support for legalisation at 49%Public support for cannabis law reform has soared in the past year especially for medicinal use of cannabis, a poll commissioned by the New Zealand Drug Foundation has found.
Support for personal possession and growing has increased too but there is no great appetite to commercialise cannabis by selling it from stores.
Advocates of cannabis reform say the results show the laws are now out of touch with public opinion.
…this survey shows how deeply impacted most NZers still are by the failed Psychoactive Substances Act.
New Zealander’s are confusingly saying that they want to smoke cannabis, use it for medicine, but don’t want a regulated market that stops organised crime from dominating the industry and removes all the actual taxation revenue from Government coffers.
You look at how desperately NZ needs tax revenue and the half billion a legalised market could create annually in revenue and a drop in prohibition costs and the confusion is maddening.
What the stats do show however is that Labour’s gutlessness and cowardice on reform and their mangling of the legislation and referendum all into one event in 2019 so they aren’t seen culpable for the 2020 election is as stupid as it is visionless.
Currently there is bugger all time to do a referendum for 2019 and no one is clear what the question should be.
What we are likely to see is a highly sterilised version of these polled aspirations. The new Government will try and sell a pharmaceutical model rather than a craft industry. While the rest of the world leads with a legalised model that has regulated growers and sellers, NZ is likely to have a spineless pill popping model that decriminalises users of they are caught smoking the actual thing.
Currently we will end up with a model that enriches Big Pharma, robs the regions of real job making opportunities and still allows the cops to hassle people.
There needs to be leadership on this issue seeing as the Politicians are still too frightened to do so.
We need a fully taxed, fully regulated market that is heavily controlled by the state that stops international corporations taking over and that allows the individual to freely grow up to 5 plants of their own.
We need the Canadian model that allows for personal use blended with the California model that supports local growers, not the uptight puritanical version we are currently drifting towards.
Oh – and let’s just all pause for a smoke at 4.20pm today as a reminder to all those NZers who have been arrested, denigrated and damaged by the pigs for a product that the vast majority now want legalised.
Mate i appreciate your efforts, but maybe you should not of smoked so much before you tried to write a pot article that makes us all look STUPID, what we need here is a fully legalized industrial scale model, pot and hemp will replace plastic, which replaced paper and hemp for packaging purposes, eu is currently using hemp plastic to replace oil based plastic on all new car manufacture, its bio degradable, then theres a huge world wide medical industry which demands more and more raw martial, sure we few, we happy few hardcore smokers should no longer be persecuted for having been right all his time, but i can assure you organised gang culture has moved on from pot dealing and is actively engaged in P sales and manufacture. Of coerce its gonna take the coppers another 10 years to figure that out, after all we are just scum that they can rape and torture with impunity, why should the biggest gang miss out on all there fun and have to work for a living.
how much have you smoked ricky mate, wild dreams, reality beckons!
On ya bomber.
alot cuzz thats what makes me a expert, my dreams may be wild, but at lest i still have hope that we can pull ourselves up out of the swamp, we got a great little country here, id just like to see us all free and a global leader in fighting pollution and climate change, as it affects us all.
Theres really no need for this law, its a lie for a start, its only been used to keep the natives and hippys under control, and it was forced on us bye the most corrupt president in us history, Richard Nixon.
Study yer history and dont make the same mistakes over and over again i say.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/what-you-need-know-about-pot-legalization-1.4715920
I’m an old geezer – 79 – but I didn’t believe I would see the day when so many people would be advocates of a carcinogenic, mind-numbing, stupefying substance that plays havoc with mental health and physical function and is a major contributor to serious vehicle accidents. For the terminally ill? Fine if all else fails and the doctor prescribes it. For the pilots of your next flight?, the doctor for your next operation?, your counsellor for the next piece of guidance, the celebrant at your wedding? the driver of your bus? cannabis is not likely to be high on your list of requirements for these vitally important professional services
now that’s hilarious!!!
I think you have this discussion confused with one about alcohol… at least I hope you have…. Otherwise, this comment amounts to an emotional rant… my advice is to do some research that is more than just reading the latest National party leaflet, or other pressure groups who have a vested interest in either keeping cannabis illegal, or wish to delay the inevitable long enough to be in a position to capitalise on profits from cannabis/hemp commodity sales..
You really have no idea what you are talking about do you? It is thinking like this that is keeping us in the dark ages with regards to cannabis use.
What the stats do show however is that Labour’s gutlessness and cowardice on reform and their mangling of the legislation and referendum all into one event in 2019 so they aren’t seen culpable for the 2020 election is as stupid as it is visionless.
Isn’t that (more than) a little unfair? I gather that labour is beholden to New Zealand First on this particular issue. Unless you’d rather have had National rule for another term, I don’t see how Labour compromising on this one issue with NZF is “gutlessness and cowardice”. Maybe you know more?
I admit. It’s a funny thing. The ol’ policing thing.
I’m not a perfect fellow. I’ve been noticed by the cops for various things. All traffic related mind you. The thing about cops is that they are paid to enforce the law and to protect life. Sure, there are bad bastards and wankers in the police force but then bad bastards and wankers are everywhere. Just look at the banking and insurance industries? And if you don’t like cops? Go and live in a country without cops or with super crooked cops and see how that works out for ya?
Pot is illegal to grow and consume and the cops will bust your arse if they catch you growing and/or consuming it. That’s what cops do. What, about that, is a mystery? If you don’t want cops busting your arse for pot related indiscretions, change the bloody law and that’s not a cops job. That’s the job of our politicians who should be listening to us smokers and growers. But they don’t.
Why? Well, why peter dunne? Does anyone have a reason for peter dunne? I mean, seriously.. He’s the sperm that won? ( Not mine ) Think about that for a minute? Let it sink in. That fucking idiot laid down the pot law on us for fucking years. That poof haired, bow tie wearing natures mistake of a fellow was the person who could have fixed it all. But he didn’t.
Who’s the Labour Minister of Pot? A doddery hand wringer too? Get pissed though. Sure! You can buy booze at the super market while shopping with your kids of an afternoon then go home and get pissed and whack the shit out of those same kids while tanked. No worries.
The cops should be helping to change the pot law by being honest. If the cops were honest, they’d not be able to point the finger at pot in any way as being as dangerous and as anti social as booze. The difference is that booze, unlike pot, is sold to us by crusty old millionaires for millions and millions while tax paid for public health picks up the tab and the court systems have become a booze dependant industry.
And it’s about now that I’d like to mention Portugal. Anyone heard of Portugal? Portugal anyone? Know it? No, it’s not a town in the Catlins. Portugal is a clever collection of actual human beings. Not fucking idiots like us.
We’ve got to learn to say “ Do it now, or you’re in fucking trouble Mr/Mrs/Ms/LGBT Politician. Pull your lips of the arseholes of the millionaires and listen to us, The People.
Hardly surprising when No Zealanders want the Chinese dictatorship running the government
I’m not overly surprised by kiwis being skeptical regarding a regulated market…. We all know that it is only a matter of time before the combined weight of news media bullshit, and self interest of the incurably greedy will deliver yet another dose of tory sabotage on us.. And I shudder to think what a clusterfuck they will make of any structures put in place now… Whether it’s a return to the Frankenstein monster of laws they usually give us simply to pander to the ignorant among their wealthy/rural base, or setting up a monopoly that squeezes the smaller players out of the picture.. and has prices spiraling upwards toward, forcing a black market to re-develop, which will give them the green light to re-criminalise growing by individuals,.
With the tories, there really isn’t much else that will happen…. Wouldn’t it be nice if NZ could actually get on with growing into a mature society without having to waste years at a time fixing the tories sabotage regularly…..
“The new Government will try and sell a pharmaceutical model rather than a craft industry.”
This highlights how captured NZ has become by big-corporations.
The power of fake news, reefer madness, thoroughly discredited but still up for discussion. While the plastic choked planet burns on the poisons cannabis was a threat too.
damn straight Brucie you get it
Maybe people should start talking about the great experiences they have had smoking marijuana. I saw recently that the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra gave a performance in some sort of unusual venue where you could sit around having a drink of alcohol will listening to the music. I think alcohol is the opposite of a drug that helps you to enjoy music etc. It would have been much better if people could have sat around having a smoke and listening to the music.
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