EXCLUSIVE: Teachers Council drags Cannabis Activist before kangaroo court

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Martyn Bradbury
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Why must this woman be punished? 

Cannabis Activist Jeanette Saxby is facing the exact persecution the gutless and spineless new Government promised wouldn’t happen. As Helen Kelly died, Labour and the Greens both pledged that those with terminal illness wouldn’t face prosecution from accessing cannabis, yet their flakey go nowhere legislation can’t gain traction and it left a loop hole to be exploited by the Police and organisations like the Education council.

Jeanette was a relieving teacher in 2011 and that was the last time she had been a teacher.

In 2015 she was caught with cannabis and again in 2017. Both times it was for patients suffering chronic pain.

This is the threat the Education Council sent her of her ‘crimes’…

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Jeanette is a cannabis activist who has fought for law change to ensure the terminally ill can gain access to medicinal cannabis. She has been punished for her ‘crimes’ to help others and she has not been a teacher since 2011 and has had her registration lapse, so why the christ the Education Council of NZ are pursuing her and wanting to punish her 7 years after she stopped being  teacher is a question only the persecutors at the Education Council can answer.

A mediocre journalist began this action when she incorrectly wrote Jeanette was a teacher who sold pot to a student when the charge was only ever for possession. No apology has been made from this mediocre journalist. Jeanette  has had to live with this slur and it’s caused a domino effect leading to this pointless persecution by the Education Council.

This gutless and spineless Government promised this type of persecution would end, but it hasn’t.

Jeanette is a hero, this is just spitefulness on behalf of a kangaroo court who want to make some pointless statement.

Helen Kelly would be disgusted with Labour and the Greens right now.

 

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28 COMMENTS

  1. Here here Martyn.

    So true that is, so why did Labour do a u-turn on jacinda’s showing strong support during her election speeches??

    Is it becuse the Labour policy has changed after they revived the National Party model of relying on “advisors????

      • Ah Ha !
        A kindred spirit @ J S Bark ! In a trench? When all are dead but me and thee? I’ve got your back son.

    • Ahhh so it’s Nationals fault! seems Cleangreen you have that ‘it’s Nationals fault’ go to excuse no matter what criticism falls upon the new Govt and basically anything they don’t do as promised, it’s because of National somehow. OK at least I can understand any posts you give from now on will always have ‘it’s nationals fault’ as a by line, I look forward to reading your disappointed posts of the govt’s flip flops or mistakes going forward and how you can weave National as the excuse into it with wonder and awe, pinch of salt and bewilderment 🙂

  2. Gutless and spineless is correct when public opinion is way ahead of our “progressive” gov’t that runs the 51st US state.

    The education and health bureaucracies are totally subservient to the 1% who put profit before people and use prohibition to harass, lock up and kill innocent citizens who ignore their self serving laws.

    Proves that Labour is hostage to the US imposed war on drugs even while US law reforms are proving that cannabis does not cause harm in a NON-PROHIBITION context, and the best science has shown the assumption of harm is total bullshit.

    While the MOH still persists in claiming that cannabis causes 32 deaths per year based on bullshit science all governments will submit to the softcops who tell us they always know better now to live our lives.

    We don’t have time to fuck with these moralizing bureaucrats when the vast majority wants access to cannabis for health and recreation.

    If you want the right to health and life in the fucked up system you have to take it not beg sold out politicians for it.

  3. I don’t see how the Greens can be blamed since they are the only party pushing for legalisation of marijuana and they aren’t actually part of the government and have no power to do anything until Labour starts taking legalisation seriously, at which point the Greens will support them.

    • “they aren’t actually part of the government and have no power to do anything”
      except vote for the Waka Jumping bill, vote against the Kermadek sanctuary, vote in agreement against cameras on fishing boats agree to expansion of the Chinese bottling water company…yes it seems The greens have no power at all eh? only the power to leave their ethics and principals and what they were most against (in opposition) when they get a wee taste of power!?

  4. This is a shocker – but it’s not clear that the govt is to blame for it.

    The Education Council should be answerable to someone for this repugnant bullying, inexcusable to someone who they note is working with a psychologist re addiction, and with whom they no longer have any working connection.

    Even if it were written by one of the many failed law students who clog Wgtn govt depts, it has a creepy personal tenor, and it should be referred to the State Services Commission or other appropriate body – I’d go straight to the Minister and get a ministerial reply from the CAC.

  5. With every day of inept government (such as on this issue) that goes by, I get more and more convinced that “Labour” has not sorted itself out since its gutting after giving birth to neo-liberalism.

    This is no way to respond to the growing shadow of a National Party return to government in 2020.

  6. Great article. For me this is the govt of “broken promises” so this comes as no surprise. I doubt they will be back after 2020 which is cold comfort but at least hopefully they will get the message they need to clean up their act.

  7. Agree Jeanette is a hero

    …it is the medical profession and BIG PHARMA who should be on trial….for making people suffer needlessly and in some cases die prematurely …by denying the legal use of a plant grown naturally on Mother Earth which has been used for thousands of years as a natural medicine

    pain and suffering is big money and the medical profession and BIG PHARMA want cannabis outlawed from home grown and free use because their of their own personal greed….they would prefer to use manufactured opioids which are causing an epidemic of addiction and death

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/83570824/princes-death-drug-prescribed-to-new-zealands-elderly

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/25/americas-opioid-crisis-how-prescription-drugs-sparked-a-national-trauma

    https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/billionaire-charged-bribing-doctors-prescribe-opioids-n814686

    ( this is a scandal)

  8. With everything going on and the teacher shortages, odd that they are pursuing this when she is not even teaching!

  9. Hi RB, a good, grim, informative movie is Oxyana.
    Looking at ‘hillbilly heroin’, oxycontin or Percocet.
    The devastating effects of addiction in a small town.

  10. It is pathetic. Look at National suddenly coming up with ‘a well thought out bill’ makes me puke they did nothing about this when in power wankers!

  12. Who would have thought that when Anarchists like myself, and others said that labour was a right wing party, and their policy was also right wing, especially their economic policy – people shut us down.

    All the left liberals called myself and others splitters, and national supporters. Now we have a labour party in power, who are are acting just like a Tory party. This legislation and this behaviour just goes to prove it.

    We got a whole lot of Tory wolves in sheep’s clothing.

    • The question you were and are asking is “are Labour perfect?”. Obviously the answer to that question is “hell no!”. But some of us, even being anarchists, aren’t content to watch the world burn, in the hopes this will bring about a revolution and magically make everything better. The question we were and are asking is “will a Labour-led government be better or worse for the most vulnerable people in Aotearoa than a National-led one?” The answer to that question is clearly yes. Evidence:
      – we are getting a binding referendum on legalizing cannabis for recreational use. We thought the closest we would get to that was a non-binding referendum which we’d have to spend a year collecting signatures to get.
      – suspending and canceling of benefits can no longer be done by computers, can now only happen after a review by a senior member of WINZ staff. Everyone on a benefit is now significantly more secure in their income.
      – significant increases in government funding for public interest media production. A more informed public is such a threat to the establishment they concocted a fake scandal around Clare Curran in an attempt to derail her public broadcasting reform plans.

      These are just three examples, if you do the research, and suspend your confirmation bias, you will see there are many more. Yes, these are small steps, but they are more than nothing, and they are in the right direction. If we want more from this government, we must demand it, by articulating specific policy changes, and getting out in the streets to campaign for them. If we do that, I believe we will achieve much more significant change, and certainly more than we ever could have under a government led by Bill English.

  13. As a person for whom open, easy access to cannabis would be THE ANSWER to the constant pain that I experience (part of the clinical picture of Multiple Sclerosis), IMO, every politician in this country is astonishingly ignorant about the benefits & lack of harm to the human body of cannabis. Every politician is also fearfully ARROGANT in that each of them believes themselves to know better than all the citizens of this country as to what is “good” for we citizens.

    I urged my MP to watch the docuseries: “The Sacred Plant” & also urged him to recommend the docuseries to all his parliamentary colleagues. There has been a 2nd series: “The Sacred Plant: Healing Secrets Examined” about which I also advised my MP.

    I doubt that the MP viewed any episode of those 2 docuseries. Certainly, I had no acknowledgement from him about the subject.

    As a NZ Registered Nurse (retd.), I know “too much” about pharma drugs – every one of them being a toxic, poisonous chemical which CURES NOTHING: they all only SUPPRESS SYMPTOMS! That is why so many people, especially the elderly, live with polypharmacy – because allopathic doctors give another drug & another drug & another drug for the barrage of “side effects” people suffer from every drug they are prescribed. Even antibiotics DO NOT CURE! “Anti” = against; “bio” – LIFE! Our “good” needed “bugs” are destroyed by antibiotics as well as the “bad” “bugs” It can take months for our microbiome to recover from the destructive effects of pharma drugs. I eschew drug-taking. I take nutrients which support the body & facilitate healing to a degree impossible for drugs to effect.

  14. I look forward to the Free speech Coalition raising $90,000 to defend Ms Saxby’s human rights. Holding my breath, holding my breath, holding-

  15. This is what the Teacher’s Council is focused on??? These people have waaaay too much time on their hands. Have they learned nothing from the persecution of homosexuals pre-1986? Parliament had to apologise for that persecution. Parliament will eventually have to apologise to the people persecuted under these unjust, stupid laws.

  16. It looks like TTPA and we have signed ourselves into a position between a rock and a hard place. And all those Big Pharma carpet baggers are hammering at the door of marketing regime change and kangaroo courts

  17. Yes, the Education Council witch hunt against Jeanette is ludicrous, and made more so by responding to her satirical comments about being “addicted to cannabis law reform” as if she was serious. But let’s keep in mind that the Teacher’s Council is a professional body, not part of the public service, or the government. As a professional body, it’s probably run by the most bloody-minded vogons in the entire NZ teaching profession, and that’s certainly the tone of the excerpts Bomber published above.

    I suggest sending the Education Council a strongly worded email in support of Jeanette. Their contact details can be found here:
    https://educationcouncil.org.nz/contact

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