The latest report from the Drug Foundation finds that Māori are more likely to face prison after a low level drug conviction. Between 2007 and 2017 there were 62,173 drug convictions and 61% of these were for personal use or possession of a drug utensil.
Nearly half of those convicted are under 30, 80% are male and 41% are Māori.
When we look at drug law, we need to know that justice is fair and even handed. Does it make sense to jail young people for personal drug use if addiction treatment might give us far better outcomes?
I have little sympathy for the dealers and the organised criminals, but punishing the end user with such uneven handed outcomes seems to only exacerbate the problems drugs create in our society rather than solve them.
While I continue to remain unconvinced that legalisation is the answer, I am committed to the approach our Government is taking. Treating personal drug users as a health issue and providing them with key support and addiction services is a far healthier outcome for all in our communities than just locking them up!
Willie Jackson is the Minister for Employment
The Maori people are the indigenous race of New Zealand. The Maori has cultural ties with the land. The Maori has traditions. The Maori peoples have their own language.
There is no place for indigenous peoples in the New World Order where all will be one.
Now that our Government has approved an open border system it’s my view that the Maori culture will with each generation fade into nothingness and just become part of a soup of nothing in particular.
Until that time comes, the Maori will continue to be thumped with fines, debt, prison sentences, mindless TV with plasma screen sets deliberately funded by WINZ, cheap junk food, homelessness and hopelessness. The drug trade is carefully controlled and in days of old it came under the umbrella of The Black Nobility. I think it still is.
Prisons and drugs are businesses which need clients. Maori are easy targets for both and as long as they take drugs and take up prison beds they’re money spinners for the powers that be.
I know TDB wont print this but it feels good now it’s off my shoulder!
“Now that our Government has approved an open border system it’s my view that the Maori culture will with each generation fade into nothingness and just become part of a soup of nothing in particular.”
That’s how societies evolve, demographics is destiny.
In less than 100 years, New Zealand will be oriental (East/South Asian). Think something like Singapore in the cities, with a few more white people and Maori in the provinces. Maori culture as it used to be will be a distant footnote, just as how Viking culture is now for example.
There’s nothing immoral about this process, it just reflects the fact that you can’t freeze any culture at one point in time.
I did leave a reply.
Prisons/drugs money spinners. Maori easy prey.
Social engineering by the Elite ?
When the law changes I’d like to see two things go along side it.
1) A on going campaign to explain why cannabis is bad for people with schizophrenia, and some instances of when people should avoid cannabis. ie: Don’t mix pot and booze – it makes you a bit of a dick.
That however would mean we have to invest in social services – somthing the last few governments have not been willing to do.
2) A heavy penalty (time in jail) for anyone supplying cannabis to a minor.
I’d personally like to see cannabis and alcohol use age raised to 25. This is when on average the brain is fully developed. But the Alcohol lobby would have a fit over that one. My guess, the alcohol lobby will be pushing hard to keep cannabis illegal.
Absolutely – competition is not what the booze barons want.
Very important points regarding suspect racial imbalances aside; the Only Effective Solution is to recognise that problem drug use is a medical issue, not a criminal one. End of.
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