Labour have screwed up medicinal cannabis market so badly they are throwing $13million at it & hope you are too dumb to notice

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Dr Buzzkill Andrew Little at 4.20pm

Medicinal cannabis company gets $13m from Govt to develop blueprint for industry

A medicinal cannabis company in Marlborough has received one of the largest grants ever provided to primary industry, which will see it develop a growing handbook for other medicinal cannabis companies.

Primary Industries Minister Damien O’Connor visited Puro at their site in Kēkerengū, on the South Marlborough coast, on Friday to announce the $13 million grant.

It represents a Government and industry partnership that will see New Zealand patients being able to access local and organically grown cannabis medicines manufactured in New Zealand.

So what you are saying is that Labour have fucked up the medicinal cannabis market so badly that they have to spend $13million in public funds to help others get through the mine field of regulations only billionaires can afford – thanks Labour!

This is a joke…

Cannabis: Auckland grandma becomes first to legally use dried cannabis flower to relief her pain

Sourced from Australia, the flower has less than 10 per cent THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) – which is the main psychoactive compound in cannabis – and was high in CBD (cannabidiol) which helped treat pain and lower anxiety.

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And it won’t be cheap, $220-$250 for ten grams around double what you’d pay on the black market. But he says “at least you know what’s in it”.

 

…the reality is this…

Most medicinal cannabis users buy on the black market – report

Only 6 per cent of people who use cannabis medicinally are getting it legally, according to a Drug Foundation report.

This leaves about 250, 000 people who source medicinal cannabis on the black market.

…right after the referendum which showed almost a majority demanding cannabis law reform, Little killed off any cannabis reform and landed us instead with bullshit medicinal cannabis rules that only serve a billionaire while crushing the local medicinal cannabis industry.

Patients seeking medicinal cannabis now ARE WORSE OFF after Labour than before it!

Minister Little has the audacity to blame the industry which either suggests Andrew is either lying or grossly misinformed!

I am free anytime to explain to the Minister why he is wrong.

Labour have inadvertently set the medicinal cannabis industry up the way they have set the super market duopoly up. Labour have allowed the big pharma segment of the NZ market to write rules that exclude the smaller players which has led directly to the impasse we have now.

A framework that only the big pharma segment can pass through while fucking over medicinal cannabis patients as well as the wider industry.

Labour deserve nothing but contempt for their medicinal cannabis failure and if the Greens had any strategic brain they would make a legal market part of their agreement to form a government in 2023.

After 5 years in power and what did labour get us? $50 joints and another $13million spent on pretending the market is working.

 

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23 COMMENTS

  1. Yup, that’s Labour for you…just like handing over $350 million to Maori Health Groups to get more Maori vaxxed…did not work at all…despite being told this would happen, because many Maori avoid those Maori Health Groups due to previous poor experiences with them.

    • part of the slow uptake was their religious leaders lying to them, and of course the ‘bubble effect’ asian kiwis didn’t suffer from ‘pakeha’ indifference did they, they were at the top end of vax uptake.

    • Nathan Kerr since when were you an expert on Maori health nah! you are more likely to be an expert on the business round table and a cousin of wayne kerr .

  2. Labour have inadvertently set the medicinal cannabis industry up the way they have set the super market duopoly up??? Inadvertently? Your kidding right? There was nothing inadvertent about it.

  3. “…. ARE WORSE OFF after Labour than before it!”

    When are you going to accept that this is a recurring theme under this Labour Government?

  4. Doh!
    Why don’t they throw Andrew Little at the Wall of Shame as punishment. No-one will notice any difference and he will just get up and walk away as Labour have perfected this art of dainty dancing with everything. It’s the in-side of politics today.

    Labour or their minions seem to be setting it up as a major business with large injections of money, but perhaps promising good returns to them as the alcohol business now does. This is while alcohol is enabled to degrade society by impoverishing further by its siren call of good times, big talk, and febrile community, taking down people already impoverished. Its ubiquity extended to 24 hours availability once didn’t it. We are lambs to the slaughter with this money-mad and new-fad mad politico blot on what was once our landscape.

  5. Look. Surely, we must by now realise that we’re being governed by crooks lining the pockets of other crooks with public money. Surely?
    “At least you’ll know what’s in it? ” That’s so pathetic it’s not even funny. It’s not sad either. It’s something else that I can’t quite put my finger on.
    I know! It’s American! It’s American-speak. It’s dumb, it’s weird and it’s a logical fallacy. I’ve just described the U$A.
    But then, wait a minute…? The USA is legalising Pot at a Federal level. Oh fuck! That makes we AO/NZ’ers even dumber than the dumb U$A’ers.
    Forbes:
    “The U.S. House of Representatives passed the MORE Act, a bill that would end the federal prohibition on cannabis by removing it from the list of banned controlled substances. This is the second time the bill passed the House; however, it will face strong headwinds in the Senate. ”
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2022/04/01/us-house-of-representatives-pass-federal-cannabis-legalization-bill-more-act/?sh=4bdf90c866d7
    ” It will face strong head winds in the senate.”
    Then don’t stand behind jenny pelosi bending over.
    All recreational drugs must be decriminalised and half the prescription drugs should be banned.

  6. They should just decriminalise cannabis up to an ounce for personal use and make medicinal options meet minimum standards by copying one of the better state structures in the US and then just get out of the way.

    • But how could they profit from it and how would that provide big 6 figure paid jobs for them? Asking for Mr. Little.
      Labour, can’t wont’ and will not do a single thing that makes life better for everyone. 2023 – vote anyone bot Labour/Green.

    • personally yeti I’d like to see a state monopoly and an export industry of clean green NZ weed, which people tell me is top quality, at least the nation as a whole would benefit and the income could ameliorate the inevitable bad health outcomes…ring fence the profits from domestic and export sales for the health service

      ………and then the laudanum wore off and I woke up.

  7. Its such a shame Labour have made a shambles of everything. They have made it inevitable that the elitists will win for the next 20 years. What a wasted opportunity. What a shameless Nat cuckoo Jacinda turned out to be.

  8. The cops call them sophisticated growing environments but in reality its just a kit you buy from your local hydroponics store, has all the basics you need, just add pots, soil and nutrients and anybody can have a crack at doing it themselves. Get one of those LED systems and you’re using alot less power.
    I suggest everybody give it a crack, the medicinal cannabis scheme was meant to provide protection for the green fairy network that had been established and instead the govt handed it to a bunch of corporations who never lifted a finger to get it there.
    Stick your middle finger at them and do it yourself, its quite possible to do it and nobody would be the wiser, just keep your head down, easy as.
    Im done voting, this was the decider, the lack of empathy by Labour says it all, the supposed working mans party just walked over the working man in favour of the rich man. Same goes with all those other reviews they have done and sat on, they’re no better than National now.
    Turning my back on all of them, just not worth my time.

  9. All those years ago Dunne told me I wasnt allowed raw leaf cannabis (was way before any medicines) because there was no dosage control and it would be smoked but here we go with an australian product that is a ‘tea’ that people are going to either smoke or vape but it seems thats ok because its coming from a pharma company and it has a label on it saying what dosage to take……..
    Would be great if the police would stop with the choppers, they said they would and this year they were back at it destroying what they could find. Labour would have funded that too…..
    We have been conned, literally.

  10. A Russell Brand must-watch. Not what you might assume. Essential viewing alert! Neoliberalism unpacked. Fucking brilliant stuff.
    “Will Smith has resigned from the Academy after slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars – but why are people still talking about it and what is this latest culture war distracting us from?”
    https://youtu.be/l8gauWZpIsQ

  11. People are too worn down to care what govt is up to. Govt does not represent voters wishes any more. Personally I vote with my pocket. Buying ethically/locally as possible or go without. Free range chicken for the cats. I don’t want to unwittingly l feed the cats soylent green. Investments I don’t do anymore. Kiwi saver stopped and what’s in there is set to the most Conservative. Its just not worth the blood money

  12. There is nothing inadvertent here its all very deliberate to appease their partner only ie it looks like a duck but dont quack! very good article but the whole corruption goes way deeper ….. ie ihemp has been around talked about since 1988 and authorized trials commenced in 2001 all good until they gave it “inadvertently” to MEDICINES CONTROl who set about disabling it very successfully, in 2008 and the whole mess just got worse n worse. Im surprised participants did not hear our angst and saw the red flags ie this is exactly as you will be treated.
    A Magnificent FARCE! mack

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