Medicinal Cannabis Scheme ‘unworkable’ – industry
A Government scheme aimed at making medicinal cannabis more accessible to patients who need it for pain relief isn’t working, according to the medicinal cannabis industry.
Of course it’s not working! Chris Fowlie has laid out a devastating critique of the regulatory failures that have led us to this cluster fuck!
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.
…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.
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Just like reviews into poverty, fuel, electricity, supermarkets ect, all problems and loopholes the govt itself created. Naturally solutions to these problems cant be found because they dont want to fix them.
The got lauds itself as one of the least corrupt in the OECD but in reality they are neck deep in it.
Come to realise Labour is about as left wing as National is, they just talk a different language but in reality the working class is just as screwed under Labour as they are under National. Dont know why we even bother voting anymore.
100 percent Mark