Canada legalizes cannabis – where is New Zealand?
Remember when we led the world on progress?
First country where women could vote.
First country to say 40 hours a week was what workers should work.
First country to go nuclear free in the South Pacific.
One of the first to legalise gay marriage one of the first to have their unmarried Prime Minister bring their infant to the UN.
Yet when it comes to cannabis, where are we?
Canada has legalised recreational cannabis and have created a legalised market today – yet in NZ 50 die a year from synthetics and 6000 are still arrested each year for cannabis.
How have we gone backwards on cannabis?
How have we allowed the politics and the cops to fuck things up so badly that organised crime run the lethal synthetics and the cannabis market?
If cannabis was legal, we wouldn’t even have a bloody synthetics market! We are petty nation with petty people and gutless politicians.
I swear brothers and sisters, on the day prohibition is finally crushed and the cops and the spineless politicians defeated, we should gather around every major police station and spark up the minute after its legalised in memory of the hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders these politicians and cops have damaged and burnt and broken because of their bullshit cannabis laws.
On that moment let us remember the whanau who were needlessly punished and hurt so the cops and politicians could have power over us, let’s all smoke one in memory of their sacrifice and that the cops no longer can hurt us.
Before we can get to that blessed moment, we need to win the referendum and we need to win it by such a margin that not even the spineless MPs can hide behind prohibition any longer.
Martyn we haven’t gone backwards, we just haven’t moved forward which is probably worse. Those who advocate against its decriminalisation are the same dormant unintelligent right-wing brainwashed naysayers who advocated against homosexual law reform saying it would destroy the family unit and therefore society and that it would increase AIDS. Neither of those things occurred.
What will occur if cannabis is decriminalised is that hundreds of decent people will be saved from having a permanent blot placed against their names by the overzealous cops and their support network called the criminal justice system (the word justice in this context is a misnomer).
What will happens is we will be left with a whole bunch of empty prison beds and not enough snack food.
Synthetic cannabis has taken us backwards with drug dependency, misery and death.
Unbelievable the cost of puritanism and wowserism in NZ.
Me thinks their are too many in parliament with undisclosed conflicts of interest. How many MPs are pharmaceutical company investors? Even through “Blind” family trusts?
The real cannabis crime has always been the anticompetitive original prohibition. A whole lot of corporate vested interests mounted a fraudulent campaign of lies and deceit to have it banned. And they took out hemp as well. The bastards should be sued.
+100 MOSA re “Waiting until 2020 is an outrage and does nothing to enhance our reputation as a tolerant caring society”
….people are suffering needlessly with severe pain like fibromyalgia …and killed off with doctor prescribed opioids
https://articles.mercola.com/fibromyalgia.aspx
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/83570824/princes-death-drug-prescribed-to-new-zealands-elderly
Every disease can have a cure. Time to step away from Rockefeller’s poisons
https://www.mms-supplement.com/
Yes! Grow up New Zealand and get a life.
Surely if Canada can make it legal so can we.
Needless suffering so MP’s and fat cats can keep their fingers in the pie! Monsters.