Auckland mayoral contest: tough choice for progressive voters
As voting packs arrive in the mail, progressive voters in Auckland now face a tough choice in the contest for…
Chris Fowlie
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Should politicians be drug tested?
As long as workers are tested for drugs they may do in their own time, should politicians be tested too?…
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The Liberal Agenda: New Zealand’s 30th annual celebration of cannabis, J Day, will be held on Saturday 7 May, 2022.
“Aotearoa’s cannabis community has collectively been holding it’s breath, to see if their beloved celebration would be happening this year,”…
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New drug-driving law ignores science, targets poor
The effects of a new drug-driving law passed by Parliament yesterday, which ignores the science around testing for impairment, will…
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20 years ago I fought the Law – And I won!
Twenty years ago, as Parliament last investigated the legal status of cannabis, I was arrested and put on trial for…
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How to tip off Green Fairies against cop choppers
Police are resuming their futile aerial hunts for cannabis grows, according to reports, and NORML wants your help tracking what…
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Cannabis year in review: the referendum’s long shadow
For the second year of the zombie apocalypse, covid cast a long shadow over everything, the referendum left us in…
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Nonsense brewing over drug driving bill
A bill aiming to curb impaired driving has been derailed and will now criminalise thousands of non-impaired drivers, especially cannabis users.
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One year on from the cannabis referendum: The forgotten 48%
This weekend the Labour Party held their annual conference. It’s also one year since the announcement of the results of their cannabis referendum, in which a forgotten 48 per cent of voters supported full commercial legalisation.
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Does medical cannabis need a supermarket-style intervention?
The Government’s medical cannabis scheme is now in full effect, but strict rules have taken away products that are used by thousands of patients, letting billionaires corner the market and no obvious path for smaller growers. The solution may lie in applying the Commerce Commission’s thinking for supermarkets to the medicinal cannabis sector, with five small changes that could make a big difference.