Helicopter cannabis raid for 3 plants highlights all that is wrong with Labour’s cannabis laws
Police fly helicopter over couple’s home to spray three cannabis plants
A Coromandel couple were having dinner when police flew a helicopter over their property to spray three cannabis plants.
It comes as several police districts resume aerial search operations, a year after top brass scrapped the annual eradication operation at a national level.
The couple, who Stuff has agreed not to name, were having dinner about 6pm on Wednesday when they spotted a helicopter they had noticed flying down a nearby valley coming towards their home.
“It got closer and closer and then just zoomed in on this little hill about 80 metres from our house and sprayed three small cannabis plants that were in pots up on the hills,” the man said.
“We could see the pilot, he could see us, we waved to them, and he was just sitting there above the hills spraying the plants and then just buggered off.”
The man underwent an operation to remove cancer a few months ago. Following the operation, he was given tramadol and codeine, but did not like the drugs and stopped using them after he got home. He purchased some cannabidiol oil for about $150 a bottle and found it worked better for him.
3 Plants?
That’s what this expensive prohibition bullshit was targeting?
3 plants for a cancer survivor?
That’s what you are all willing to see your taxpayer dollars spent on?
Helicopter fly by’s?
For 3 plants?
Why is it that after almost 50% of this country voted for a legal market in cannabis that things have actually gone backwards under Labour?
The bullshit police intimidation is the same and the medicinal cannabis industry is even worse! Labour have capitulated to the pharmaceutical industry interests and have set up the medicinal cannabis market in the exact same way the Supermarket duopoly has been set yup, not for the consumers but for the rich prick interests.
Sure there is pill testing for the children of the middle classes with names like Apple and Bruschetta, and yay Apple and Bruschetta get to party safely at their expensive Eco summer festivals, but working class stoners keep getting fucked by this Government.
It is outrageous that after nearly 50% of the country called for Cannabis to be legal that the cops and their Government handlers are still persecuting stoners.
This is money that could be spent on actual criminals, like Meth dealers.
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Another lie coming to light and showing the large divide between the promises made and the end results of this Labour government
We should be marching for cannabis … f$%k the conservative nancys. It’s not 1948!
Why don’t the NZ Police concentrate on the big fish ie Gangs and Organised Crime easier to chase non compliant WOF’s and Registrations and small time cannabis growers meanwhile the Gangs and White Collar Criminals have a Field Day exempt from Police or Government Surveillance. Big Fish too difficult for the Police and this Government, Crime Pays especially the big stuff hence the growth of the Gangs in NZ over the past 30-40 years.
We need a Government with some Balls to address the Gangs and Organised Crime, the Gangs have infiltrated all sectors of NZ Society and are making life a misery for many. In NZ we idolise Gangsters and White Collar Criminals IMHO.
90% of medicine was plant based in the 1920’s until the US Pharmaceutical Industry got many products outlawed, now synthetic materials are produced and regulated by the Authorities. This behaviour by the NZ Police is bordering on mindless and shows how immature we are as a Country ?
Most mature countries world wide have legalised cannabis, meanwhile the Gangs in NZ run rampant dealing Methamphetamine like it is Lollies ?
Clearly the message is ‘don’t park your dope where they can be seen from the air’. Or work on breeding varieties that don’t look like dope without careful examination.
Another thought: given the draconian laws about flying toy drones, you’d think there would be severe restrictions on flying full sized helicopters at low levels and spraying weed killer indiscriminately without permission. If the stash was near a vineyard it could cause huge reactions.
Grant Robbo and his Merry Men – a main man being Little Andrew are doing a fine job spreading confusion and toxic chemicals in the countryside. Maid Marion tries to get them organised but they won’t come down from the trees.
Need to legalize all drugs then you eliminate the Cash Flow for the Gangs and White Collar Criminals, can then slash the NZ Police Force in 1/2, illicit drugs benefit no one except the Gangs and Organized Crime.
I think at this point, it would be better to abolish Prohibition.