I wish Peter Dunne could have been so enlightened on cannabis when he made Helen Kelly a criminal in her final months of life

I wish Peter Dunne could have been so enlightened on cannabis when he made Helen Kelly a criminal in her final months of life…

Peter Dunne says ‘Class C’ drugs like cannabis should be made legal and regulated

For some time now, Dunne’s been talking up the merits of Portugal’s drug laws, where every drug is decriminalised – albeit with a caveat: If you’re caught with less than 10 days of any drug – cannabis, heroin, methamphetamine, or anything in between – you won’t be prosecuted. Instead, you’ll be fined or sent to treatment.

Rather than creating a free-for-all, Portugal saw its people’s drug use slump: in the 1990s, one in every 100 people in Portugal was addicted to heroin; since then, overall drug use has dropped 75 per cent.

Dunne wants to see that replicated in New Zealand.

“I think the full Portuguese solution, personally, might be the way for us to go long term. That might be where we head,” he says.

…Peter Dunne has desperately attempted to claim that this has been United’s position for 4 years and that  the idiot clowns at Stuff.co.nz thought they had an exclusive when none existed, and that’s true, the Fairfax journalist Lauren McQuillian should be feeling pretty embarrassed.

But while Dunne’s position has been the same for 4 years and while Fairfax can’t do anything right, the fact still remains that Dunne’s more vocal attitude now is still him playing politics with an issue that he has done sweet fuck all for over 9 years.

Dunne’s being more vocal because he faces a real challenge from Greg O’Connor who has also said he believes that Cannabis reform is necessary.

The simple truth is Dunne will say anything to try and stay in Parliament now, he refused to sign off on Helen Kelly’s application for cannabis and he made her a  criminal in  the final months of her life.

For all the talk he is a man of zero action who hasn’t done a damned thing to unwind the madness of our cannabis legislation.

He is irrelevant to the debate and voters should make him irrelevant in his electorate by voting him out. For those like the editor of the Dim Post, Danyl Mclauchlan  who cry they can’t support a cop and that somehow Peter Dunne is a civil liberties hero in comparison, I remind them how Dunne sold the entire country down the river with the mass surveillance laws despite the hypocritical prick having his own emails to Andrea Vance spied upon.

Dunne is no civil rights champion, he sold his vote to National to give them the support they needed to pass mass surveillance law that has empowered and enabled a deep state within NZ – the prick is a “willing buyer, willing seller” traitor.

All these politicians who suddenly care about cannabis reform do so because the polls show that the majority of NZers by a huge margin want reform.

We want reform NOW – not in 3 years. We are arresting 7000 NZers a year for cannabis, Peter Dunne is honestly saying to your face that we need to arrest 21 000 more NZers before we can reform our system.

That’s not a fucking solution people.