Waitakere Licensing Trust could regulate cannabis like alcohol
New Zealand’s Liquor Licensing Trusts are a hangover from the days of prohibition and the temperance movement but provide a possible template for cannabis law reform.
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Why saliva testing for road side impairment tests will be madness
No one wants people who are impaired to drive a car. That’s fine, that’s a public safety issue, no one would be crazy enough to want people who are dangerous on the roads being on the roads.
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Three and a half years jail for growing cannabis
While there is much to celebrate about those who manage to leave the country and fly back in with prescription cannabis, this loop hole is open to those who can afford it and it ignores the continued criminalisation of those involved in growing it and those who can’t travel.
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Radical Stoners attack NZ Police station and National Party MPs Office
The fury of cannabis smokers who continue to be hunted down by the NZ Police has finally erupted with a new radical pressure group attacking and graffiting Nikki Kaye’s Office and the Ponsonby Police Station.
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We don’t want to send the wrong message – John Key
what message was Parliament (ie; National) sending to our children in March 2009, when it abandoned the campaign to implement healthy food options in our schools?
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Kevin Hague + Greg O’Connor + Helen Kelly = Cannabis Legalisation
The simple truth is that there is no political courage to force the current war on drugs back on cannabis.
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High Time: Why the Greens must rejoin the fight for cannabis law reform
in spite of the public’s readiness for radical reform, the leadership of the two big political parties have either refused to embrace the necessity for change (National) or taken refuge behind the poll results by issuing a cautious endorsement of medicinal cannabis use, while remaining opposed to any broader decriminalisation measures (Labour).
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Evidence that Key’s claim Police don’t harass Cannabis smokers is nonsense
The great lie spun by most of our gutless politicians is that the Police don’t harass cannabis smokers, that they only focus on the dealers.
This is horse shit.
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Cough-cough – Impertinent question time – Does Key’s fear that decriminalising cannabis sending the wrong message to teenagers extend to his own children?
John Key is doing the rounds of media this morning stating that decriminalising cannabis would send the wrong message to teenagers.
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New Cannabis Poll in favour of decriminalising means nothing
Another pointless poll by the Drug Foundation who have managed sweet bugger all in 20 years.