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.
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.
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.
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?
The simple truth is that there is no political courage to force the current war on drugs back on cannabis.
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).
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.
John Key is doing the rounds of media this morning stating that decriminalising cannabis would send the wrong message to teenagers.
Another pointless poll by the Drug Foundation who have managed sweet bugger all in 20 years.
Cannabis is always in the news and it seems like we’ve been talking about cannabis law reform forever – to the point where the most interesting thing about cannabis is why the law wasn’t changed years ago.