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Posted by norml on Monday, September 06 2010 (44 reads)
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 A new law proposed by Peter Dunne and the National Government will outlaw importing or selling pipes and pipe parts, effectively cutting off the supply of harm reduction equipment for cannabis users.
The Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill 2010 preempts the Law Commission’s review of the law, just as the commissioners have proposed reducing or eliminating penalties for drug use.
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Posted by norml on Sunday, August 15 2010 (147 reads)
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Cannabis law reform magazine Norml News, which both Police and Internal Affairs recently tried to ban, has just released its Winter/Spring 2010 issue, including revelations about how and why the magazine nearly got permanently suppressed.
“Immediately prior to the Operation Lime raids in April, police went to the Dept of Internal Affairs and discussed the magazine,” Editor Chris Fowlie said today. “Soon after, Internal Affairs requested a ban on Norml News, but that request was refused and we’re still here.”
Documents uncovered by NORML under the Official Information Act reveal that Internal Affairs officers fronted a covert police initiative to get Norml News banned entirely. The Chief Censor’s office didn't go that far, but did decide to classify three previous issues of the magazine as R18 publications. NORML plans to appeal the decision.
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Posted by norml on Monday, August 09 2010 (139 reads)
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Press Release: Dakta Green
Stage three of the cannabis Armistice Tour kicks off on Wednesday, August 11 and will cover the entire country before a hikoi to Parliament on Armistice Day, November 11.
Dakta Green, founder of Auckland's cannabis club The Daktory, will be driving Maryjane the Cannabus, along with an entourage of support vehicles in a three month tour commencing at 11:00 am with a ceremony beneath the lighthouse at Cape Reinga on Wednesday.
"We will visit every electorate Member of Parliament office in the country and talk with MP's about the harms that criminalisation causes for ordinary New Zealanders," said Dakta Green.
"We are also going to talk with as many New Zealanders as possible and ask them for their views on cannabis and the law."
The Armistice Tour will conclude at Parliament at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month following a march to Parliament.
continues at http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1008/S00118/cannabis-armistice-tour-kicks-off.htm
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Posted by norml on Thursday, July 15 2010 (255 reads)
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NORML President Phil Saxby has warned that arming all frontline police could spell more drug related violence and propel New Zealand further and deeper into the "war on drugs".
"I am very concerned by the level of ‘fighting talk’ displayed by the Police at this moment and do not want to see armed officers going into every house they come across that smells of cannabis."
"The Police Association has already warned that this move would actually mean more people getting shot."
Continues at www.scoop.co.nz
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Posted by NORML on Thursday, June 17 2010 (566 reads)
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THREE ISSUES OF NORML NEWS HAVE BEEN CLASSIFIED R18. THIS APPLIES TO THOSE THREE ISSUES ONLY - WINTER 2009, SPRING 2009, SUMMER 2010 - PICTURED AT LEFT. IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A COPY, IT MUST BE KEPT AWAY FROM ANYONE AGED UNDER 18. THE DECISION CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE.
Note: A recall has not been ordered. Existing magazines that readers have do not have to be labeled, and are not classified as 'objectionable'.
Three past issues of Norml News were referred to the Censorship Office on 3 May after massive raids on indoor gardening stores across the country, code named Operation Lime. Police charged several stores with selling 'objectionable material', even though Norml News had not been - and is still not - classified as 'objectionable'. It seemed to us that Police were trying to make their charges stick by going after the magazine.
Police denied any involvement but now a request by NORML under the Official Information Act has revealed they had a secret meeting with Internal Affairs departmental heads and asked them to try to get marijuana law reform magazine completely banned.
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Posted by norml on Monday, June 14 2010 (367 reads)
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 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION’S STANCE ON CANNABIS WELCOME, SAYS NORML.
Phil Saxby, President of NORML NZ, today welcomed the New Zealand Medical Association’s stance on cannabis for medicinal use and called upon the Government to adopt the same sensible position.
"The NZMA has said that it supports a Law Commission proposal which allows patients to use cannabis under medical supervision. NORML has supported medicinal use for a long time," he said.
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Posted by norml on Monday, May 24 2010 (472 reads)
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"The Government has to start getting real on the issue of cannabis prohibition because the current law only encourages young teenager's use of the drug," said the NORML's Auckland spokesperson Stephen McIntyre.
Mr McIntyre was referring to new data indicating a link between adolescent cannabis use and lower academic qualifications.
"These findings support NORML's call for a legally regulated and controlled cannabis market in New Zealand, similar to the Dutch model," he said.
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Posted by norml on Thursday, May 13 2010 (495 reads)
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John Key's latest promise of a reduction in 'P' by next year is just more smoke and mirrors from a Government that would rather amp up the 'War on Drugs' than take a considered look at sensible alternatives, says NORML New Zealand president Phil Saxby.
"The best way to reduce demand for 'P' is to ensure people have safe, legal access to cannabis," Mr Saxby said.
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Posted by norml on Tuesday, May 11 2010 (1120 reads)
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In another sign authorities here are ramping up the drug war, New
Zealand's most popular marijuana magazine NORML News has been sent to
the censors.
"This seems to be more fallout from Operation Lime, the massive raids on
gardening stores earlier this month," said NORML News editor Chris Fowlie.
"Now the secretary of Internal Affairs has referred the past three
issues of our magazine, which promotes law reform and civil rights, to
the censors."
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Posted by norml on Tuesday, May 04 2010 (653 reads)
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This opinion piece by NORML spokesperson Stephen McIntyre was published in The Press on 4 May 2010. You can comment here or here, or send your letters to letters@press.co.nz.
Operation Lime - the nationwide police swoop on hydroponic-growing
supply shops - was a big step backwards in drug reform and, given the
timing of the raids, there is concern over the level of political
motivation behind them.
Police say they spent two years in undercover work amassing evidence,
but it is curious how they decided to bust 35 stores in the same week as
J-Day, which is the local cannabis culture's biggest and most highly
visible day of the year.
The raids also happened during the final week in which the general
public got to make submissions for the Law Commission's Misuse of Drugs
Act report. By a further quirk of apparent synchronicity, they also
happened in the week in which the Law Commission's report suggesting a
major tightening up of alcohol regulation was tabled in Parliament.
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Posted by DrPhil on Sunday, February 21 2010 (1155 reads)
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NORML President Phil Saxby has applauded the Auckland Mayoral Forum’s decision not to go ahead with the government’s proposed Party Central venue, arguing that instead of promoting alcohol at “Party Central”, the government should listen to Auckland's many cannabis-smoking rugby fans.
Mr Saxby has written to the Cabinet arguing that cannabis should be regulated in time for the Rugby World Cup in order to decrease alcohol violence during World Cup parties.
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Posted by norml on Sunday, February 14 2010 (1432 reads)
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 The Law Commission review has not lived up to its promise, despite some good recommendations. Approval of medicinal cannabis is very welcome, and would bring us into line with many other countries and 14 of the United States of America. But the really big problem is prohibition, and the Law Commission has not done what it said it would do – start from first principles. It says we should keep using the same old, unjust, controls that don’t work. A regulated, taxable cannabis market is needed to replace the evils of the uncontrolled, criminal market in cannabis and other drugs. So: what can we do about it?
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Posted by norml on Saturday, February 13 2010 (894 reads)
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Press release from Dakta Green
"Nobody in New Zealand should be ever punished by their boss simply for smoking cannabis on their own time", said Dakta Green today. "So long as no-one is being hurt and no disturbance caused, what goes on outside of the job is no matter of the company or the employer".
Mr Green was referring to the current investigation by TVNZ into claims that its staff smoked cannabis during a visit to Waitangi on the CannaBus with Dakta Green and members of NORML and The Daktory.
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Posted by norml on Friday, February 12 2010 (3703 reads)
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 NORML presents J Day, an annual international day of protest against cannabis prohibition and celebration of our cannabis culture, happening in over 200 cities around the world!
In New Zealand J Day is happening in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, February 10 2010 (934 reads)
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The Law Commission review has not lived up to its promise, despite some
good recommendations, says NZ’s oldest cannabis law reform group, NORML.
“The recommendation on medicinal cannabis is welcome, and would bring us
into line with many other countries and 14 of the United States of
America,” says President Phil Saxby. “The big problem is prohibition,
and the Law Commission has not done what it said it would do – start
from first principles. Instead of proposing regulation and controls that
work, it says we should keep using the same old controls that don’t
work. A regulated, taxable cannabis market is needed to replace the
evils of the uncontrolled, criminal market in cannabis and other drugs.”
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Posted by norml on Monday, February 01 2010 (967 reads)
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An Auckland District Court Judge has acknowledged that cannabis law
reformers have "powerful ammunition" in their campaign to end cannabis
prohibition in New Zealand.
"NORML believes the continued persecution of cannabis users in New
Zealand is in breach of the Bill of Rights Act", said NORML NZ President
Phil Saxby today, "which is why Dakta Green, one of our Executive Board
members, made application for a stay of proceedings on Bill of Rights
issues".
Despite denying the application, Judge Anne Kiernan last week described
evidence presented to the court by Dakta Green as "powerful ammunition"
for persuading parliament to reform laws relating to cannabis.
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Posted by norml on Tuesday, October 27 2009 (3544 reads)
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A new testing regime takes effect from 1st November 2009 that will let police officers test drivers for impairment caused by illegal drugs.
Police will first perform a standard breath test, and if the driver passes that but appears impaired, the officer can then require the driver to perform a Field Sobriety Test (standing on one leg, etc). If the officer then believes the driver has failed that test, they can compel a blood test. Any traces of cannabis residue, which for regular users can permanently stay in the blood, will be enough for conviction, whether or not it is enough for impairment.
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Posted by norml on Monday, July 06 2009 (1987 reads)
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Current drug laws achieve what the alchemists from the Middle Ages couldn’t manage: turning low cost plant material into something much more valuable, writes Brandon Hutchison.
Early December last year, the NZ Police announced that they had saved the country an estimated $336 million in “socio-economic harm” as a result of their anti-cannabis campaign for the previous year when they had seized, among other things, 128,000 cannabis plants. Detective Sergeant McGill said that this money saved the taxpayer from “drug-related expenses” that would have been spent on drug related crime and health expenses (ref: Stuff website). These figures were calculated using the NZ Drug Harm Index (DHI).
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Posted by norml on Monday, July 06 2009 (1999 reads)
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Considering the huge cost of enforcement and the obvious social cost of prosecuting and imprisoning offenders, it is hard to fathom why a cost-benefit analysis of the prohibition has never been done, writes Brandon Hutchison.
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Posted by norml on Monday, July 06 2009 (2182 reads)
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At last, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 is being independently reviewed, by the New Zealand Law Commission. The latest word is that the Law Commission’s planned discussion paper will be released near the end of 2009. Drug law reform is long overdue, but at least NORML can make use of the extra time to prepare for the coming public debate.
Dozens of government-appointed commissions have already examined the effects of marijuana, and made policy recommendations regarding its use. Overwhelmingly, the conclusions of these expert panels have been the same: marijuana prohibition causes more harm than marijuana use, and the possession of marijuana for personal use should not be a criminal offense.
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