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NORML Press ReleasesThis page collects Norml New Zealand's Media Releases from 2004 to 1997.
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Posted by norml on Monday, August 09 2010 (115 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 (230 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 (542 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 (337 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 (455 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 (462 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 (1088 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 DrPhil on Tuesday, March 09 2010 (717 reads)
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NORML President Phil Saxby today called on Police Minister Judith Collins to restore public respect for law enforcement by calling an armistice in this country's prolonged "war on drugs".
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Posted by DrPhil on Sunday, March 07 2010 (669 reads)
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The ten-year ban handed down to veteran rugby league player Vince Whare makes him another casualty of injustice in our 35 year-old war on drugs, said NORML President Phil Saxby today.
The Canterbury Bulls’ prop has just been suspended from any involvement in sport for a decade by the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand after testing positive for cannabis use. He tested positive for cannabis twice before, once in 2005 and then again in 2006.
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Posted by DrPhil on Sunday, February 21 2010 (1130 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 (1411 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 (878 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 Wednesday, February 10 2010 (917 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 (941 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 Friday, October 30 2009 (546 reads)
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Submission on “Alcohol in Our Lives”, the July 2009 issues paper of the Law Commission regarding reform of New Zealand’s Liquor Laws
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Posted by norml on Monday, August 03 2009 (1811 reads)
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Theme: Thirty Years Too Long: Stop the NZ Drug Wars!
Please book yourselves in for the NORML Annual Conference and AGM in Turangi this year. This is the time and place where members, budding activists and seasoned old hands get together to discuss cannabis law reform strategies, share information, elect the board, and generally plan out the year ahead.
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Posted by norml on Friday, June 26 2009 (2030 reads)
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Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei's private member's Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis) Amendment Bill will be put to a first vote on Member's Day this Wednesday 1st July 2009.
This is the first time that a bill aimed at rolling back some of the harsher provisions of our War on Drugs has ever been put to a vote in the New Zealand Parliament. This is well behind many other developed and affluent nations who have already put forth medical cannabis laws. And yet all previous amendments to the Misuse of
Drugs Act have been aimed at making sanctions tougher and even more inhumane.
NORML calls upon all Members of Parliament to put aside politics, show compassion and support this Bill for its First Reading. Let the issue go to select committee so it can be debated and the people of New Zealand can have their say.
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Posted by norml on Wednesday, April 29 2009 (2456 reads)
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NORML welcomes the Health Select Committee's acknowledgement that
cannabis is a legitimate and effective medicine, and supports their
recommendation that the Government makes access to the natural cannabis
extract Sativex easier, and "continue to make pharmaceutically-based THC
derivative medicines available to treat serious medical conditions when
traditional methods have failed."
The committee recommended Sativex be put into the Medicines Act so that
GP's can prescribe it without needing an additional specialist or
needing to apply for the Minister of Health for special permission.
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Posted by norml on Thursday, March 12 2009 (2032 reads)
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New Zealand should refuse to endorse the Political Declaration prepared
by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, says NORML President Phil Saxby.
NORML has written to Peter Dunne, New Zealand's representative at the UN
Vienna meeting on drug policy, pointing out that harm reduction is a key
part of New Zealand policy but all reference to it has been deleted from
the Political Declaration prepared by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
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Posted by norml on Monday, March 09 2009 (2244 reads)
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NORML responds to the government media release that Associate Minister of
Health Peter Dunne will represent New Zealand this week at the Vienna meeting
of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
“The Drug Warriors going to Vienna are like World War One generals, who claimed
victory over gains of a few hundred yards without counting the horrendous cost
in blood and treasure”, says NORML President Phil Saxby.
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