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Cannabis InquiryThis page collects news stories about the Health Select Committee Inquiry into the legal status of cannabis. Also see full coverage on the main Inquiry page. You may also be interested in our old Inquiry Activist Guide which covered making a submission to the Inquiry.
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Posted by drstuey on Thursday, October 30 2003 (2810 reads)
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Posted by norml on Tuesday, September 30 2003 (3560 reads)
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 This is the first of our Action Alerts following the release of the Health Select Committee report on cannabis. Recent events make it essential for all NORML branches, supporters and activists to ACT NOW on the opportunity provided by the report. This Action Alert is focussed on lobbying MPs as their support is critical to getting the key recommendations of the report implemented, such as allowing medical marijuana, and having another inquiry by the Justice and Electoral Committee.
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Posted by drstuey on Tuesday, August 12 2003 (3607 reads)
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 The Health Select Committee Inquiry was supposed to investigate "the most appropriate legal status" for cannabis. However the committee were unable to agree, so the report made no recommendation on this.
So take our new poll and tell us what you think "the most appropriate legal status" is for cannabis.
The majority of the submissions to the inquiry said that there should be law reform. To see how many people backed each of the options see the NORML analysis document: key findings and extracts from the report.
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Posted by drstuey on Friday, August 08 2003 (3166 reads)
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Posted by norml on Friday, August 01 2003 (3277 reads)
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NORML News Winter 2003
The cannabis inquiry report sets out the case for change, even if it has avoided resolving the issue. Despite the delays and diversions, there is much to indicate reform is still on the agenda, writes CHRIS FOWLIE.
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Posted by norml on Friday, August 01 2003 (4189 reads)
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BY PHIL SAXBY
NORML News Winter 2003
Women voted in favour by 21 to 12. Men voted against it by 47 to 38. Georgina Beyer, MP for Waiarapa and the only person claiming first hand experience of the industry, gave an emotional speech in favour. The outcome (if you have not guessed) was that the New Zealand Parliament passed by one vote (60-59) the Prostitution Reform Bill in June this year.
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Posted by norml on Friday, August 01 2003 (2971 reads)
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 By Phil Saxby.
NORML News Winter 2003
Three years after the Health Select Committee was asked to deal with the legal status of cannabis, it still could not agree on what to say and decided the issue should be sent to another committee.
Yet, despite its failure on the key issue, the committee did make some progress on legal status. Its report recommended to the Government that it "pursue the possibility of supporting the prescription of clinically-tested cannabis products for medicinal purposes."
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Posted by norml on Friday, August 01 2003 (2957 reads)
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THE HEALTH COMMITTEE HAS FINALLY RELEASED ITS REPORT INTO THE LEGAL STATUS OF CANNABIS, AND WHILE IT DOES NOT BACK PROHIBITION, AND DOES SUPPORT MEDICINAL CANNABIS, THE MAIN RECOMMENDATION IS FOR YET ANOTHER INQUIRY. IT WOULD BE REASONABLE TO ASK THAT AFTER THREE YEARS, 2500 SUBMISSIONS, AND MORE THAN EIGHTY THOUSAND ARRESTS,
IS THIS ALL WE GET?
BY CHRIS FOWLIE
NORML News Winter 2003
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Posted by drstuey on Friday, July 25 2003 (2632 reads)
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The long-awaited final draft of the Health Select committee Cannabis Inquiry report is finished and is expected to be signed off next week.
Submissions closed in February 2001, Oral hearings were over by November 2001, but it has taken until now to finish a report.
The committee is understood to be unlikely to make any recommendations for or against decriminalising cannabis for recreational use, although it is expected to reccommend the medicinal use of cannabis.
Another couple of minor steps forward are that it is also expected to recommend increased use of diversions for first time offenders and that there should be another study on the legal status by the Justice and Electoral Select Committee, which Nandor is a member of.
 25/07/03 Medicinal Cannabis Step Closer
 NORML Cannabis Inquiry Page
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, April 01 2003 (2662 reads)
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Health committee finally meets; draft report is discussed
An evidence-based report must support cannabis law reform.
Proposed Smokefree law would ban coffeeshops, most preferred model.
By Chris Fowlie
NORML News Autumn 2003
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Posted by drstuey on Thursday, November 14 2002 (2717 reads)
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New Zealand Herald, Thu, 14 Nov 2002
A parliamentary committee's workload means its inquiry into the health effects of cannabis will not be completed until next year, says committee chairwoman Steve Chadwick.
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Posted by admin on Monday, September 30 2002 (2449 reads)
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While we all wait for the Health Select Committee to produce their report on the Cannabis Inquiry, the big question now is who gets to filter all the information and write the report? Well Green Party researcher and NORML activist Rosalie Steward has prepared an analysis of the submissions which uses Consensus decisionmaking to bring
"movement" to the issue. About 85% of the 562 submissions favour law reform, with over half backing Dutch-style cannabis cafes.
 30/09/02 Report on submissions to the Health Select Committee Cannabis Inquiry
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Posted by drstuey on Friday, June 14 2002 (2819 reads)
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New Zealand Herald, Fri, 14 Jun 2002
By MARTIN JOHNSTON, health reporter
Divided MPs inquiring into legalising cannabis failed to deliver a report before the election was called on Tuesday.
This has created uncertainty about whether Parliament's health select committee will complete the report, and has prompted a claim that opponents of legalisation have tried to quell debate.
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, November 07 2001 (2706 reads)
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Wellington, November 7 2001
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Posted by admin on Thursday, November 01 2001 (4553 reads)
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An overview from NORML News
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, October 17 2001 (3978 reads)
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Christchurch, October 17 2001
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Posted by admin on Thursday, September 20 2001 (2777 reads)
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Posted by admin on Friday, September 14 2001 (2750 reads)
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Hamilton, September 14 2001
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, August 15 2001 (2744 reads)
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Auckland, August 15 2001
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, July 18 2001 (2658 reads)
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Wellington, July 18 2001
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