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Posted by norml on Tuesday, May 27 2008 (444 reads)
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 Methcon's proposed solutions to meth are just a con, says Chris Fowlie, spokesperson for drug law reform group NORML.
"Former policeman Mike Sabin is keen to drum up business, but his ideas are just more of the same failed policies that have got us into the mess we're already in.
"Calling for more of the same is just nuts! We've tried punitive sanctions for eighty years but it has not worked.
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Posted by norml on Saturday, December 01 2007 (1059 reads)
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NORML NEWS SUMMER 2008
The Misuse of Drugs Act is to be reviewed by the Law
Commission. It is the first time in over thirty years that the Act will be reviewed in its entirety, and the person in charge is former Bill of Rights Act champion Sir Geoffrey Palmer, writes WILL DE CLEENE.
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Posted by norml on Friday, November 30 2007 (1135 reads)
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NORML NEWS SUMMER 2008. BY HARRY CORDING (Additional reporting by Chris Fowlie)
The government wants to introduce a new offense of driving under the influence of illegal
drugs. Is it necessary - or reefer madness in a fluoro vest? Does the government need
something else to arrest us for? And with cannabis the most popular illegal drug, the question
arises: is stoned driving dangerous?
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Posted by norml on Thursday, November 29 2007 (1222 reads)
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NORML NEWS SUMMER 2008. BY CHRIS FOWLIE
Customs have finally succeeded in having an issue of Cannabis Culture magazine banned. The May/June 2007 issue, imported from Canada and distributed by The Hempstore, was sent to the Office
of Film and Literature Classification. In a decision released in late October, the Office ruled the issue “objectionable”, meaning it cannot be sold or read in New Zealand.
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Posted by norml on Thursday, November 29 2007 (994 reads)
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NORML NEWS SUMMER 2008. BY CHRIS FOWLIE
NORML told Parliament’s Justice and
Electoral Reform Committee the Electoral
Finance Bill is “anti-democratic, draconian
and corrupt” and strongly recommended the
Bill be withdrawn.
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Posted by norml on Thursday, November 29 2007 (525 reads)
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NORML NEWS SUMMER 2008. BY CHRIS FOWLIE
The Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Bill
is a significant erosion of civil liberties
and will almost certainly see the innocent
punished.
It proposes to seize people’s assets even though they have not been convicted of any crime. It
violates fundamental norms of justice,
such as the presumption of innocence and
the prohibition on double jeopardy, and
could also breach the New Zealand Bill of
Rights Act.
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Posted by norml on Monday, November 05 2007 (1273 reads)
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British cannabis use has declined sharply in the three years following the government’s decision to make possession a non-arrestable offence, according to the latest figures from the UK Home Office’s annual Crime Survey.
"With cannabis in the headlines here again, it's important to acknowledge that moving away from prohibition is not associated with an increase in use," said NORML's spokesperson Chris Fowlie.
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Posted by norml on Friday, November 02 2007 (1316 reads)
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Public support remains strong for moving away from destructive policies that criminalise cannabis users, says the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).
Spokesperson Chris Fowlie said a poll released by the New Zealand Drug Foundation asked the wrong question, and could not be compared to earlier polls, as the DominionPost had erroneously done today.
"The latest poll asked whether cannabis laws should be made 'tougher' or 'more liberal', but previous polls had asked whether people wanted continued prohibition, decriminalisation or legalisation. If you change the question, of course you will change the result. That's a no-brainer," said Mr Fowlie.
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Posted by norml on Thursday, November 01 2007 (1232 reads)
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Advocates of evidence-based cannabis laws today commended the New Zealand Drug Foundation's efforts in kick-starting a rational conversation about cannabis, but said they risked falling into the same trap they sought to avoid.
Chris Fowlie, spokesperson for the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), said he was pleased to be invited to present ideas for effective cannabis laws in the latest issue of the Drug Foundation newsletter.
"Whatever your take on the health effects of cannabis – and we all have our opinions – it is clear that prohibition has not worked, and a drugs policy re-think is in order," said Mr Fowlie in a guest column written for Matters of Substance.
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Posted by norml on Tuesday, October 02 2007 (1621 reads)
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Although scientific research indicates that cannabis actually has far less impact on the psychomotor skills needed for driving than alcohol does, and is seldom a causal factor in car crashes, the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) supports safe driving behaviour and promotes a set of "Principles for Responsible Cannabis Use", which includes "no driving".
However, NORML has some serious concerns regarding drug testing drivers.
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Posted by norml on Sunday, September 30 2007 (1213 reads)
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Public submissions are now being invited on the Misuse of Drugs (Classification of BZP) Amendment Bill.
This bill seeks to make it illegal to possess and use, sell, supply, import, export or manufacture benzylpiperazine (BZP), phenylpiperazine, and related substances.
Make your views known! Do you think, given the failure of current drug laws, that banning another substance will work? Will it lead to more people using P or drinking alcohol? Do you think other options would be more effective? (eg, enforce the R18 age limit; mandatory warning labels; controls on dosage, pack sizes and ingredients; controls on when and where it can be sold; etc)
The closing date for submissions is Friday, 12 October 2007.
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Posted by norml on Tuesday, September 11 2007 (1336 reads)
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Our widely-ignored cannabis laws and the failed experiment with alcohol prohibition show it will be impossible to ban BZP without causing even more harm.
"The law banning cannabis is routinely flouted and results in the criminalisation of tens of thousands of Kiwis every year," said Chris Fowlie, spokesperson for the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML NZ).
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Posted by norml on Thursday, September 06 2007 (1269 reads)
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To the Justice and Electoral Select Committee
Submission on the Electoral Finance Bill
6 September 2007
This submission is from the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML New Zealand Inc)
We wish to appear before the committee to speak on our submission.
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Posted by norml on Thursday, July 26 2007 (1784 reads)
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ANDERTON PUSHES FOR PARTY PILL BAN
NORML News, Winter 2007. By Will de Cleene
The possession, sale, distribution and
supply of party pills will be as illegal
as cannabis by the end of this year. So said
Associate Minister of Health Jim Anderton on
June 28, when he announced plans to reclassify
benzylpiperazine as a Class C1 drug.
But the news may not be all bad. After thirty
years of failure, the Misuse of Drugs Act could
be in for a complete re-write.
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Posted by norml on Thursday, July 26 2007 (1737 reads)
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NORML News, Winter 2007.
By Metiria Turei, Green MP.
Compassion for ill New Zealanders is a core
New Zealand value. Many campaigns
for legislative or policy change have been
about supporting and protecting the ill. My
campaign enabling doctors to prescribe
medicinal cannabis to patients supports
thousands of ill New Zealanders who may
benefit from this option, relieving the pain of
(for just a few examples) nail-patella syndrome,
muscle spasms, phantom limb pain, chronic
pain, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia and the
wasting syndrome from HIV/AIDS.
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Posted by norml on Thursday, July 26 2007 (1416 reads)
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NORML News Winter 2007. By Jonathan Rennie.
A Waikato great-grandmother
was surprised when police
arrived in force on her property
earlier this year, hyped-up to take
down a supposed drug kingpin.
They must have been disappointed
to bag only twelve small plants,
but incredibly, decided to proceed
with supply charges anyway.
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Posted by norml on Tuesday, July 24 2007 (1940 reads)
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NORML News, Winter 2007. By Chris Fowlie.
Parliament is set to consider
a new Government bill to
create an offence of driving
under the influence of illegal
drugs, which would have the
same penalties as drink driving.
It is now an offence to drive
while “incapacitated” by
drugs.
Police are already using
field impairment tests - such
as walking a straight line or
balancing on one leg - although
driver’s consent is voluntary.
The new bill is understood to
make the field tests compulsory
if police believed a driver is
impaired.
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Posted by norml on Tuesday, July 24 2007 (1692 reads)
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NORML News, Winter 2007
The Police Act is under review. We have made do with the
current one for over 50 years and
surprisingly it doesn’t say what
police should actually do - just that
they should exist.
Submissions on what you would
like a new Police Act to look like
can be made at www.policeact.govt.nz.
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Posted by norml on Monday, July 23 2007 (1622 reads)
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LEGAL NEWS - Norml News Winter 2007 - By Rob Weir LLB.
IT has been clear Crown policy for a number of years to recover property from those convicted of drug supply charges. The legislation used is the Proceeds of Crime Act 1991 (“the PCA”).
The PCA comes under the Court’s civil jurisdiction but exists contemporaneously with the criminal Court where property is suspected to have been
derived from “serious criminal
offending.” A “serious offence”
is classified as one punishable by
5 years or more imprisonment.
In practice however it primarily
affects those charged with drug
related offences.
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Posted by norml on Tuesday, May 08 2007 (1599 reads)
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braindead writes:
"By Paul Armentano, AlterNet.
Since 1972, U.S. taxpayers have spent well over $20 billion enforcing criminal marijuana laws and 16.5 million people have been arrested. It's time to put an end to this waste."
Note: Paul Armentano is the senior policy analyst for NORML and the NORML Foundation in Washington, D.C.
This article originally appeared at http://www.alternet.org/rights/49597/
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| April 11, 2006 | | · | National Drug Policy review - have your say (2) |
| December 06, 2005 | | · | Doctor wants ban on herbal party pills (3) |
| October 03, 2005 | | · | NZ Drug Foundation: Muddled thinking behind drug policy criticism (2) |
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| September 05, 2005 | | · | Recorded cannabis offences down 19%; NZ still Number One pot-arresting country (3) |
| July 19, 2005 | | · | Nats and United Future against cannabis law change (2) |
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| June 21, 2005 | | · | Criminal Proceeds Bill draconian and dangerous (4) |
| June 06, 2005 | | · | Drug Tourists Go Dutch (3) |
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| May 23, 2005 | | · | Misuse of Drugs Amendment makes it easier to ban substances than to downgrade (4) |
| April 21, 2005 | | · | Dutch towns want to legalise cannabis production (4) |
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| December 05, 2004 | | · | Dope grower owns up for wife's sake (0) |
| October 26, 2004 | | · | New evidence-based drug education initiative for schools (11) |
| September 14, 2004 | | · | New Misuse of Drugs Act Ammendment Bill (10) |
| August 26, 2004 | | · | Cannabis crime down again (5) |
| July 29, 2004 | | · | 100,000 cannabis offences recorded under current Labour Government (2) |
| July 01, 2004 | | · | Cannabis Culture magazine given R18 rating (3) |
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| · | INTERNATIONAL NEWS (1) |
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| May 11, 2004 | | · | Criminal Records Bill Passed (7) |
| May 10, 2004 | | · | Driver Drug-Testing trial begins (10) |
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