Items tagged with new zealand
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| Chloe Swarbrick's medicinal cannabis bill fails at first reading [31.01.2018] | Green MP Chloe Swarbrick's medicinal cannabis bill has failed at its first reading. The bill lost 47 votes to 73, with both every National and NZ Fir ... |
| Government's cannabis plans include legal defence for terminal patients who use [20.12.2017] | The Government will not be legalising the medicinal use of cannabis in New Zealand, but it will allow terminal patients caught growing cannabis to us ... |
| Another country is getting ready to vote on legalizing cannabis [20.10.2017] | The newly-elected prime minister of New Zealand has said she wants a national discussion on legalizing cannabis. Jacinda Ardern said that she will wo ... |
| Wide support for decriminalisation of cannabis for personal use, poll suggests [15.08.2016] | A new poll by the New Zealand Drug Foundation shows almost 65 per cent of New Zealanders want personal possession of cannabis decriminalised or made ... |
| How legalizing marijuana might stave off 'Spice' epidemics [04.08.2016] | K2 overdoses in Brooklyn sent 33 people to hospital. The rise of K2 could be fueled by a twist on the "gateway drug" theory: it’s not marijuana use, ... |
| Government could make $150 million annually from taxing cannabis [20.07.2016] | Decriminalising cannabis would generate money for the Government and ease pressure on New Zealand's courts according to an informal Treasury report. ... |
| New Zealand's 'cannabis crisis': smokers confirm chronic shortage [17.03.2016] | New Zealand suffers from a chronic shortage of marijuana. The “catastrophic” situation was first reported on by Don Rowe, a staff writer at The Spino ... |
| How dangerous synthetic cannabis became Britain's most popular new legal high [31.05.2014] | The influx of legal, synthetic forms of cannabis that can be more potent and dangerous than the natural, illegal drug exposes Britain's "utterly ridi ... |
| New Zealand’s bold experiment with regulating recreational drugs [07.10.2013] | One country is trying a new approach. For the first time in history, New Zealand has created a regulatory body to oversee recreational drugs. Passed ... |
| New Zealand’s psychoactive substances legislation [31.08.2013] | On 11 July 2013, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Psychoactive Substances Act. The legislation enacted a new legal framework for the testing, ma ... |
| Legal highs flooding UK pose immense overdose risk, warns drugs tsar [15.05.2013] | The chief drugs adviser to the government has given his strongest warning yet on legal highs in Britain, saying there are now more than 200 synthetic ... |
| U.N. development chief flags failings of "war on drugs" [14.03.2013] | There is increasing evidence that the war on drugs has failed, with criminalization often creating more problems than it solves, said Helen Clark, th ... |
| Kiwis on drugs: a blueprint for the future? [27.02.2013] | This week New Zealand publishes its Psychoactive Substances Bill, legislation which some believe will transform the international debate on drugs pol ... |
| Towards a Safer Drug Policy [14.01.2013] | For forty years the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 has formed the corner stone of drug policy in Britain. The emergence of new psychoactive substances (‘le ... |
| 'Revolutionary' legal high law means state regulated drug market [27.07.2012] | Kronic-style drugs are expected back on the shelves under the new legal high law being crafted by Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne. Experts say t ... |
| Controlling and Regulating Drugs [03.05.2011] | The New Zealand Law Commission was asked to address the efficacy of the Misuse of Drugs Act in reducing the demand for, and supply of, drugs prohibit ... |
| Drug Law Reform: Lessons from the New Zealand Experience [19.08.2010] | In 2007, the Government of New Zealand entrusted an independent agency, the National Law Commission, to review the country’s drug law. The Commission ... |
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