"I have a personal view, as do many colleagues about wider liberalisation of broader cannabis use, and that issue is about the risk of access to younger people and the public…

Govt to change policy on medicinal cannabis

The Government will announce tomorrow that it is removing a significant hurdle to getting access to medicinal cannabis in New Zealand.

It is understood doctors will be given the right to approve patients' requests for cannabis products, rather than Government ministers.

Good on you Craig. No doubt you will have observed the number of articles published here…

I try and be nice to everyone!

But let’s try this: in the past five or six years, Police have been using their discretion to decline to bring a criminal prosecution against a growing number…

I bet to them, "defacto decriminalisation" is as meaningless as it is to me.

So I'm happy enough with the phrase "de facto decriminalisation".

That is nice, be…

Nearly half of all people apprehended and processed for drug offences in Northland last year weren't charged with a criminal offence, and nearly all of them of them received pre-charge warnings. The warning doesn't constitute a criminal record and isn't viewable by employers etc.…

I found myself disagreeing with you, but then your patronising tone really won me over.

Sweet Jesus! “Dealers” with its gang implications is such an emotive word and not one I’d ever use myself. By the time you reach my age, you might be lucky to find yourself a minor member of a buyers’ club which…

It is not any sort of decriminalisation.

Alfie should post the phone numbers of his dealers.

But of course he should not. Cannabis is very much illegal…

Cue visiting tobacco company suit claiming they are just another FMCG wholesaler. #pffft

That's a very interesting point.

Not really, the Police strategy to control Meth is to crack down on Cannabis users and this seems to be working well for them, as there's now more Meth being used in the south than ever before.

Meth-Heads are crazy Mother-Fers and in a defacto way,…

1. Teenage use of marijuana in Colorado has dropped;

2. On BBC radio last night a reporter visited some of the growers and retailers of legal cannabis in Washington state. Because selling cannabis is illegal under federal…

Ah, good.

I'm thinking about leaving Western Springs after the 1988 Pink Floyd show, when the mellow mood was abruptly shattered by the sight of an effective holding pen of mostly brown male middle-aged arrestees.…

I am so in disagreement with this.

People are still getting busted. Ask them if it is "de facto decriminalised". Use a phone for personal safety.…

That's really quite astonishing.

Big decrease in cannabis crime…