Election 2017 - Party Policies - Drugs - Cannabis
27th May 17, 9:54am
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Cannabis
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- Make cannabis legal for personal use, including possession and cultivation.
- Make it legal for New Zealanders who are suffering from terminal illness or any debilitating condition to use cannabis or cannabis products with the support of a registered medical practitioner.
- Assess evidence from overseas jurisdictions with legal cannabis markets to determine the best model for New Zealand.
- While waiting for broader law change for cannabis, remove penalties for any person with a terminal illness, chronic or debilitating condition to cultivate, possess or use cannabis and/or cannabis products for therapeutic purposes, with the support of a registered medical practitioner.
- Accelerate the process by which medical cannabis products are licensed for use.
- Read more here and here.
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- Obliterate all synthetic cannabis and other psychoactive substances from our communities.
- Read more here.
- Increasing penalties for manufacturing and distributing synthetic cannabis from a maximum of two years imprisonment to eight years, but no changes to charges for possession.
- Read more here.
- Attitudes which encourage rehabilitation rather than attack the abuse of drugs and alcohol.
- Read more here.
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