Election 2017 - Party Policies - Drugs
26th Jun 17, 3:49pm
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- Evidence-based and age-appropriate drug education in schools; and non-judgemental evidence-based information available through health services and point of sale.
- Implement recommendations of the Law Commission on the review of the Misuse of Drugs Act.
- Re-evaluate the relative harms and appropriate legal and regulatory status of psychoactive substances.
- Support policies to minimise harm caused by drug use – for example needle exchange schemes.
- Sufficient resources for rehabilitation services and other programmes that provide help rather than punishment for people with drug problems.
- Read more here and here.
- Comprehensively respond to the Law Commission’s report Controlling and Regulating Drugs – A Review of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, and replace the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975.
- Read more here.
- Review the effectiveness of support services, education strategies, rehabilitation and communication strategies related to methamphetamine.
- Develop a national strategy that is whānau-centred and community-led to get beneath the drivers of P and address the wider determinants of health disparities.
- Increase the resources appropriated for P prevention, rehabilitation and education; and increase the numbers of respite care beds for P addicts in kaupapa-led A and D facilities.
- Invest in whānau-focused alcohol and drug addiction, recovery and restoration programmes and services including in prisons.
- Remove criminal penalties for the possession and personal use of certain illicit drugs.
- Read more here and here.
- Invest $82 million over four years to tackle methamphetamine with a range of tough measures to clamp down hard on organised crime and drug dealers.
- $40 million over four years on drug treatment and education services including: 1500 additional in patient drug treatment places, and community based treatment, prevention and education services provided by NGOs and Iwi.
- Doubling the number of drug dog teams and introducing them in domestic airports, ferries and mail centres to clamp down on trafficking.
- Imposing new obligations on gang members on a benefit so that if they can’t justify expensive assets, they can have their benefit cancelled or be declined a benefit.
- 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.
- Reintroduce the chargeable offence of being intoxicated and disorderly in public, to include intoxication from the use of drugs whether legal or illicit.
- Improve residential services for people who have severe illnesses or disabilities and/or substance abuse problems.
- Read more here and here.
- Introduce a health-first approach for low-level possession. Introducing new sentencing guidelines, which would allow courts to implement assessment and rehabilitation for people caught with a small level of Class C drugs (no more than a weeks supply for an individual).
- Retain penalties for the sale, supply and cultivation of drugs listed under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975.
- Provide a large boost to our treatment and assessment services for rehabilitation. Further expand the resourcing for healthcare and treatment to ensure that front-line drug support services continue to provide the quality help and support that people need to improve their futures.
- Remove current Class C drugs from under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 and place them under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2013. This will allow suppliers to submit drugs for testing to ensure safety.
- No criminal organisation will be ever meet that standard or be granted such a licence, which would completely exclude gangs from this market. Instead, we would have a regulated market for all drugs, synthetic or otherwise, that the Psychoactive Substances Authority considers pose a low risk to users.
- Read more here.
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