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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 New Zealand Medicinal Marijuana: If it's effective Peter Dunne will back it 🌿New Zealand Medicinal Marijuana: If it's effective Peter Dunne will back it
New Zealanders increasingly favour legalising the medical use of marijuana, a ONE News Colmar Brunton poll shows.
Support has grown more than 10% since ONE News last tested the question 12 years ago but very few voters think it should be decriminalised completely.
Currently 48 New Zealanders are legally allowed to use Sativex which contains cannabis derivatives and the Associate Health Minister supports such products.
"If those products are shown as a result of the normal testing programme to be fit for purpose then we will permit them to be made available in New Zealand," Peter Dunne says.
A group called United in Compassion which wants more trials of medicinal marijuana has met with Mr Dunne to discuss the issue and the ONE News Colmar Brunton poll also backs them.
Nearly half (47%) say marijuana should be legal for medical cases while 21% say it should remain illegal. But just...
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