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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 New Zealand: Cannabis Party Rejects Government's New Drug Policy 🌿New Zealand: Cannabis Party Rejects Government's New Drug Policy
The New Zealand Government's new drug policy is out of step with international best practice and is not fit to be presented to the UN in 2016, the Cannabis Party says.
New Zealand's drug policy is a throw-back to racist 20th century hysteria that is completely at odds with the scientific evidence regarding drugs.
The policy deliberately ensures that the drugs which are legally accessible do the most harm to New Zealanders, while medicinally beneficial plants are banned.
The policy makes no distinction between low-risk substances like cannabis, high-risk hard drugs and alcohol.
It forces compulsory drug treatment on innocent cannabis and drug users, many of whom are likely to have no problems with addiction.
The policy fails to achieve its goal of harm minimisation because it continues to endorse prohibition, which is the leading cause of drug related harm.
The new policy fails to distinguish between social and commercial...
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