Helen Kelly’s Battle for Medical Cannabis Has Exposed the Mess of New Zealand's Drug Policy

Helen Kelly, former president of the Council of Trade Unions, revealed last May that she was terminally ill with lung cancer (she has never smoked). In October, days before stepping down from her post, she went public with the fact that she was treating herself with cannabis oil.

"I was going on [TV current affairs show] The Nation anyway to talk about my health," Kelly explained to VICE. "And it was a really interesting drug that was making a big difference to my health. If I was going to get it illegally and it was all going to be fine for me, I thought, well there's other people it won't be fine for. You've got to put these things out in the open."

Kelly didn't stop at talking about it. A section of the Medicines Act 1981, allows doctors to apply to the responsible minister for permission to import and prescribe...

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