New Zealand: Time to Regulate the Cannabis Industry
Currently, the New Zealand cannabis industry is worth millions of dollars per year and is totally unregulated due to the legal status of cannabis. This has led to all sale and distribution being controlled by career criminals who have no ethics when it comes to selling this product to children or trying to push harder damaging drugs to their customers.
It is also causing many ill people in this country to suffer unnecessarily.
Our government bought into the "war on drugs", started in the US.
There are 2 main areas of regulation to be considered, in relation to cannabis, which are medicinal and recreational.
Medicinal Cannabis
The use of cannabis for purposes of healing predates recorded history. The earliest written reference is found in the 15th century BC Chinese Pharmacopeia, the Rh-Ya.
In more recent history William Turner, the naturalist considered the first English botanist, praised it in his New Herbal,...
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