New Zealand: Parliament's appetite for cannabis decriminalisation limited
ANALYSIS: A quick check of political attitudes indicates Parliament is unlikely to change the laws on recreational cannabis use any time soon.
This is despite a wave of international reports saying that trying to suppress the drug trade by force does not work.
The argument was kicked off by the former presidents of five countries calling for a halt to the war on drugs.
They included the former leader of Mexico, a country which has been torn apart by drug gangs. The former leaders said suppressing the drug trade was handing big money over to organised crime.
Agreeing with them down the line were academics from America's Ivy League Johns Hopkins University and a British medical journal, the Lancet.
They said prohibition was doing nothing to actually stop drug taking.
But most government ministers in this country have shown no interest in adopting this line and liberalising the laws on cannabis.
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