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New Zealand Medicinal Cannabis Loophole Shut down by Government

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 12/14/2016 - 08:42

Closing a loophole allowing travellers to bring in prescribed medicinal cannabis into New Zealand from the United States is "barbaric" and "mean spirited", campaigners say.

Information on New Zealand Customs and The Ministry of Health website this week said  cannabis-based products from the US could not be carried into New Zealand. Customs staff were taking that stance from Wednesday.

Golden Bay woman Rebecca Reider, who this year successfully bought in a month's supply of US prescribed cannabis products for pain relief, said the Government's decision was a "barbaric and deliberate attempt to stop sick people in pain from getting their medicine."

It would affect her in a "very real way".

"My dad is coming to visit me soon and could have brought my next supply of medicine, because he is classed as one of my caregivers. But now the Ministry of Health is actively taking people's access to health away."

Environmental activist Rebecca Reider with some of the medicinal cannabis she successfully brought into New Zealand....
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