The NZ Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 (PSA2013) was never world leading drug reform as frequently claimed by some drug reformers and recently re-asserted in an article by one of the Act’s key flag bearers. It was however, world leading drug legislation, that succeeded in gaining almost unanimous support across New Zealand Parliament (apart from one MP), because this new drug law extended prohibition to include EVERY new psychoactive substance not currently incorporated within the Misuse of Drugs Act.

New Zealand has some of the highest cannabis consumption rates in the world yet the majority of people surveyed by Vote Compass say they don't want marijuana legalised.
 
They also want the drinking age pushed up to 20.
 
According to the United Nations, New Zealand has the eighth highest cannabis consumption level in the world after countries like Papua New Guinea, Zambia and Canada.

Vote Compass asked people whether they think "marijuana should be legalised".

Fifty-one percent of respondents disagree or strongly disagree it should be legalised, 33% said it should be, and 15% were neutral.

Danny Osborne, a lecturer in political psychology at Auckland University, says damage done by legal highs might help explain the results.

The police in Samoa have started the New Year with a drug raid on family land at Safaato'a village in which two suspects have been arrested, including a woman. However, one man had escaped at the time of the police raid on Friday afternoon. Police say fifty seven cannabis, or marijuana plants, from six to seven feet high, were found growing on the family land. Hundreds of dried leaves were also found along with live ammunition, and the police suspect guns were also part of the illegal drug operation. No street value of the found cannabis was given, but the police have thanked the people of Safaato'a village for their support and they urge other villages to follow suit in reporting illegal drugs.