New Scientist: Cannabis Kamatua Needed.

Cannabis Kamatua Needed

Wed May 20 23:22:10 BST 2009 by Blair Anderson

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The endless charade maintaining cannabis prohibition on a global scale is being challenged in New Zealand as it reviews its ‘all drug policy‘ through the statutory empowered Law Commission. New Zealand has already given royal assent and passed into law the regulatory model for legal sale, storage, cultivation and manufacture, labeling, place of sale, age of consent and research oversight (Oct 6th, 2008). The UN consultation phase pre-Vienna avoided any recognition either in local or international media of this world first initiative yet cannabis is used in NZ at a rate higher than Jamaica, with clear evidence of extremely damaging consequences to some individuals, the deviancy amplification principally caused by covert Policing. There is scope for New Zealand to lead the world in reform options if it takes the policy analytic approach. The world needs a new Holland!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227096.300-comment-get-real-drug-czars.html
– /Blair

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Media’s Characterisation of Homegrow’s

Blair Anderson Says: September 8th, 2008 at 1:17 am

The media’s characterisation of “homegrow’s” guns and gangs is regrettably consistent with the experience in New Zealand, an island nation both self sufficient in pot and ranking higher than Jamaica in OECD consumption statistics. Clearly, this billion dollar business has some gray areas due for the large part to prohibition’s unintended consequences but it can also be described in other terms that commerce would envy. For all that turnover, just where are the security guards, locked safes, accountants, lawyers and plethora of other necessary personal?
Consider horse gambling? How much investment, capital and working, has to go into the billion dollar wealth creation (equal to the annual pot trade) for individuals, syndicates, clubs and taxation needs to all be met. Now line up the money counters, cleaners and everything in between.

Growing pot is one of the most efficient, friendly, trusting and benign industries ever. It’s vilification by the Police is laughable given the ROI we [taxpayers] get from their deficit funded efforts. The stupidity is civil society just cannot see drug policy in economic terms.

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