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This case exemplifies all that is wrong with the international drug covenants and conventions to which New Zealand is a signatory.

Recent hangings in South East Asia, firing squads in China, and most recently two Kiwi’s arrested (and presumed guilty) for 3.5oz of cannabis between them in India, (the home of Ganja, a plant named as sacred along with the river Ganges) all happen because we as a nation collectively give licence to kill and incarcerate cruelly and inhumanely.

Where is the legal profession on drug policy?

Or is the substantial legal aid grift and perpetual social mayhem an incentive for a silence closely resembling stupidity? NZ’s own National Drug Intelligence Bureau chief along with the BERL Drug Harm report (though much criticised) states that the revenue ‘churn’ through the legal system is a DRUG HARM.

The LEGAL profession are beneficiaries of the unintended consequences. So when are you collectively going to talk about that?

To the Law Commission? Yeah Right!

Curiously, in Christchurch’s sister city Seattle, it was the law profession that lead drug policy law reform. see King County Bar Association – http://www.kcba.org/druglaw/

“The principal objectives of this effort are: reductions in crime and public disorder; improvement of the public health; better protection of children; and wiser use of scarce public resources.”

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Judge Jerry Paradis on 95bFM [12 Sept]

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Judge Jerry Paradis on 95bFM

MP3, 11minutes, 2.6MB, first broadcast 12 September 2008.

Jerry Paradis, retired judge from the Provincial Court of British Columbia,

(note: Mikey Havoc interviewed Law Enforcement Against Prohibition‘s Eddie Ellison for TV3 network in April 2004 /Blair)

• Pro Vice-Chancellor’s Winter Lecture – ‘Drugs and the Law’
• Judge Jerry Paradis, Ilam Campus Wednesday 10th Sep
• ‘Drug Sanity Revisited’ by Dave Currie

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Pro Vice-Chancellor’s Winter Lecture – ‘Drugs and the Law’

Time: 4.30pm, September 12, 2008.

In association with the Gambling and Addictions Research Centre, National Institute for Public Health and Mental Health Research, AUT University, and the New Zealand Legal and Social Philosophy Society

You are invited to the following lecture by visiting Canadian judge Jerry Paradis. He is in New Zealand to make a submission to the NZ Law Commission’s Review on Drug Policy and the Law. His visit has received widespread media attention.

Following the lecture there will be time for questions and discussion, refreshments and socialising.

While of particular relevance to lawyers, public health professionals and others who work in the drugs field, this lecture will be of interest to many people who variously engage in, think about and are affected by drug use and drug policy.

RSVPs are ESSENTIAL mailto:sheree.green-molloy@aut.ac.nz

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http://nzlsp.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/map_-_wellesley_campus-of-aut.pdf

Judge Jerry Paradis,

Judge, Provincial Court of British Columbia, 1975-2003

Director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

‘Drugs and the Law’

Judge Paradis has dealt with over a thousand drug cases. He seeks a reduction in drug-related harms – to individuals, families and wider society. However, he sees present drug law and its application as a contributor to these harms, rather than a solution. During his nearly 30 years on the bench Judge Paradis became increasingly disillusioned with prohibition and criminal justice approaches to drug use. Reflecting on notes from cases he presided over, Judge Paradis reflects “the same number of people are choosing to ingest mood-altering substances, the same proportion are addicted, and there is the same persistent but increasingly lucrative and efficient system of supply. We – citizens, police and judges – have lived and worked within the orthodoxy that all drugs are inherently evil (except, of course, alcohol) and that prohibition and punishment can rid us of the. How wrong we have been.”

This lecture draws on the speaker’s expertise in human rights, jurisprudence and the international debate concerning drug policy and the place of the law and harm minimisation.

Sheree Green-Molloy mailto:sheree.green-molloy@aut.ac.nz

Executive Assistant for Professor Max Abbott
Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean
Faculty of Health & Environmental Sciences
AUT University (North Shore)
90 Akoranga Drive
Private Bag 92006, Northcote
Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Ph: + 64 9 921 9894
Fax: + 64 9 921 9706

• Milestones in Drug Policy, Homegrown Solutions Are Best.
• Law Enforcement Against Prohibition NZ Tour
• Human Rights, Health and Harm Reduction

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