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J Day 2025: 3rd May in CHCH, 6th Dec in AKLD

Mar 28, 2025 norml
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NZ’s Drug Driving law passes, with only Green and Te Pati Maori MPs opposed

Mar 26, 2025 Chris
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Nov 5, 2024 norml
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NORML’s Submission on the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill 2024

Sep 12, 2024 Chris
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J Day 2025: 3rd May in CHCH, 6th Dec in AKLD

Mar 28, 2025 norml

Show your support for cannabis law reform. Come to J Day, a free annual community event celebrating Aotearoa’s Kiwi cannabis culture and protesting against prohibition.

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Sign the Petition supporting Gandalf and other Green Fairies

Apr 8, 2025 Chris

Click the link to be directed to the NZ Parliament website where you can sign the petition.

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NZ’s Drug Driving law passes, with only Green and Te Pati Maori MPs opposed

Mar 26, 2025 Chris

New Zealand's parliament has passed the Land Transport Drug Driving Amendment Act 2024,- which swaps out any pretense of measuring impairment with accurate devices, to just detecting recent use of…

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Roll up for Auckland J Day – Sat 7th December in Albert Park

Nov 5, 2024 norml

Show your support for cannabis law reform. Come to J Day, a free annual community event celebrating Aotearoa’s Kiwi cannabis culture and protesting against prohibition. Auckland J Day 2024 is…

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NORML’s Submission on the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill 2024

Sep 12, 2024 Chris

NORML's submission on the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill 2024 focusses on how this Bill and the drug driving testing regime relates to cannabis and the one-in-ten adults in…

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Balance the books with $2.8b tax from legal cannabis

May 26, 2024 Chris

Making cannabis legal could balance the budget without needing to cut thousands of jobs and crucial services.

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Testing times for drivers: National’s new drug-driving law won’t detect impaired drivers & could see innocents prosecuted

May 26, 2024 Chris

The Government has confirmed they will “roll out” legislation this year to enable police to randomly test the saliva of drivers using inaccurate swabs that could see thousands of people…

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J Day 2024 – North and South Island Editions

Apr 9, 2024 norml

This year, J Day will be held in the South on May 4th, and the North will be on Saturday 7th December >> For more info see facebook.com/nzjday

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Predictions for 2024

Feb 2, 2024 Chris

On 95bFM’s weekly Marijuana Media show, NORML’s Chris Fowlie made a few predictions for 2024. Check the pot-cast for more! For more, check out Chris Fowlie’s Marijuana Media pot-cast on 95bFM:…

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#TokeTheVote 2023: Your cannabis-based voting guide

Sep 5, 2023 Chris

NORML's cannabis-based guide to voting in the 2023 NZ general election includes a review of political party cannabis policies and statements by their spokespeople.

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Cannabis Law Reform Roadside Rallies – Sept & Oct 2023

Aug 14, 2023 norml

Roll up, roll up, Auckland! Show your support for law reform at these roadside rallies. Sept 9, Sept 23, & Oct 7. Bring a smile, sign, and your buddies!

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New date for J Day in Auckland: Sat 2 Dec 2023

May 6, 2023 norml

UPDATE: Auckland J Day (postponed due to weather) has a new date: Saturday 2 December, 2023, in Albert Park.

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Changes coming to NZ’s Medicinal Cannabis Scheme

Jan 19, 2023 norml

NORML has obtained a copy of changes to the Medicinal Cannabis Scheme proposed by New Zealand's Ministry of Health. These changes appear to have already had sign-off from the top…

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SIGN THE PETITION: Pardon cannabis offences and decriminalise cannabis

Oct 12, 2022 norml

We call on the New Zealand Government to overturn cannabis possession and use charges, pardon and apologise to those convicted, and decriminalise cannabis possession and use.

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Pardon Kiwi cannabis convicts? Yes, we can.

Oct 11, 2022 Chris

While Americans convicted for possessing pot will soon be pardoned, some local politicians have already stubbed out the roach here, citing the 2020 cannabis referendum result. Yet there remains a…

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Auckland mayoral contest: tough choice for progressive voters

Sep 21, 2022 Chris

As voting packs arrive in the mail, progressive voters in Auckland now face a tough choice in the contest for Mayor: should they hold their nose and vote for socially…

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Should politicians be drug tested?

Aug 25, 2022 Chris

As long as workers are tested for drugs they may do in their own time, should politicians be tested too?

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Ministry of Health reviewing the Medicinal Cannabis Scheme: here’s what works, what went wrong and how we can fix it

Aug 24, 2022 Chris

Last week, as New Zealand’s Medicinal Cannabis Scheme was labelled “unworkable” and the Ministry of Health finally confirmed a review of the scheme was imminent, I did two things that…

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NORML presents the 30th Annual J Day on Saturday May 7, 2022.

Apr 4, 2022 norml

Show your support for cannabis law reform and come to J Day, a free annual community event celebrating Aotearoa's Kiwi cannabis culture and protesting against prohibition.

Chris Fowlie's Blog Drug Testing Your rights

New drug-driving law ignores science, targets poor

Mar 25, 2022 Chris

The effects of a new drug-driving law passed by Parliament yesterday, which ignores the science around testing for impairment, will be felt mostly by the poor and already oppressed.

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