Sign the Petition supporting Gandalf and other Green Fairies
Click the link to be directed to the NZ Parliament website where you can sign the petition.
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J Day 2025: 3rd May in CHCH, 6th Dec in AKLD
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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Roll up for Auckland J Day – Sat 7th December in Albert Park
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 held in Albert Park (CBD) on Sat 7th Dec
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NORML’s Submission on the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill 2024
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 New Zealand who are regular consumers, as well as the large majority of adults who have tried it on occasion; the vast majority of whom are responsible, otherwise law-abiding citizens who may be entrapped by poorly targeted roadside checkpoints intended to detect recent use rather than impairment.
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J Day 2024 – North and South Island Editions
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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#TokeTheVote 2023: Your cannabis-based voting guide
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
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
UPDATE: Auckland J Day (postponed due to weather) has a new date: Saturday 2 December, 2023, in Albert Park.
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SIGN THE PETITION: Pardon cannabis offences and decriminalise cannabis
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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Posted inCampaign Chris Fowlie's Blog Law Reform
Auckland mayoral contest: tough choice for progressive voters
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 conservative Efeso Collins, backed by Labour and the Greens, or support the ‘independent’ bid of socially liberal but right-leaning Wayne Brown?
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Should politicians be drug tested?
As long as workers are tested for drugs they may do in their own time, should politicians be tested too?
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NORML presents the 30th Annual J Day on Saturday May 7, 2022.
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.
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Posted inCampaign Chris Fowlie's Blog Medicinal Use of Cannabis
Cannabis year in review: the referendum’s long shadow
For the second year of the zombie apocalypse, covid cast a long shadow over everything, the referendum left us in a hazy brain fog and the government wished cannabis would just go away – while the rest of the world moved on without us. Yet there is still hope.
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Nonsense brewing over drug driving bill
A bill aiming to curb impaired driving has been derailed and will now criminalise thousands of non-impaired drivers, especially cannabis users.
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One year on from the cannabis referendum: The forgotten 48%
This weekend the Labour Party held their annual conference. It’s also one year since the announcement of the results of their cannabis referendum, in which a forgotten 48 per cent of voters supported full commercial legalisation.
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Posted inCampaign Chris Fowlie's Blog Medicinal Use of Cannabis
Police persecute medicinal cannabis suppliers – this isn’t the kindness or reform we were promised!
Police have been under fire for raiding and prosecuting people using and producing medicinal cannabis products – but the blame lies squarely with politicians writing bad laws.
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10 years ago: the Law Commission said repeal the Misuse of Drugs Act
Ten years ago this week, the New Zealand Law Commission recommended repealing the Misuse of Drugs Act, and replacing it with a new Act administered by the Ministry of Health. This was ignored by the previous National government. In 2017 Labour said they would, if elected, "Comprehensively respond... and replace the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975." It still hasn't happened. The Law Commission's report is here: Controlling and Regulating…
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Most people agree: Repeal prohibition
Legalise, decriminalise or medicalise? There’s one thing almost everyone can agree on: the current law has failed and should be repealed.
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Show your support at J Day, Sat 1 May 2021
The campaign for sensible and fair cannabis laws in Aotearoa is not over. Show your support and come to J Day, on Saturday the 1st of May, a free annual community event celebrating Aotearoa's Kiwi cannabis culture and protesting against prohibition.
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#TokeTheVote2020: ranking party cannabis policies
NORML's guidance for those who toke and vote, and to those who are voting Yes and want the referendum Bill to be supported in the next Parliament.