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Cannabis law reform campaigner and Cannabus driver Dakta Green has been arrested and charged twice for minor cannabis offending and breaking bail conditions.
Libertarianz notes with alarm that these arrests coincided with the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party's announcement that Dakta Green would be standing as their candidate in the Mt Albert by-election.
Libertarianz supports the ALCP's call for cannabis to be legalised and believes that peacefully smoking cannabis should not be a crime. Police should not waste any time or money on the persecution of otherwise law-abiding cannabis smokers.
While Libertarianz believes that political party candidates should be subject to the laws of the country like any other citizens, the timing of the arrests rings alarm bells that the police are politically motivated in their actions.
Libertarianz calls for an end to the madness that is cannabis prohibition, and demands that all charges against Dakta Green be dropped.
Free Dakta Green!
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The ALCP will be able to
The ALCP will be able to milk this all the way to the ballot box. No one can bleat law and order and sensible sentencing on the hustings again until they can justify this one (which may make a pleasant change in political soapboxing.)
We can expect ACT's response, if any, will be a bit of a curly one! Rodney Hide is clearly at risk of offending the National Camp, despite that no one seemed to notice that New Zealand legally regulated (and taxed) psychoactive recreational soft drugs under Ministry of Health oversight, by order in council and has with the Nov 6th, 2008 royal accent added in effect a NEW DRUG CLASSIFICATION. It became law 2 days before we voted the buggers in. It provides for Cannabis Regulations on sale, storage, cultivation, labeling, R18 consent, advertising... indeed as a justice/crime prevention initiative this is world class stuff (and that is "why the whole world is watching" - said under Chatham House Rules - BEYOND2008 ).
What will the media make of this....