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Police in Dargaville unlawfully trespassed a cannabis law reform group when it tried holding a political meeting in a building which they already had been granted permission to use.

A proposed Bill that would see smoking devices like pipes, bongs, and vapourisers outlawed will increase the harm to the community from drugs, as banning such items would only encourage young Kiwis to use cannabis in more damaging ways.

A Whangarei cannabis club, set up by Daktory founder Dakta Green on Friday night, attracted around fifty locals but not the attention of police.

Phil Saxby, President of NORML NZ, today welcomed the New Zealand Medical Association’s stance on cannabis for medicinal use and called upon the Government to adopt the same sensible position.

Afghanistan is the worlds most proficient producer of hashish, a simple and popular preparation from cannabis. Not only does hashish production help replace opium with its myriad of contingent consequences (mostly from its prohibition), cannabis supplements ...

A significant find of cannabis in the vehicle of a visitor to Auckland Central Remand Prison (ACRP) this week should act as a deterrent to other says Prison Manager Grace Smit.

Over 450 charges have been laid against 248 people as a result of this year's cannabis recovery operation in Central District.

Six kgs of cannabis, half a million dollars in cash and a stun gun, WOW that's a find.

The founder of New Zealand’s first cannabis club the Daktory, Dakta Green, today described a raid Monday on an 18-year old cannabis law reform campaigner’s house in Blenheim as “completely over the top and unlawful”.

“The Government has to start getting real on the issue of cannabis prohibition because the current law only encourages young teenagers’ use of the drug”, said the NORML NZ’s Auckland spokesperson Stephen McIntyre today.

The recent Study into the academic achievement of young cannabis users demonstrates a clear reason to Reform New Zealand's harsh cannabis laws. Currently there is no age limit for cannabis and since dealers do not check IDs, youths can buy cannabis ...

A new collaborative study of more than 6000 New Zealanders and Australians found those who used cannabis before the age of 18 ended up with fewer academic qualifications.

Mr Keith Smith, Chairman of Tourism Holdings Limited, announced today the appointment of Mr John Bongard, ONZM as a Director of the company. John graduated from Auckland University with a Bachelor of Commerce and is most known for his roles at Fisher ...

The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (ALCP) is outraged at the extradition to the USA, of Marc Emery, the 'Prince of Pot'. The ALCP is Calling on John Key to put diplomatic pressure on his good friend Steven Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister to reverse ...

High profile cannabis law reform campaigner and founder of the cannabis club The Daktory, Dakta Green, is to appear in the Auckland District Court at

The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (ALCP) welcomes the news that cannabis is now four times stronger than in the past. Not only will users get more medicinal value from "super-strength" cannabis, they will be able to smoke less to achieve ...

Cannabis law reform group NORML NZ says that crowds at J-Day events all around the country yesterday, May 1, regarded the recent raids on gardening shops as an attack on New Zealand's cannabis culture.

Billy McKee, spokesman for Green Cross, an association of medical cannabis users, is angry about this week’s police raids on indoor gardening shops.

Police have uncovered a further 23 commercial indoor cannabis growing operations since early yesterday, totalling over 500 plants, 8 firearms, including unlawful military style semi-automatic weapons along with methamphetamine, ecstasy and LSD.

Green Cross spokesperson Billy McKee today said that this week's raids by police targeting hydroponic supply shops must be ‘good news’ for gangs, but is very bad news for medical cannabis users.

Bay of Plenty Police today arrested eight people who will face a total of 50 drug-related charges, as part of a national operation targeting the commercial sale of equipment to be used for growing cannabis. Seven people were arrested in Western Bay of Plenty, ...

The ALCP is disgusted with repressive policing of gardening shops and their employees, while a virtually unfettered free-market approach is taken to an evidentially more harmful drug, alcohol.

"The anti-cannabis raids termed Operation Lime have struck a firm blow against freedom," declared Libertarianz Drugs Spokesman Luke Howison today. "Coming so close together with Geoffrey Palmer's anti-alcohol Law Commission report, these raids and arrests ...

As part of the termination of the national Undercover operation "Operation Lime", 45 uniform and CIB staff from Wellington Police executed a number of search warrants at business premises and residential dwellings yesterday morning. The operation targeted ...

Today Christchurch Police have been involved in the termination of Operation Lime a national covert operation targeting commercial suppliers of equipment used for growing cannabis.

Southern Police this morning executed eight search warrants on business and residential properties in Invercargill and Dunedin as part of the national police undercover operation codenamed Operation Lime, targeting businesses and individuals responsible ...

Police this morning swooped on 35 businesses and numerous residential addresses throughout the country as search warrants were executed as part of a two-year undercover Police operation codenamed ‘Operation Lime’. This operation targeted businesses and ...

New Zealand can eliminate the bogus 'need' for a new 1000 bed privately-run prison in South Auckland by decriminalising and regulating cannabis. It is a long overdue civil society reform that would recognise cannabis prohibition as bad policy and ...

Dakta Green's cannabis law reform tour of the North Island is making people stop, think and act.

Forest owners are deeply concerned to hear that Customs doesn’t bother to prosecute many people who illegally import cannabis seeds. “Former forestry minister Jim Anderton is right on the button. There should be a nil tolerance for cannabis importers."