Nueva Zelanda: el referendo sobre la ‘obsoleta’ ley del cannabis ‘llega con un largo retraso’

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Nueva Zelanda: el referendo sobre la ‘obsoleta’ ley del cannabis ‘llega con un largo retraso’

1 noviembre 2017

El nuevo Gobierno de coalición ha manifestado su intención de abandonar los enfoques punitivos frente al consumo de cannabis, que ya se han probado pero han fracasado. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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By Matt Burrows

The director of the NZ Drug Foundation is welcoming a referendum on cannabis law reform, saying we need a change after 42 years of drug legislation that's "done nothing".

In an email sent out to Green Party delegates on Thursday night, the party outlined 10 big policy wins - including a referendum on legalising the personal use of cannabis by 2020, and more financial backing for drug and alcohol services.

Drug Foundation director Ross Bell says that as a country with one of the highest proportion of users in the world, it's about time we got onto it.

"Fundamentally for us, it's long overdue that New Zealand had a crack at its obsolete drug law. The law that's in place today, in 2017, was passed in 1975," he said.