Family appeals to Government for change after medical cannabis costs plunges family into debt
“We are trying to raise law-abiding citizens. And it just seems so hard. The law is too harsh. It’s really too harsh.”
“We are trying to raise law-abiding citizens. And it just seems so hard. The law is too harsh. It’s really too harsh.”
“How can you capture everything you need to in terms of protecting public health, protecting young people, raising money to put into health and education, how can you wrap all of those issues up in a single question?
“It is fantastic to be able to offer people at the flax roots an accessible investment opportunity allowing them to be part of an industry that is booming globally.”
The administrators of Health Select Committee wrote to some submitters on the medicinal cannabis bill, giving them the option to change their submission, as many had admitted to breaking the law.
“I know that causes anxiety amongst politicians … but in the real world right now people are growing cannabis and using it for medical purposes and so we think the bill should make legal what is already happening.”
We need to be thinking about affordability for our people—it can’t be only for the rich because that’s what it is at the moment.”
Hikurangi Cannabis managing director Manu Caddie says the deal is also expected to increase employment levels in the East Coast.
The legislation currently before Parliament, means anyone terminally ill will not have to rely on the discretion of the police or the courts if they’re caught with cannabis.
Today’s policy release is being welcomed by users of medical cannabis such as Auckland-based Dr Huhana Hickey who has multiple sclerosis.
I’m gutted that cynical politics won tonight, not the voices of the vulnerable and the sick who are presently being criminalised because of archaic law demonstrably unfit for purpose,” she wrote