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Restore Respect for Law, End Cannabis Prohibition
Posted on February 27th, 2010 by Cam Wright (Dakta Bourbon) | Filed under Featured, Information, Legalization, News, Press Releases. 3 Comments »
Friday, 26 February 2010, 4:47 pm
Press Release: NORML
NORML to Collins: Restore Respect for Police by Ending Cannabis ProhibitionNORML President Phil Saxby today called on Police Minister Judith Collins to restore public respect for law enforcement by calling an armistice in this country’s prolonged “war on drugs”.
In response to recent attacks on Police Officers, Ms Collins has been quoted as saying that “it’s extremely important to rebuild the respect and fear for the law.”
“Fear of the law isn’t the problem,” said Mr Saxby. “What has been eroding away in New Zealand is respect for the law and then by association, those who enforce it.”
“The Misuse of Drugs Act created the so-called “war on drugs” which is actually a war on ordinary Kiwis. After thirty-five years of criminalisation, the 400,000 people from all walks of life who currently use cannabis justifiably feel marginalised and discriminated against.”
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Closeup TV 1
Posted on February 9th, 2010 by Dakta Green | Filed under Armistice Tour, Events, Featured, Information, News, The Daktory. 8 Comments »
Tonight, Close up on TV1 had an article on Mary Jane, the Cannabus. They had based the story around it being following her trip up to Waitangi, but ended up spending most of the time showing every bad clip they could about the trip, and of ‘Dacktar’ Green! Yes, that’s right, they didn’t even bother checking to see how to spell it.
Though there is the presence of a balanced article, it seems to lack any any footage of support for the cause, other than members of The Daktory talking to the camera.
For those of you who haven’t read the text article, or seen the poor photography to go with, you can check it out here.
For those of you who want to check out the video, you can get that here.
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‘Live Like It’s Legal’: Landmark Cannabis Hearing In New Zealand
Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Cam Wright (Dakta Bourbon) | Filed under Featured, Legalization, News, The Daktory. 20 Comments »
Dakta Green, founder of New Zealand’s most visible cannabis club, will argue in court Wednesday that marijuana laws are a fundamental breach of his rights, in what is being called a “landmark” hearing.
Green will argue before Judge Keirnan in Auckland District Court that cannabis laws discriminate against users of the herb, and that the severity of marijuana penalties under the Misuse of Drugs Act violates New Zealand’s Bill of Rights Act.
“Alcohol and tobacco are dangerous drugs but are legally available,” Green said. “Cannabis causes less harm to our community.”
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President of cannabis club has expansion plans
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Cam Wright (Dakta Bourbon) | Filed under Cannabis on Trial, Featured, Legalization, News, The Daktory. 18 Comments »
This article also has a video that can be viewed on the 3news website.
By Simon Shepherd
A man who has been operating a cannabis club in west Auckland for the last year plans to set up similar clubs throughout the country.
He calls himself “Dakta Green”, and claims his members have been freely flouting the law until police raided his house last week.
Members of the “Daktory” club, run by Mr Green, pay a fee to smoke cannabis.
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Police Raid The Daktory
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Cam Wright (Dakta Bourbon) | Filed under Blog, Cannabis on Trial, Featured, Information, News, The Daktory. 3 Comments »
Dakta Green:
Police raid my home (The Daktory).
Yesterday (Saturday January 9 2010) about 12 New Zealand Police walked through my open door, entered The Daktory for the first time in the 14 months we have been open and exercised a search warrant. They found a few plants and a couple of ounces. I was arrested, charged with cultivation of cannabis and released on bail.
Today Sunday News have a front page headline “Pot shops to open across NZ” followed by a two page spread.
Lets hope we see some of this on the 6pm news, the more media coverage the better.
Stuff.co.nz have a poll going with the article posted this morning about The Daktory, current votes are: Yes, it should be decriminalised: 552 votes, 62.8%, No, the laws are fine: 327 votes, 37.2%, so it seems the NZ public is heading in the right direction.
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Pot clubs go nationwide
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Cam Wright (Dakta Bourbon) | Filed under Blog, Featured, Information, Legalization, News, The Daktory. 1 Comment »
From stuff.co.nz
Cannabis clubs – where users flout the law by meeting to smoke and buy the Class C drug – may soon open nationwide.
Next month founding members of New Zealand’s first cannabis connoisseurs’ club, Auckland’s Daktory, plan to meet fellow users throughout the country to help set-up Daktories in other cities.
“We have demand from virtually every city in the country,” Daktory founder Dakta Green told Sunday News.
” I would expect to see in the next 12 months Daktories in every major city in this country, every city should have at least one – 2010 is the year people within our culture are demanding changes throughout the world.”
Auckland’s Daktory, in New Lynn, plans to offer “degrees in Daktology” later this year – formalised study on all aspects of the cannabis industry including hands-on cultivation techniques.
For the first two-and-a-half months the Daktory was open cannabis was sold from the venue, and at one point almost 20 different strands of cannabis were available.
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Cannabis vs The Courts
Posted on December 14th, 2009 by Dakta Green | Filed under Cannabis on Trial, Featured, History, Legalization, News, Press Releases. 3 Comments »
CANNABIS RIGHTS TRIAL NEXT MONDAY 21st December 2009. Auckland District Court.
In a legal first for New Zealand, The founder of The Daktory, New Zealand’s first Cannabis club will appear in court next Monday to argue that Cannabis laws are a breach of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. The Daktory has been operating openly for the last year and has over two thousand members.
Dakta Green, will appear in court to argue for a stay of criminal proceedings following arrests made during decriminalisation protests held in 2007.
“I want the whole thing thrown out” said Dakta Green. “Alcohol causes more harm than cannabis but alcohol users are protected by law. Cannabis users are persecuted. The laws are discriminatory. They don’t work and they are unjust. Police and the Courts have got better things to do than chase after the likes of me and the 800,000 other people who smoke cannabis each year in New Zealand.”
Dakta Green, an experienced political campaigner, intends to pursue his claims all the way to the Supreme Court if he needs to. “We will never give up fighting for our rights as citizens.”
Arguing that cannabis laws are a breach of civil and human rights have never been tried before in a New Zealand court. If successful with his application, Dakta Green will set a ground breaking legal precedent.
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Stay of Proceedings Application
Posted on December 10th, 2009 by Dakta Green | Filed under Cannabis on Trial, Featured, Legalization, News, The Daktory. 3 Comments »
I filed this application a few hours ago in the Auckland District Court. We go to court on December 21st 2009 to argue the merits. (I expect to win)
APPLICATION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS
May it please the Court;
1. My name is Dakta Green.
2. I am not a lawyer, nor do I have any special legal training. That said, I have chosen to represent myself in these proceedings because I seek to focus on my fundamental rights as a citizen, as opposed to any complicated legal arguments that may otherwise be advanced.
3. My application for a stay of proceedings is founded upon the following general propositions:
· Because of my pro cannabis beliefs I have been, and continue to be, subjected to “cruel or disproportionately severe treatment or punishment” in breach of section 9 of the New Zealand Bill or Rights Act 1990 (NZBORA).
· By denying me the right to possess cannabis, the State is subjecting me to “medical or scientific experimentation” without my consent in breach of section 10 of the NZBORA.
· I have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and detention in breach of section 22 of the NZBORA.
· Because the courts in New Zealand have not to date accepted medical necessity as a defence to any cannabis charges, my right to a fair trial under section 25(a) NZBORA has been breached.
· I contend that the current law prohibiting the personal use of cannabis is hopelessly outdated and plain wrong. This law is widely ignored and/or breached by members of our society such that the law should no longer be enforced by the courts of the land. This law is an “ass” and for the general good of the community it should be recognised as such.
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4:20 Roughcut: “4.20 To Dunsterdam”
Posted on December 9th, 2009 by Cam Wright (Dakta Bourbon) | Filed under Featured, The Daktory. 1 Comment »
4:20 Roughcut: “4.20 TO DUNSTERDAM” 42 Towns, 42 Days, 42 4.20 protests. In 2008 New Zealand’s most famous road vehicle, Maryjane the Cannabus, departed from Auckland after a 4.20 at Albert Park, and traveled from the top of the North Island to the tip of the South and back. Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt, NZ’s most famous toker who stood for the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party in the 1996 general election, was invited to the 4.20. Instead of coming down to the protest he had the law come down on the protesters…
Visit more of 420NewZealand’s video here (The Daktory’s Official YouTube Channel)
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Dakta in the house
Posted on December 4th, 2009 by Cam Wright (Dakta Bourbon) | Filed under Cannabis on Trial, Featured, Information, News, The Daktory. No Comments »
He calls himself Dakta Green.
The 59-year-old has been jailed in California and New Zealand for cultivating cannabis but has no plans to change his ways.
Dakta is a strong activist for law reform surrounding the drug and has been pushing for its legalisation since 1999.
He’s even set up a cannabis club in a New Lynn warehouse known as the Daktory. Read the rest of this entry »
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