Archive for the ‘Information’ Category
Complain to the Broadcasting Standards Authority
February 10th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
After the disgracefully one sided story that was shown on Tv1′s Close Up last night, we are encouraging everyone to send letters of complaint to the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
Considering the introductory segment of the article shows it as “Reefer Madness,” there is clearly going to be some classic Government/Media cover up involved.
Watch the story, or read the article for yourself if you haven’t already and judge it for yourself. We also have the original post on our site, with some comments.
Thanks to Hybrid for the link and excerpts.
http://www.bsa.govt.nz/complain-formstandard.php
THE GUIDELINES THAT WERE BREACHED:
Broadcasting Act 1989 section B:
The maintenance of law and orderBroadcasting Act 1989 section D:
The principle that when controversial issues of public importance are discussed, reasonable efforts are made, or reasonable opportunities are given, to present significant points of view, either in the same programme or in other programmes within the period of current interest
Closeup TV 1
February 9th, 2010
Dakta Green
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.
Police Raid The Daktory
January 10th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
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.
Pot clubs go nationwide
January 10th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
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.
Marijuana Stores Trump Starbucks In Denver
January 9th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
Just like in California, the industry is booming…
If you want more proof that selling legal pot is a booming business, consider this statistic: Denver has more medical-marijuana shops than Starbucks Corp. locations.
Denver’s City Treasurer Steve Ellington tells ABC New affiliate Channel 7 that at least 390 pot dispensaries applied for a sales-tax license recently. That compares to 208 Starbucks in the entire state of Colorado, the station reports. Denver’s city council took a step toward regulating the marijuana stores last night, and the businesses are filing their tax applications.
The Denver statistic sheds light on a business that is becoming more institutionalized as local governments try to figure out ways to raise revenue. The Denver council will hold a public hearing and take a final vote Monday. Only a day later, on Tuesday, a California Assembly panel is expected to vote on a bill that would legalize pot across the state.
Ever Wondered How It All Began?
January 5th, 2010
Dakta Bourbon
Here is a cutup video of a documentary called Grass, it is narrated by celebrity activist, Woody Harrelson. It explains all the reasons, or lack of, that Marijuana became illegal in the first place.
Part 1
Interview with Bob Arctor
December 24th, 2009
Dakta Green
An interview with US radio host and author Bob Arctor* for the 4:20 dakumentary currently in production by Redeye Productions.
* not his real name
Cannabis Use Decriminalised While Police Seize Dealers’ Assets
December 24th, 2009
Dakta Green
New asset recovery legislation coming into action today will see Police able to seize unexplained income and assets from drug dealers far more easily, but at the same time a new Police policy of formal warnings for so called minor offences is tantamount to decriminalising possession and use of cannabis according to former Police detective and MethCon Group director Mike Sabin.
“The asset recovery legislation is long over due” stated Mr. Sabin and “with Police able to seize assets under a civil standard of proof, Police will make great inroads into the ill-gotten gains of organised crime that yield multiple billions of dollars from the methamphetamine and cannabis trade in New Zealand.”
This strategy was one of a number of recommendations made to the new National led government by Mr. Sabin, “the thrust of the strategy being to seize finances and assets of dealers and re-invest these funds, via the crown account, into prevention and treatment aimed at driving down demand for the very drugs the criminals profited from.”
“Unfortunately, while the Police will be making the most of this new legislation, at the same time they are effectively waiving a white flag to the customers whose demand supports drug dealers, with a trial of a new policy of warnings for minor offences being widened across Auckland and likely to go nation-wide” said Mr. Sabin. Following a three month pilot on the North Shore in Auckland, Police have announced that they have extended the trial for six months across wider Auckland and will see Police under new ‘formal guidelines’ issuing warnings at their discretion for offences with maximum penalties of 2 years imprisonment or less, including shoplifting, possession of knives, common assault and possession of cannabis.
“Police hierarchy justify what they say is a ‘common sense approach’, by claiming these offences ‘would not get significant sentences anyway’, which not only flies in the face of their own ‘Broken Windows’, New York style policing policies of the late 90s, but sends a clear message to the community that it is very unlikely that using cannabis and possession of smaller amounts of the drug, will attract anything other than a warning” claimed Mr. Sabin. Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING NEWS – Marijuana Legalization On CA’s 2010 Ballot
December 16th, 2009
Dakta Bourbon
YES WE CANNABIS and YES WE DID! The folks at the The Tax & Regulate Cannabis 2010 here in Oaksterdam California have gathered the 650,000 signatures necessary to put the legalization of marijuana on the November 2010 ballot! This major victory means Californians will be the first in the nation to decide whether they believe marijuana should be legal…taxed and regulated for all adults over 21.
Richard Lee, the president of Oaksterdam University, owner of the famous Coffeeshop Blue Sky, and major financial supporter of the initiative told Stuff Stoners Like, “California voters believe that our laws criminalizing marijuana have failed! 56% of Californian’s support legalization and the time for reform is now.” Read the rest of this entry »
Canadians Saved by Senate from Heavy-handed Tory Pot Law
December 14th, 2009
Dakta Bourbon
December 10, 2009 – Canada’s Senate made a sensible amendment Wednesday to a politically motivated bill that would have seen people who grew as few as five marijuana plants serve a mandatory six-month jail term.
Accepting a proposal from a Liberal-dominated Senate committee, by a 49-43 margin the Senate watered down the proposed legislation by raising the number of marijuana plants grown to more than 201 plants, which would see judges use their own discretion in sentencing those found guilty of growing fewer than 200 pot plants.
Judicial discretion is a keystone to our justice system. Read the rest of this entry »