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Sharples Speech on Misuse of Drugs Bill
Posted on August 27th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Featured, New Zealand, News. No Comments »
Thursday, 26 August 2010, 3:17 pm
Speech: The Maori PartyMISUSE OF DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL
First Reading
Wednesday 25 August 2010; 7.45pm
Hon Dr Pita Sharples, Co-leader Maori PartyThis is an amendment that the government is making to the misuse of drugs act, which will make the supplying, importing or possessing a pipe, or any identifiable component, illegal. This will only cause more harm to the community, as we all end up with aluminium poisoning from our homemade cone pieces. Help us fight this bill by adding a submission here.
Tēnā koe, Mr Assistant Speaker. I will take a short call on this bill.
The bill amends the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 and the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2005 by inserting a complex drug vocabulary into the statute.
The basic incentive of the bill is to reclassify ephedrine and pseudoephedrine as class B controlled drugs, remove thalidomide as a class A controlled drug, allow hazardous substances to be scheduled as restricted substances, extend the definition of amphetamine analogues, and extend the controls over drug paraphernalia. Read the rest of this entry »
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New Dates for Whangarei and Dargaville!
Posted on August 15th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Armistice Tour 2010, News. 1 Comment »
We can now confirm that our Northland tour will be happening next weekend.
Whangarei – Friday 20th August
Dargaville – Saturday 21st AugustWe will be setting up the Mobile Daktory each night, so come down and visit us. The address will be posted later in the week, so stay tuned to our itinerary and facebook.
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Mary Jane is still coughing after having an excessively large bong hit, Northland Tour postponed
Posted on August 13th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Armistice Tour 2010, Featured, Misc, New Zealand, News, The Daktory. No Comments »
Well, not literally.
The bus suffered some more mechanical issues this morning, as the Armistice Tour convoy set off for it’s Northland tour. As a result, we are sorry to inform you that we will be postponing our Northland tour. We are truly sorry to those of you who were hoping to checkout our Mobile Daktory, but we will be making it up to you at a later date.
We will be visiting the Auckland electorates regardless of Mary Jane’s status, as we will be showing up with our support vehicles, Stashin Wagon and the Bongo Van, if she is not working on the day.
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Armistice Tour – Press Release
Posted on August 9th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Armistice Tour 2010, Featured, New Zealand, News, Press Releases. 3 Comments »
Stage three of the cannabis Armistice Tour kicks off on Wednesday, August 11 and will cover the entire country before a hikoi to Parliament on Armistice Day, November 11.
Dakta Green, founder of Auckland’s cannabis club The Daktory, will be driving Maryjane the Cannabus, along with an entourage of support vehicles in a three month tour commencing at 11 am with a ceremony beneath the lighthouse at Cape Reinga on Wednesday.
“We will visit every electorate Member of Parliament office in the country and talk with MP’s about the harms that criminalisation causes for ordinary New Zealanders,” said Dakta Green. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Daktory Prepares for the next Armistice Tour
Posted on August 8th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Armistice Tour 2010, Featured, Information, New Zealand, News. No Comments »
As of tomorrow, this site will under go some big changes, with updating daily footage and information about our upcoming Armistice Tour. As of Tuesday this coming week, we will be uploading footage from our visitis to MP’s electoral offices around the country. Along with this, we will be broadcasting from our Mobile Daktory each night, so you can be a part of the tour from around the world! Find out when the tour will be in your town here.
The tour will see Mary Jane the Cannabus, along with it’s newly pained support vehicles. painted support vehicles, head from Cape Reinga, to the Bluff, and back up to Auckland, stopping by all of the countries electoral offices to spread the truth about cannabis, and to show support for users around the world.
If you are looking to be a part of the tour, then you can ether help us make some noise at 2pm outside your local MPs office when we visit your town, or stop by at our mobile Daktory, which will be setup each night. If you are looking for more info then check out the Armistice Tour 2010 information page, or email us at armistice.tour@thedaktory.org.nz.
The Daktory, live like it’s legal!
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Opposition To DEA Pot Raids Spreads Across Political Spectrum
Posted on August 3rd, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Information, Legalization, Medical, News. No Comments »
by By Steve Elliott on tokeofthetown.com
Two ideologically diverse advocates on Wednesday echoed an earlier call by a coalition of drug-policy reform groups by condemning a series of recent raids by the Drug Enforcement Administration on medical marijuana collectives operating legally under state law.
The Tenth Amendment Center, a group that advocates for states’ rights, and Jane Hamsher, the publisher of Firedoglake.com, called on the DEA to respect duly adopted state medical marijuana laws and immediately end those raids.
“The federal government is only authorized to exercise those powers that ‘We The People’ delegated to it in the Constitution,” said Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. “It is especially egregious when these laws are used to justify raids in states where the use and distribution of cannabis is expressly allowed by law.”
“How many hundreds of thousands of people are going to be arrested before We The People say ‘enough is enough’?” Boldin asked. “The time to end this unconstitutional, immoral, and costly federal war on people is now.”
Under the “leadership” of acting administrator Michele Leonhart, the DEA has staged medical marijuana raids in apparent disregard of Attorney General Eric Holder’s directive to respect state medical marijuana laws. Read the rest of this entry »
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Yes on Prop 19 Winning 52%-36%; Majority Supports Legalizing Marijuana
Posted on July 27th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Legalization, News. No Comments »
Proposition 19, which would legalize, tax and regulate marijuana for adults over 21 years old, is currently winning by a wide margin among California voters according to a new PPP poll. The measure is supported by 52% of voters while opposed by only 36%.
- Prop 19 PPP
- Support 52%
- Oppose 36%
This is the largest margin of support we have seen from recent polling on Prop 19. Interestingly, the poll found support among African Americans to be extremely high. From PPP blog:
Democrats are more likely to throw their support behind the prop than Republicans. 62% of Democrats, 37% of Republicans and 55% of Independents support Prop 19.
African-Americans are the strongest supporters of Prop 19; 68:32, followed by Whites who support it 53:37.
Those are surprisingly high numbers among African Americans. A SurveyUSA poll from earlier this month had African Americans on average about as likely to support Prop 19 as whites. Significantly, a small percentage of African Americans said they were certain to oppose it.
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New Poll: Majority of American Adults Support Legalizing Marijuana, Oppose Drug War
Posted on July 23rd, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Information, Legalization, News. 1 Comment »
By: Jon Walker Wednesday July 21, 2010 10:01 pm
According to a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll (PDF), American adults overwhelmingly believe the “War on Drugs” has been a failure: 65 percent of adults describe it that way, while only eight percent call it a success and 27 percent are not sure. After several decades, billions of dollars spent and hundreds of thousands of arrests as part of the War on Drugs, illegal drugs remain easily available throughout the nation. It’s no surprise Americans say the policy has failed.
With so many Americans viewing the War on Drugs as a policy failure, they’re now open to legalizing the most common and safest of illegal substances, marijuana. Read the rest of this entry »
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Medical Marijuana Saves Child’s Life
Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Medical, News. No Comments »
Knocking on deaths door, 10 year old Joey Perez was slowly dying. The potpourri of prescription medications he’d consumed since the age of 5 were damaging his body beyond repair. The side effects were literally killing him. Doctors had no answers, or any safe alternatives. Their only suggestion was the combination of a few more meds, and to experiment with what happened next. Mieko, Joeys mother, knew his body was weak and shutting down. She knew his fragile body could not handle the addition of any more toxic medicines. Luckily for Joey, her experience as a legal researcher gave her the tools she needed to start her and Joey on this journey. A healing journey with an effective treatment – Medical Marijuana.
Read the rest of this article at compassionassociates.org
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California Dems Endorse Pot Legalization, Proposition 19
Posted on July 14th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Legalization, News. 1 Comment »
Democratic lawmakers from California are hoping that a proposition to legalize marijuana on the November ballot will help drive progressive voter turnout, but most are so far unwilling to state publicly how they’ll vote when the curtain closes. Three House Democrats, however, tell HuffPost that they’ll be supporting the measure, which would authorize cities and counties to tax and regulate the sale of marijuana for adults 21 and over.
Three may not seem like a high number, but it represents the most public support that legalization has garnered from a single state’s delegation — and it signals the effect that ballot initiatives can have on advancing the public debate over marijuana policy. Many of the rest of the Democrats in the delegation said they were open to supporting it. The state’s chapter of the NAACP has also come out in favor of it. Read the rest of this entry »