Dakta Green sentenced to 8 months in jail
Dakta Green, the founder of The Daktory, was today sentenced to 8 months in prison after being found guilty of three cannabis related charges.
After running a safe and regulated environment for cannabis users over the past few years, Dakta found himself being caught up in the hypocrisy that is prohibition. If there is no victim, there shouldn’t be a crime.
For now, The Daktory will be running as normal (but still no dispensary) while Green is gone.
Thank you to all of you who came out to support Dakta today at the Auckland District Court. We made a lot of noise. Check out the 6pm news for some coverage, will post some links when they become available.
Kia kaha Dakta Green
By choosing jail over home detention, you show the courage of your convictions. I hope these charges are being appealed to a higher court. After all, when the Chief Justice has given a speech pointing out that keeping people in prison makes them more likely to offend, it just makes it all the more rediculous to put people in prison for using, or even supplying, a herb like cannabis:
http://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/speechpapers/Shirley%20Smith%202009%20lecture-Blameless%20Babes-9%20July%202009.pdf/at_download/file
Ka whawhai tonu mātou
Strypes
no one can know what green is thinking but if it were me i would do the 4 months and be out to stand in the general election,,,, but thats just me.
FREE THE WEED
FREE OUR PEOPLE
FREE DAKTA GREEN and put the real criminals in jail. He hasn’t hurt anyone or stolen anything, tried to rob a bank, he just wants laws for people over 18 to be just and fair.
This article is pasted and copied from an ALCP press release and by the sounds of it, what’s happened is against the law, so hopefully he might be out sooner than later.
Here’s hoping
Jail Sentence for candidate flies in face of Law Commission and Bill of Rights
ALCP: Jail Sentence for candidate
Saturday, 2 July 2011, 4:07 pm
Press Release: ALCP
ALCP: Jail Sentence for candidate flies in face of Law Commission and Bill of Rights
The New Lynn candidate for the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (ALCP) Dakta Green has had his election campaign directly undermined by the Crown after he was sent to jail last week.
“The party is shocked at the severity of the sentence – 8 months jail – received by Dakta Green in the Auckland Court,” said ALCP deputy leader Mike Britnell.
“Dakta Green could only be accused at worst, of – ‘Social Dealing’ which the Law Commission Report recommends should not be an imprisonable offence.”
R66 “There should be a statutory presumption against imprisonment in cases of social dealing”. The Law Commission Report 2011 – ‘Controlling and Regulating Drugs – A Review of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975’. Page 29.
“His sentencing has directly influenced a democratic election process. It has had a detrimental impact on his ability to campaign for election to parliament”
“Dakta Green has shown himself to be a responsible host of a type of R18 Cannabis Café called a Daktory, which is allowed in other countries of the world.”
“Dakta Green is not a criminal but standing up for his and other cannabis consumers rights. The policy to imprison people in this country for their political beliefs is just as bad as any other undemocratic country in the world that does this.”
“Locking up Dakta Green for his political beliefs, is equal to locking someone on the base of colour, race, religion or politics, going against the following articles of the NZ Bill of Rights.”
Article 9:’ The right not to be subject to torture or to cruel degrading or disproportionately severe treatment or punishment.’
Imprisonment for using and sharing an herb is disproportionately severe.
Section 13 – ‘The right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief including the right to adopt and hold opinions without interference.’
It is gross interference to threaten people with jail for their political cannabis opinion.
Section14 – ‘ Freedom of Expression, including the freedom to seek , receive and impart information and opinions of any kind in any form.’
Dakta Green had the right to have his opinions about cannabis and his form of expression about cannabis,
Section 15 – ‘Religion and Belief, the right to manifest that persons religion or belief in worship, observance, practice or teaching, either individually or in community with others, either in public or private.’ Section 16 – ‘The Right of peaceful Assembly’ Section 17 – ‘The Right of Freedom of Association’ Section 19 – Non Discrimination and Minority Rights guarantees freedom from discrimination. Section 22 –‘The Right not to be arbitrarily arrested or detained.’
“All of the above rights of Dakta Green and other cannabis consumers are being violated by the current system. Unfortunately arrest and imprisonment for use of the herb cannabis is so commonplace with over 150,000 arrests over the last 10 years that, people have become numb to the misery and cost prohibition is causing to our community.”
“The Law Commission Report has given us an opportunity to change this violent, discriminatory, expensive and fascist law. We wait impatiently for enlightenment to shine into this dark age of oppression and chaos.”
“Free Dakta Green.”
This story above is so wrong. The law commission report is not the law, the law is the Misuse Drugs Act. The report s just what some people think about what the law should be. I have googled Dakta Green and I see that he was caught for drugs in 2010 – a long long time before he started to try to be the leadder of New Lynn electrate in 2011. He is a criminal first and politiician second. Don’t believe the trash that ACLP say about the government affecting political processes – they are making up untrue stories and lying to all the people who listen to them. Bad ACLP stoners.
Mohammed, where do you get your reason of thinking from.
Clearly you drink alcohol
Smoke crack
sniff glue
or worse do all 3.
now now folks we can do with out the put downs…facts are that it is illegal and the law commission is correct in stating change must occur but process is very very slow and revenue is lost as a result,our habits define us so we always put a conservative minister on the portfolio of drug control this seems to placate our fear that an uncontrolled youth backlash may arise like the present problem of alcoholism in teens with violence as a common symptom ,yet the government will not release the law commissions findings until after the election,roll over and take it some more NZ its how we do it best…sorry bout the put down folks guess om human after all
Im a lifelong non-smoker of any substance. If your born with a healthy body its your duty to keep it that way. I believe cannabis should be made legal for those taking it for pain relief.
KILL THE WEED!
MAKE THE STONERS GO BACK TO WORK!
Budz out
Kill the booze!
Booze kills 1000 New Zealanders every year!
Cannabis kills 0 New Zealanders every year!
Cannabis kills 0 Earthlings every year!
Free the weed!
No victim, No crime! I’m sick of how none of us can have our Civil Liberties! Yet we are made criminals for using Gods miracle plant to get well! We have made our government too powerful when we have no civil liberties and the real criminals(Murderers, Rapists and Molesters) run free! They have covered their bases well when most people won’t even listen to PROOF! So much propreganda has been spread through so many years…Teaching our children lies in school!!! Here and everywhere is the PROOF! Wake -Up America! EDUCATE YOURSELVES AND OTHERS!!!
lol enjoy getting jacked from behind
Good man standing up for all us harmless weed smokers,, were so proud of you.
FREE THE WEED,, FTP. dont be a feen, only smoke the green xox
KEEP IT GREEN ! DAKTA is legend !
I am a New Zealand citizen. I do not support cannabis prohibition. I do not condone the criminalisation of people for using and/or growing and/or trading cannabis.
Free Dakta Green. Free all cannabis prisoners. Legalise cannabis.
Dear DAKTA Green
I love that u stand up for us smoker’s.I have a very bad back some time i can walk and some time not.i am in pain all the time some time it is so bad that it will not go a way and i set and cry it is so bad.And i am only 34 year’s old.But when i smoke i do not hurt.The Dr here just give’s me more and more pain med’s here in the USA so please dont stop frighting.
free dakta green!, get the real criminals into jail, like rapers, murderers, animal murderers, etc.
FREEDOOM FOR DAKTA GREEN!!!!!!!!
Right behind ya, good work guys, I’m an insurance broker and keen to help out, give us a bell 021920422
Daktory was making a killing while it was open, and the deals were only ok. Where is the money going?
I have only smoked weed twice in my life and I don’t think it is really for me but I fully support that people should have the right to chose if they smoke weed or not.
Just because the government doesn’t like it or have a stupid shallow way of thinking doesn’t mean they should ban others from doing it.
Freedom of choice!
weed is good.To all haters get off this page.free daktor.Free the good herb
@daktors, jazz & co. – i have gone through your videos and comments — I agree with you 1000%, yet your debating skills are feeble, if you came up against a really skilled debater, your strawmen, derps and false analogies would leave you pwned. I love you, & you are the good guys, but when ever I go to the daktory your too stoned or snobby to enter into debate, either that or like the people here are very quick to shout “personal attack” – this is a very serious debate. If you want to learn it, properly – Fight me on youtube human899 or human453 — anytime.
@John Roberts – I’m not sure what good a debate would do to be honest. You hold to your convictions like its air and we smokers will most likely do the same. This is not a matter of trying to convince/force you to do something you don’t want to, whereas your argument is. Its about freedom.
The ONLY reason your argument holds weight is the law in place at this time. Without it I believe our argument wins mainly because the majority of the problems surrounding marijuana only occur due to the law. For example all possession/grow charges obviously go, gang opportunities arise only because a regular person isn’t allowed to grow their own supply so that goes too.
Marijuana, like most things, isn’t inherently bad. A gun can be used to make war or kill dinner. An objects use is completely dependent on the person using it. How is it that a substance can be discriminated against so intensely on a totally different standard to anything else? Chocolate is delicious but if you eat too much you get fat (not to mention the child slavery involved in production!!!). Energy drinks?, Cigarettes?, Alcohol? Mono sodium glutimate(MSG)?, McDonald’s?
I think the more interesting topic is the who’s and why’s the law is the way it is. I’ve heard and can think of a few good theories but confirming them is obviously extremely difficult. I’m sure you’ve heard a few of these yourself.
Thoughts?
free dakta green. stands up for all the stoners in nz. he doesnt deserve to be locked away. weed is natural, alcohol isnt. wheres the logics in our society ?
@Smoker passing – what i am saying is – if you want the law to be changed as I do (as a daily smoker who has done time for weed), there is no point in talking amongst ourselves, hidden away in a tiny corner on the internet – bring it to youtube where the real debate happens, is in public & where the standard is much higher – these arguments have been had before and by better minds than ours, to be honest most of this is the at level high school pot head (though rhys’s post was good), now for the sake of standard of this argument i am willing to take the position of opposition – and also in order to give you the the traditional advantage of 1st right of reply, i shall begin by saying — we legalize cannabis at great social cost ……………..