Cannabis-on-campus rule to stay
The Otago University Students Association has failed to overturn a rule allowing students to smoke marijuana on the campus.
In 2006 the Association passed a motion declared the grounds a cannabis prohibition-free zone.
Association president Harriet Geoghegan today attempted to rescind that, in favour of stating the Association does not condone any actions the breach New Zealand law.
The motion was voted down, following lengthy discussion at the Student’s General Meeting.
- NEWSTALK ZB
Three cheers… Otago NORML..
now you need to extend it, to prohibition-free Aotearoa
Kia-ora
Nice work guys, you tell em!
I don’t understand people who treat statutes – Acts of Parliament – as if they are laws of nature. Statute laws are majority-agreed conventions that are add-ons to the basic rights that make up common law, If the letter of statute law is in conflict with people’s fundamental rights, common law overrules it, and people who ignore such unjust laws are engaged in lawful rebellion.
If the NZ Parliament followed the example of some European countries which have passed statutes banning Moslem women from veiling their faces, I would hope to see the Student Association at Otago pass a motion against this, opposing the notion that the state can dictate to people what they should wear. Like the OUSA motion supporting people’s right to choose to smoke cannabis, such a motion would go against statute law, but would be upholding common law, and human rights.
BTW Legislating that women can’t cover their heads or faces is no different to legislating that every women cannot cover their legs, and must wear a miniskirt. Some background on this issue can be found here:
http://www.themodernreligion.com/women/w_veil_polmet.htm
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