Comments on: Planting the Seed for Legal Pot

By: DMV

DMV — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:35:47 +0000

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By: Dakta Tree

Dakta Tree — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:05:31 +0000

Come on New Zealand we where the first to let women vote, we are a nucler free democratic society where you can practically have gay marriage with a civil union, you can legally have sex with a prostatue, you can smoke a paket of smokes a day, drink dozen beers a day, put your whole weeks pay on red and yet you still can’t have a joint. Come on New Zealand lets Legelise.

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:22:27 +0000

It’s great to see some up-to-date thinking going on, and I really support it.

Still, it’s a shame that some people are using propaganda to push the “drugs are bad, mm’kay” message.

By: Another MildGreen Daktavist

Another MildGreen Daktavist — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:58:17 +0000

Sheese, we have better rules than California. We just havent decided to put Cannabis in them yet.

Besides, GST (as an imputation tax) is a far fairer way to garner the ‘pot’ential profits from cultivation, distribution and sale. California could ‘wish’ for such a goods and services tax take! Whereas we already have it.

Start thinking about what rules we might use and consider what we already have in place ‘ready made’. see http://www.lexisnexis.co.nz/products/bulletins/legislation/nz_regulation_SR-2008-373.pdf

By: Hybrid

Hybrid — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:39:48 +0000

Good to see – I’m sure Cali will go ahead with it. After all, a number of very rich and influential people that live in Cali are pro-weed. I hope they set a good example, eg, violent crime down, lots of tax raised, and the herb regulated and improved to the point where (like alcohol) it is no longer associated with “drugs”.

PS – Any word on DG’s case?

By: Dakta SiFFiN

Dakta SiFFiN — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:49:36 +0000

Agreed, New Zealand need to implement the same legislation as above,
Tax on this will be huge and great for New Zealand, plus the Drug Education will help prevent abuse. good work to Mr Terminator

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:27:32 +0000

So now it moves onto a Health Committee: “The measure next goes to the Health Committee, but proponents worried it would not be acted on by that panel by Friday’s deadline, which would require the proposal to be reintroduced to be heard this year by the full Assembly.” – damn I hope they get this in time. These quotes astonished me though and made me so angry:

“We’re going to legalize marijuana, we’re going to tax it and then we’re going to educate our kids about the harm of drugs. You’ve got to be kidding me,” Gilmore said. “What’s next? Are we going to legalize methamphetamines, cocaine?”

The measure was opposed in testimony today by several police chiefs and law enforcement officials including Bob Cooke, former president of the California Narcotics Officers Assn., who predicted it would lead to an increase in crime. “The mere consideration of an attempt to trade human misery for tax dollars smacks of the cynical throwing away of countless human beings,” Cooke told the committee.

Jesus christ, talk about conflict of interest, of course the only people that are profiting from this ‘war on drugs’ are going to raise hell about it. Spouting completely baseless remarks, shoddy opinions that shouldn’t even be taken into consideration. Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/assembly-committee-oks-bill-to-legalize-marijuana.html

I’m glad it has gone this far though, it’s 1 step further for the world and I hope that it does pass and once it does, more and more states follow suit and eventually New Zealand can play ball too.