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The Misuse of Drugs Act was passed by the New Zealand Parliament into law in 1975. [1]On 11 December 2018, the Labour-led Coalition Government passed the Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis) Amendment Act, which amended the existing law to permit terminally ill patients to use marijuana without risk of prosecution.
The purpose of the Act is to regulate the availability of psychoactive substances in New Zealand to protect the health of, and minimise harm to, individuals who use psychoactive substances. [1] The law seeks to make manufacturers test and prove their products are low-risk before they can be sold. [2] [3] [4]
Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug in New Zealand and the fourth-most widely used recreational drug after caffeine, alcohol and tobacco. [17] The usage by those aged between 16–64 is 13.4%, the ninth-highest level of consumption in the world, [ 1 ] and 15.1% of those who smoked cannabis used it ten times or more per month. [ 17 ]
In 2011, the Law Commission reviewed New Zealand’s Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, and recommended that specialist drug courts should be established. [ 5 ] Judges Lisa Tremewan and Ema Aitken, who are both passionate about therapeutic jurisprudence , were appointed to run the two AODTC courts in Auckland and Waitakere which opened in 2012.
The cannabis law reform organization NORML New Zealand issued a submission voicing support for descheduling CBD products but allowing a wider 5% tolerance for other cannaboids to improve production and affordability; broadening the defence to include patients with terminal illnesses, chronic or debilitating medical conditions where the doctor ...
In New Zealand, the presumption of supply is a rebuttable presumption in criminal law which is governed by the New Zealand Misuse of Drugs Act 1975.It provides an assumption in drug-possession cases that if a person is found with more than a specified amount of a controlled drug, they are in possession of it for the purpose of supply or sale.
Police in New Zealand have so far accounted for 41 chunks of methamphetamine enclosed in candy wrappers — each a potentially lethal amount of the drug — that were unknowingly distributed by an ...
New Zealand: Illegal (Never Prescribed) Illegal (Never Prescribed) Illegal (Never Prescribed) Illegal (Never Prescribed) Methamphetamine is a Class "A" or Schedule 1 controlled drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975. [20] The maximum penalty for production and distribution is imprisonment for life.