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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 Act was brought in as a reaction to widespread concerns [8] over the 2005 deregulation, or decriminalisation, of selling psychoactive substances in New Zealand with the introduction of section 62 in the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2005 and the Misuse of Drugs (Restricted Substances) Regulations 2008. [9] These laws made psychoactive ...
Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997; Food libel laws; Food Quality Protection Act; Generally recognized as safe; Global Food Security Act of 2009; Kevin's Law; Mandatory country-of-origin labeling of food sold in the United States; Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act; Public Law 114-214, regulating GMO food labeling
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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
The liquor laws of New Zealand begin with the Colonisation of New Zealand and the implementation of English Common Law to New Zealand between 1840 and 1842, when New Zealand was jurisdictionally part of the Colony of New South Wales. [10] In 1842 the first licensing system was introduced to New Zealand.
The FDA’s recent ban on Red Dye No. 3, set to take effect by 2027 for foods and 2028 for drugs, marks a significant step in addressing safety concerns over artificial food dyes in the U.S. food ...