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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 ...
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 ]
Drug and precursor laws Germany: Anlage I [8] Anlage II [9] Anlage III [10] Sweden: Narkotikastrafflagen. Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter om förteckningar över narkotika [11] Lagen om förbud mot vissa hälsofarliga varor. List of substances [12] Kontroll av narkotikaprekursorer [permanent dead link ] (up to date list of laws) New Zealand ...
List of acts of the New Zealand Parliament (1912–1928) 16 years 3: United: List of statutes of New Zealand (1928–1931) 3 years 4: United–Reform coalition: List of statutes of New Zealand (1931–1935) 4 years 5: First Labour: List of statutes of New Zealand (1935–1949) 14 years 6: First National: List of statutes of New Zealand (1949 ...
During its second reading, the revised Bill incorporated several changes including extending the use of medicinal cannabis to all needing palliative care; require that regulations for a Medicinal Cannabis Scheme be set up within a year after the law comes into effect; permit the use of cannabis varieties already available in New Zealand to be ...
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 ...
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.