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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]
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.
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 2015, New York Law Professor Michael Perlin, and American drug court researcher, Dr Shannon Carey, came to New Zealand and observed the AODTC in action. Dr Carey filmed the two AODTC judges interacting with participants and said: “I have used the videos in trainings across the United States and internationally as examples of best practices ...
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.
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 ...
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Criminal law in New Zealand is based on English criminal law that the New Zealand parliament initially codified in statute in 1893. [1] Although New Zealand remains a common law jurisdiction, all criminal offences and their penalties are codified in New Zealand statutes.