Articles with category: Article
The truth we all need to hear
Korero Pono JustSpeak exhibition: Even the shortest prison sentence can be a life sentence for some.
Introducing He Korowai Aroha, Health Not Handcuffs
A new movement called Health Not Handcuffs has been launched ahead of the cannabis referendum, calling for drug laws that give people a hand up instead of a lock up
Legalisation: the chance to right wrongs
NZ has a golden opportunity to right many of the wrongs caused by cannabis prohibition, says Tess Nicol
Q&A: Jenny Valentish
enny Valentish is a journalist and novelist. Her latest book Woman of Substances is part memoir and part investigation into the relationship between gender, trauma and addiction
Living Sober 3.0
Changes afoot for Living Sober community
Needle exchanges at 30: Looking back, moving forward
New Zealand Needle Exchange Executive Director Kathryn Leafe takes us back to the early days of needle exchange in New Zealand, detailing how far we’ve come, and what’s still left to do.
Once an addict always an addict, right?
Chloe King uses her own addiction and recovery experience to issue a forthright challenge to some of the common ‘armchair diagnosing’ beliefs and terminology we may have inherited from AA.
Good data, the devil and the details
Rob Zorn talks about the importance of capturing good data both before and after legalisation, to monitor health and economic trends
Q&A: Costing drug policy options
Economist Shamubeel Eaqub: A health-based approach to drug policy is not only the most compassionate, it's the best economic choice.
Global leaders call to regulate drugs
Kali Mercier gives a brief rundown of a recent Global Commission on Drug Policy report and its implications for the War on Drugs abroad and potentially here at home.
The best place in the world to be a child
After the Ha¯paitia te Oranga Tangata summit in August, Dennis O’Reilly started thinking about how to address the wicked criminal justice problems we face.
Big Cannabis is rising high
With medicinal cannabis legal in the majority of states and more and more legalising recreational use, opportunities now abound for a wide variety of new entrepreneurs and established big business.