The world watches
Colorado, Washington and Uruguay have decided to go ahead with allowing the recreational use and sale of cannabis, and the world is watching.
Not what your mum and dad smoked?
Anecdotes abound comparing the mellow weed of the old days with the edgier dope of today. Has cannabis become more potent since the 70s? Rob Zorn ask whether this is so and what implications potent pot might have.
No longer the healthy option
20 years on from the New Zealand Drug Foundation’s first cannabis and health conference, Keri Welham takes a look at Aotearoa’s most widely used illegal drug to see what has changed since 1993.
Nov 1 2013
Cannabis and health: 20 years down the track
Twenty years on from the New Zealand Drug Foundation’s first cannabis and health symposium, Professor Wayne Hall is returning to New Zealand to talk about the health effects of our most popular illegal drug.
Oct 25 2013
The Great Cannabis Debate
Two heavyweight international drug policy experts will be debating whether a legalised market for cannabis is the best option to reduce harm from cannabis.
Oct 16 2013
International symposium to address fake pot
Questions about what exactly is synthetic cannabis and the latest research on pot imitations will be addressed at the New Zealand Drug Foundation’s Cannabis and Health Symposium in November.
Aug 27 2013
New drug policy needed to prevent young New Zealanders dying
A report released today about the deaths of young New Zealanders from poisoning shows the need for a new drug policy, the New Zealand Drug Foundation said today.
About a drug: Heroin
The most infamous member of the opiod family.
Q&A: Kathryn Leafe
CareNZ's new boss talks to Matters of Substance about how she's gone from running treatement centres in prisons, to running the Soweto marathon.