Cracking good prevention
We know cannabis can cause harm, so how do we prevent people from using cannabis or at least delay the time they start? Keri Welham investigates
Driving high
Cannabis and cars don’t mix. We know pot causes impairment, but just how much, and is it even that dangerous?
Reducing cannabis health harms
There is a wide spectrum of views on how much harm cannabis can cause. Rob Zorn investigates
Fake it till you make it
It looks like cannabis, it has cannabis in the name, but is synthetic cannabis really cannabis? James Robinson investigates.
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.