Nov 9 2013
Social and economic factors behind Māori cannabis use
Speakers at the New Zealand Drug Foundations cannabis and health symposium will be shedding more light than heat on the complex issues around the use of cannabis by Māori.
Nov 4 2013
Drink driving drop good news
The New Zealand Drug Foundation supports the Government’s move to lower the allowable blood alcohol limit from 80 to 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood for those over 20.
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.