Viewpoints: Should New Zealand introduce drug courts?
Drug courts are effective in helping offenders face up to their addictions and get the help they need. Or are they just an expensive waste of time? You decide.
Guest editorial: Drug courts - there is a better way
Gerald Waters lost a dear friend to a repeat drunk driver and became bewildered at our justice system's failure to address substance use as a root cause of so much crime. He now wants a drug court in New Zealand.
Playing Russian roulette
Seems the inventor of the psychoactive chemicals found in synthetic cannabis products has little nice to say about the profiteering purveyors of these untested chemical compounds.
Mob Mumzys moving and shaking
Mongrel Mob women in Porirua are taking positive steps to make better life choices in an environment where drinking and drug taking are the norm.
The benefit in doubt
Welfare beneficiaries who use alcohol and drugs are likely to be targeted under a new, tougher regime if recommendations by the Welfare Working Group are introduced. The government-appointed group has found the current system is too permiss
Jul 14 2011
No time for alcohol law reform delays
The Justice and Electoral Select Committee is still deliberating on the Alcohol Reform Bill. They say it’s proving and enormous challenge and the deadline for reporting back to Parliament has been pushed out from June until the end of Augus
Jun 26 2011
Opinion - Synthetic cannabis
It’s a glaring and obvious anomaly that substances like cannabis are illegal in New Zealand while “synthetic cannabis” – that has much the same effect – is openly for sale in dairies and service stations.
Jun 6 2011
Opinion - Politicians need courage to achieve drug law reform
The Law Commission’s report on drug law reform is timely, smart and welcome. Now our politicians need the courage to respond.
Viewpoints - Should ibogaine be an approved drug treatment?
In our third segment looking objectively at both sides of a contentious issue, we consider whether ibogaine should be approved as a treatment for withdrawal and dependence.