Aug 25 2011
Alcohol select committee continues to disappoint communities
The Drug Foundation today expressed surprise that the Justice and Electoral Committee recommended only tinkering to the Alcohol Reform Bill, saying that many thousands of submitters had expected much greater improvements to the Bill.
Mythbusters: Dope driving: I'm a safer driver when I'm stoned - crap or fact?
Many pot smokers who smoke and drive will say they're fine to get behind the wheel. Mythbusters looks at the evidence to see whether this is really so.
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.