Let's talk about pot
Bud, chronic, dak, dope, ganja, grass, maryjane, reefer and skunk. We all know the slang terms for cannabis. Half of us have tried it, and one-in-eight uses it regularly.
But is cannabis a glorified gateway to harder drugs and suicide, or some sort of herbal cure-all, benignly bestowed by Mother Nature? Should we be selling it from Courtenay Place cafes, or cracking down harder on cannabis smokers and growers?
The New Zealand Drug Foundation wants to start a national conversation about cannabis. We think it’s high time we took cannabis out of the ‘too-hard basket’ and talked about it sensibly and honestly. We’re making a start:
- It's high time we talk about pot - Our press release starting the conversation
- Starting to talk about pot - Introduction to the conversation from the Drug Foundation
- Cannabis policy challenges - Wayne Hall, University of Queensland, Australia
- Time to end cannabis prohibition - Chris Fowlie, NORML
- Reforming cannabis penalty regimes to reduce harm – Simon Lenton, National Drug Research Institute, Australia
- No chance of cannabis liberalisation in short term – Matthew Hooten, political commentator
- Cannabis and its veil of deceit – Michael Bird
- Pain, pot and politics - Cover story about medicinal cannabis from our February 2007 Matters of Substance
- Sense and sinsemilla - Marilyn Head
- Home away from drugs - Chris Kalin
- Caught with cannabis: A stoner or a scholar - Trish Gledhill
- When truth and balance go to pot - Ross Bell
- (Black) Market Forces - David Young
- High in the Saddle: cannabis-affected driving - Geoff Noller
