Toolkit on the Misuse of Drugs Act Review – Controlling and Regulating Drugs

Produced by the New Zealand Drug Foundation to assist people and organisations to make submissions to the Law Commission.

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Feel free to contact us if you have any further questions or concerns. The main contact is Catherine Milburn (catherine.milburn@drugfoundation.org.nz or 04 801 6303).

About this toolkit

This toolkit, produced by the New Zealand Drug Foundation, will help people to have their say on the Law Commission’s Misuse of Drugs Act Review issues paper – Controlling and Regulating Drugs.

It provides a summary of the key options outlined by the Law Commission, and also signals the Drug Foundation’s preferences.  Where the Drug Foundation states its views we make that clear to you – you don’t have to agree with our preferences – you should form your own view.

This toolkit should be read in conjunction with the Law Commission’s summary paper and also specific chapters of the full 400-page issues paper.

The structure of this toolkit follows the structure of the issues paper and summary document.  For most of the questions asked in the summary document we provide comment and state our preferences.

The first 7 chapters of the issues paper (part 1) provide context and background. No specific questions have been asked. But they are still useful chapters to read if you have time. Our toolkit provides a summary.

The rest of the issues paper, chapters 8-16 (part 2), is where the important stuff is.  It’s in these chapters where the Law Commission outline options for changing the law, and where they ask specific questions. Our toolkit provides more detail on each of those chapters – we also outline the Drug Foundation’s point-of-view.