Pubdate: Mon, 18 Apr 2016
Source: Dominion Post, The (New Zealand)
Copyright: 2016 The Dominion Post
Contact:  http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2550

DUNNE SHUTS DOWN TALK OF DECRIMINALISING CANNABIS

A "change in direction" for New Zealand's drug policy is not a move 
towards cannabis decriminalisation, Associate Health Minister Peter 
Dunne says. Dunne is in New York for a special UN session on drug 
policy, and told TVNZ that the Government would push for a more 
"health-centred" approach. However, that did not mean 
decriminalisation, he said. "There's no majority in Parliament for 
doing that, so that's not going to happen, and people who think that 
that day's just around the corner are sadly forlorn."
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