Photo: Getty ImagesThe Government is being told the time has come for a major overhaul of the drug laws. Dozens of social service and health organisations - including the Medical Association, Public Health Association and Māori health providers - want drug use to be treated as a health issue. Now more than 25 health, addiction and social justice organisations say the drug laws are not fit for purpose and want them overhauled. But McKree Jansen said there had been no corresponding fall in drug prosecutions. A recent survey by UMR for the Helen Clark Foundation, which campaigned for drug law reform in the cannabis referendum, found 69 percent supported legalisation or decriminalisation.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 11, 2021 22:07 UTC