Photo: NZ HeraldAssociate Health Minister Peter Dunne says he has changed his mind about a formal policy to protect terminally ill cannabis users from being bothered by police. Mr Dunne said the policy in New Zealand was that people who were using cannabis for medicinal purposes were not pursued by police. A triple amputee with phantom pains was prosecuted by police last week for using medical cannabis in his own garden on the West Coast. The police raided her medical cannabis that was the one thing that was giving her a cure and letting her keep going. It was not known whether police were only turning a blind eye to terminally ill cannabis users, or whether the informal approach was applied more broadly.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 05, 2017 05:03 UTC