Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party congratulates Dakta Green and his Auckland Daktory Club membership for heavily pushing cannabis law reform to the fore again in New Zealand after many years of being put on the back burner by establishment, bureaucracy and media.

ALCP totally supports appropriate civil disobedience to raise awareness of glaring anomalies in New Zealand’s justice system, including counter-productive ‘crime prevention’ policing, and highly questionable legal status of marijuana alongside alcohol and tobacco.

Marijuana is NZ’s crucial law and order/community well-being/human rights issue: "The ongoing third-class-citizen status of the nation’s estimated half million marijuana consumers is unacceptable in a civil society."

ALCP members applaud the stance of “Live like it's Legal” and front page coverage in the Sunday News, featuring Dakta Green - who stood for the Party in the 2009 Mt Albert by-election. Dakta has openly operated Auckland’s ground breaking cannabis club since November 2008. “It is inspiring to see determined Daktavists thumbing noses at unjustifiably harsh laws which could see them facing up to 7 years jail.”

Issuing warnings for cannabis possession "effectively decriminalises" the drug, a campaigner says.

Under an Auckland police trial, warnings can be given for offences that carry less than a six-month prison term.

Eligible offences include shoplifting, disorderly behaviour and low-level cannabis possession.

The three month trial in the North Shore police area has been extended to the greater Auckland region for a further six months.

Canterbury's police district commander, Superintendent Dave Cliff, said Christchurch would consider the Auckland results before deciding whether to introduce a similar approach.

ALCP Submission to Law Commission Alcohol Review - 30 October 2009

The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (ALCP) is the only New Zealand political party with a policy that can reverse man made climate change. Neither emission reductions targets or carbon trading schemes will solve the problem. Nor will the establishment of more International Laws. The only answer to the problem is to plant hundreds of thousands of hectares of Cannabis Hemp, at a density of around 300 plants/ square metre, as the ALCP advocate. This could provide for all of New Zealand's energy and fuel needs.

Allowing Police to take DNA Samples from people they 'intend to charge' is a case of Guilty until proven Innocent, according to the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (ALCP).

"This law is a major breach of Human Rights not to mention a completely Fascist and unjustified intrusion into citizens' lives," says party spokesperson Julian Crawford.

After more than thirty years since enactment, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 will face a major challenge when the well known cannabis daktivist, Dakta Green, puts cannabis on trial. “For the first time since the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 came into force, cannabis will be subjected to the scrutiny of the court. My stay of proceedings application will be based on my interpretation of section 9 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990," says Green.

9. Right not to be subject to torture or cruel treatment. Everyone has the right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, degrading or disproportionately severe treatment or punishment. 

This is a major opportunity to challenge the existing cannabis laws.