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| I am 45 years-old, born in Picton, a single father of two boys (5,6 years-old) I am an artist. I moved to Australia in 1978 where I worked and study and completed, a university degree in visual arts at the Griffith university, Queensland. I returned to New Zealand in 1998, and have lived in Golden Bay since, and at present I am building a straw bale house. I have been outspoken on the cannabis debate through letters to the editor and have also written Helen Clark asking why I can not buy a license to grow a few cannabis plants in my garden for personal use for which I received a personal reply. I am currently trying to obtain the operational costs from the Police and Army for their cannabis eradication programme they run each year, this is at the Ombudsman stage. If we had been serious about our environment we would have placed within the Kyoto accord a law that ensured every new car produced would have the ability to run on ethanol. Then countries could supply nearly all their fuel demands. Cannabis is four times more suited to producing ethanol and bio-diesel than any other plant. Why not, instead of using our surplus moneys for tax cuts/credits, use it to invest in bio-fuel development and production, now. I would rather have affordable fuel than tax cuts, which would be eaten up by high petrol prices anyway. |
Steven
Wilkinson,