| New: September '05:
People often say to us: "But you're only a single issue
party": - This does not do the cannabis reform issue justice,
because the ALCP minimimum programme impacts beneficially across
all areas of governance, in areas of health, education, justice,
law and order, race relations, economy and environment.... we
are fixing what's broken.
See our Intersectorial
policy
ALCP MISSION STATEMENT
The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party exists to legalise cannabis
for recreational, spiritual, medicinal and industrial purposes;
to empower people to work together for peace and true justice; and
to institute a proper and just balance between the power of the
state and the rights and dignity of the individual. We believe adults
have the right to freedom of choice unless that choice harms other
people or the planet.
POLICY MINIMUM PROGRAMME
• Immediately tolerate adults’ personal possession and
cultivation.
• Establish regulated R18 cannabis commerce, like alcohol
and tobacco. (Policy Council fine tunes ‘best practice’)
• Make provision for expungement of cannabis convictions.
• Establish therapeutic and medicinal applications of cannabis.
• Enable full-scale cannabis-hemp production and utilisation.
POSITIVE PROGRESS FOR NEW ZEALAND: our policy
will:
• redirect hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars from maintaining
unworkable and discriminatory laws. The money will be redistributed
to sectors of need, eg Community, Health, Education and Employment;
• improve access to health services, and greatly increase
credibility of drug education by removing double standards.
• deglamorise marijuana, decrease availability to adolescents,
improve health promotion generally;
• slash crime and restore law and order and respect for rule
of law;
• encourage community participation, and set a new standard
for good governance;
• boost the economy via cannabis commerce, and create jobs
by developing hemp industry;
• be of immeasurable benefit ecologically - full-scale hemp
cultivation will save forests, reduce pollution and greenhouse emissions,
and provide for the basics of life – Food, Shelter, Clothes,
Fuel and Medicine.
ALCP 1996 Foundation documents support the principles of partnership
in New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi.
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