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.
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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.