An interview with Phil Cathelain of Syndicat Polynesien du Chanvre about Tahiti’s new law that will allow medical use, hemp, CBD, and a trial of tourist-oriented cannabis health resorts, this week on Marijuana Media on 95bFM with Chris Fowlie from NORML and Jonny from bFM Drive – thanks to The Hempstore!

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In the local media this week, aside from John Campbell’s admission on 1News he used to smoke shitty weed as a teenager, there was just the usual parade of depressing evidence pointing to the abject failure of prohibition: two men on trial alleged to have intimidated a small-time cannabis dealer into falling to his death from his 12^th story apartment balcony; Stuff covering the trial of a small-time cocaine dealer who jumped from a motorway overpass to avoid capture by the law; in the ODT the trial of a gunman who shot at a man and a teenage girl over a suspected drug debt; while the NZ Herald and NewstalkZB covered journalist Benedict Collins’ new book on the story behind the meth testing ‘scam’ in which thousands of people were wrongly evicted from social housing the last time National was in power.

Drug expert Dr Chris Wilkins of Massey University said New Zealand was now so “awash” in methamphetamine that Act’s new policy of reversing the ban on pseudoephedrine would have little effect. So far, that’s the only drug- or alcohol-related policy mentioned publicly as…