The Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 haunts the NZ Drug Foundation’s biennial parliamentary symposium like a body buried in the Beehive’s foundations.
Exorcisms have been tried. The Law Commission review in 2010 found the law “fails to respond appropriately to the health and addiction issues which often underpin illicit drug use”. Then-prime minister John Key and his justice minister, Simon Power, responded to its proposals for
