For the 21st year NORML presents J Day: Saturday May 4th, 2013, from high noon.

J Day Auckland 2013

J Day 2013 – A4 poster

• Auckland – Albert Park (in association with Jafa Mafia and The Hempstore)
  • Stage timetable:
    11am WrongWay Ray
    11.30 J Red
    12. Rich Gilbert
    12.30 Lowe 1
    13.00 Azbo
    13.30 Kola (Drunk Elelephant)
    14.00 Fj (Jugglin Crew)
    14.30 DJ Exile + MC Projectile
    15.00 Issa
    15.30 DJ Locksteady
    16:00 BULLETPROOF & DUTTY RANX
    16.30 Jafa Mafia till close

• Tauranga – Yatton Park – in association with Project 420 (https://www.facebook.com/events/602266503121710/)
• Paeroa – 4:20 at the Bottle
• Taupo – Northern Domain, Tongariro St – in association with Dads for Marijuana (https://www.facebook.com/events/363083547144294/)
• Hastings – Library Steps – in association with CLEAR (https://www.facebook.com/NZCLR)
• New Plymouth – The Landing
• Wellington – Frank Kitts Park
• Christchurch – Cranmer Square (venue change) In association with ALCP (https://www.alcp.org.nz) and GreenCross SI
• Dunedin – The Octagon – in association with Otago Norml (https://www.facebook.com/otago-NORML)

Plus 200 more cities all around the world, all calling for an end to cannabis prohibition!

Come along and show your support for NORML’s three campaign goals:

• Treat cannabis as a health issue, not a crime
• Safe, legal access for medicinal cannabis patiens
• A regulated, taxable market for cannabis and other low risk drugs

J Day features music, stalls and a positive vibe. No alcohol or dogs please. Strictly R18. Stallholders – see our contact page.

Sell Weed Not SOEs Poster PDF

“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.” – Albert Einstein quote on Hemp

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The report examines the budgetary implications of legalizing marijuana – taxing and regulating it like other goods – in all fifty states and at the federal level, and estimates that legalizing marijuana would save $7.7 billion per year in government expenditure on enforcement of prohibition. $5.3 billion of this savings would accrue to state and local governments, while $2.4 billion would accrue to the federal government.

Miron Report (PDF) 2005

Today, Stephen McIntyre hung himself with a rope, because the Police raided The Auckland Greencross, and then had him up in the courts for opening NZ’s  first non-profit charitable trust authorized by the NZ government to help patients to obtain cannabis for medicine. Cannabis a natural plant, used as medicine in Israel for 19 years, U.S.A for 16 years and mentioned in every pharmacological text produced in the past 2,000 years and scientifically proven for many treatments.

New Zealand has the highest arrest and incarceration rate of cannabis users in the world. Yet many of those arrested are young people possessing small amounts for personal use. Is personal use of cannabis really a ‘crime’? And wouldn’t Police time be better spent focusing on more serious matters?

Perhaps New Zealand would have a lower suicide rate if cannabis was legalised / de-criminalised? I think so.

“New Zealand has lost a peaceful and gentle man who advocated quietly for the sort of reforms that have halved the number of drug users in Portugal over the last decade,” said Dr McGrath, who works at two alcohol and drug clinics in the lower North Island.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1109/S00134/government-pays-lip-service-to-needs-of-medical-cannabis.htm

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1005/S00243.htm

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1011/S00291/new-leadership-for-cannabis-law-reform-campaign.htm

Obituary: http://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=stephen-lindsay-mcintyre&pid=158712377&fhid=12549

Stephen Lindsay McINTYRE Obituary Guest Book Currently, the Guest Book for Stephen Lindsay McINTYRE is available for viewing, but not accepting entries until Wednesday, 25 July 2012. View McINTYRE, Stephen Lindsay. On 22 July, 2012 suddenly at home; in his 48th year. Dearly loved husband of Reiko, loved father of Terumi and Takumi, loved son of Lillias and William McIntyre, brother of Ken, Stuart, Bruce, and Lorraine, uncle to his many nieces and nephews. A Service will be held at 85 Grafton Road, Grafton, Auckland on Friday 27 July at 1.30pm. Battersby Funeral Services Ltd Ph 09-828-5113 Published in The New Zealand Herald on July 24, 2012

Miscellaneous:

Shame on you Peter Dunne, you are creating more pain in the world: http://www.libertarianz.org.nz/libz-appalled-by-death-of-stephen-mcintyre/

Overcrowded prisons and high suicide rate: http://tumeke.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/beasts-from-blenheim-and-creatures-from.html

Going Green - Legalizing Marijuana Is The Best Thing For USA

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You personally today have the unique and once in a lifetime ability to change not just the course of one mans life – mine – but to also change the entire course of NZ legal history itself by contributing a precedent setting legal case due to Jury Nullification! How come? Why is this case gonna change the course of law?

That is because, like it or not, laws are created three ways:

1. creatively by politicians
2. destructively by judges
3. and also destructively by juries like you (potentially) today in the appeal court!!!

You as a citizen and jury-member have the right to stand up and say, no fuck it, SecretStoner has a fucking point, this law is a motherfucking ass, screw this, fuck what you say, give the man a break, we find the defendant…. not guilty!

“Juries were instituted to protect citizens from the tyranny of government”

as quoted from this interesting article. Also check this article about a Jury that was outraged when they discovered they didn’t get the chance to nullify at conviction.

Clay S. Conrad defines “jury nullification” this way:

Jurors in criminal trials have the right to refuse to convict if they believe that a conviction would be in some way unjust… If juries are nothing more than rubber stamps, they are no limit on government’s power to pass unjust, immoral, or oppressive laws, and citizens are entirely at the mercy of sometimes jaded or corrupt courts and legislatures.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163877,00.html#ixzz1wugP4mdY

Jury Nullification in New Zealand

This Not-PC blog is decent and reminds us of the Waihopai verdict.

And for christs sake, look, why be all up and anctious about a herb which, well look this picture says it all…

BE HAPPY OK - DONT BE GOING PUTTING NICE GUYS LIKE ME IN JAIL

I just wanna pay taxes and contribute to helping the environment and making some great music. Not sit in jail all day getting depressed about how cool my life used to be (and it was wicked) and how maybe I should kill myself cos now my lifes totally power-fucked. OK? Sort it. Power in your hand guvna. Do it jury man. Do me and your country proud. Do it for yourself.

Also, the only party with a greater increase was the Greens with an exactly 200% increase. Considering that the green party is powered by the awesomely intelligent and talented Metiria Turei, who is anti-prohibition, perhaps you can say this is a strong signal the public are giving the government about legalisation?

We just saw NZ’s shit-est election with the lowest ever voter turnout ever since records began back in the 1800s.

Official results from the NZ 2008 general election, sorted by votes:

Smokescreen raises the subject of drug policies in effect worldwide, focusing on their social and political implications in countries such as Brazil, England, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Argentina and the US. Its premise is a rethink of countries’ prohibitionist drug policies. The confronting documentary discusses some of the consequences of such drug laws, such as violence and corruption, reaching unacceptable levels.

Through interviews in Brazil and abroad with physicians, researchers, leaders, policemen and representatives of civil movements, the filmmaker and journalist Rodrigo Mac Niven introduces a new vision of the early 21st century. It is a documentary that questions prohibition, and discusses the complexities of a taboo subject with honesty and transparency.

Screening times:

Friday 23 September 6:30pm Wellington Paramount Theatre

Sunday 25 September 3:00pm Wellington Paramount Theatre

Tuesday 27 September 6:30pm Wellington Paramount Theatre

Friday 28 October 6:30pm Auckland Rialto Cinemas Newmarket

Sunday 30 October 3:00pm Auckland Rialto Cinemas Newmarket

Tuesday 01 November 6:30pm Auckland Rialto Cinemas Newmarket