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Zombie-like Justice System Jails Kelly van Gaalen
Sep 17
2015
The MOJ showing it has no consciousness, and simply going through the motions ruining good honest pot growers lives. At the time of writing this blog post on 17 September, a search on Google for “Kelly van Gaalen” cannabis brings up a huge number of pages covering the story with unique opinion pieces. Here is a selection of what I found today: 30 different domains with articles on the subject, and scroll down for a list of all 28 pages on NZ Herald about this cannabis case. Well now after this blog post goes live, another domain with an article about this travesty of justice.
http://publicaddress.net/hardnews/judicial-caprice-is-no-way-to-pursue-law/
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/281295/cannabis-cases-different,-lawyer-says
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2015/08/the_kelly_van_gaalen_case.html
http://yournz.org/2015/08/11/brown-slams-van-gaalen-prison-sentence/
http://party.cannabis.org.nz/node/44
https://www.facebook.com/freedomforkelly
https://www.change.org/p/new-zealand-parliament-free-kelly-van-gaalen
https://www.facebook.com/normlnz
http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2015/08/is-taking-drugs-a-human-right/
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/legalfundsforkelly
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/cannabisparty/free_kelly_van_gaalen/
https://www.drugfoundation.org.nz/matters-of-substance/august-2015/directors-cut
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/top-stories/a/29217087/calls-for-lighter-sentences-for-cannabis-offences/
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/352295/cannabis-protesters-light-parliament
http://norightturn.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/pointless-waste.html
“It costs nearly $100,000 a year to keep someone in prison. Can anyone really say that that’s money well spent in this case? Can anyone really say that jailing this woman will make us safer, or improve our society? Imprisoning recreational drug users who harm no-one but themselves is simply pointless and wasteful, and the sooner we stop doing it the sooner the police can refocus their resource son real crime.”
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/calls-for-lighter-sentences-for-cannabis-offences/
“Peter Dunne says the new approach on drugs will show compassion, innovation and proportion.”
NZ’s we’ve gone through a period probably from the 1970s where the rhetoric was all about the war on the drugs as we look around all the countries
http://www.ccguide.org/news/shownewsarticle.php?articleid=21077
https://ecannabis.com/news/nz-kelly-van-gaalen-supporters-want-bail-for-cannabis-sentence-stuff-nz/
It has een been covered in a fully German article:
http://www.rollingstoned.nl/11-8-15-wietschandaal-nz-om-kelly-van-gaalen/
“Grof schandaal in Nieuw-Zeeland: wegens het bezit van 684 gram wiet – afkomstig van twee potente buitenplanten in haar tuin – moet de 38-jarige Kelly van Gaalen, moeder van drie kinderen, 2 jaar de gevangenis in. Op sociale media zijn acties gestart om haar te helpen.”
http://www.getfrank.co.nz/editorial/media/pointless-waste
“It costs nearly $100,000 a year to keep someone in prison. Can anyone really say that that’s money well spent in this case? Can anyone really say that jailing this woman will make us safer, or improve our society? Imprisoning recreational drug users who harm no-one but themselves is simply pointless and wasteful, and the sooner we stop doing it the sooner the police can refocus their resource son real crime.”
http://zealandiablog.net.nz/war-on-drugs-the-collateral-damage/
Any economist will tell you that according to his/her textbook all you will achieve by reducing the supply is rising prices. This in turn will lead to more crime to pay for more expensive drugs to feed your habit or just to have a good time. The economists believing in market theory agree that you cannot solve any real or perceived drug problem by fiddling with the supply side. Nobel-Prize Winning Economists: The War On Drugs Is A Catastrophic ‘Billion-Dollar Failure’ reads the headline in Business Insider Australia. “The pursuit of a militarized and enforcement-led global ‘war on drugs’ strategy has produced enormous negative outcomes and collateral damage.”
http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/protest-parliament-today/5/228843
“A group is heading to Parliament today to protest against the imprisonment of Kelly van Gaalen and to call for cannabis to be legalised in New Zealand.”
http://andragogytheory.com/2015/08/10/many-examples-of-drug-sentencing-inconsistency/
http://yournz.org/2015/08/11/many-examples-of-drug-sentencing-inconsistency/
http://www.wakeupnz.net/alcohol-v-cannabis-do-laws-reflect-harm-in-society/
“Police had no evidence of dealing for profit, and the judge jailed her on the basis of supply simply because of the amount she possessed.”
https://nz.newshub.org/kaikohe-rallies-after-woman-jailed-cannabis-supply-18026032.html
List of all 28 NZ Herald articles mentioning Kelly van Gaalen case:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11507137
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=1503450
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11506291
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11503426
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nicholas-jones/news/headlines.cfm?a_id=715
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz-government/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=144
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=1
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/front-page-top-stories/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=698
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11501957
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northland-age/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503399&objectid=11500163
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northland-age/opinion/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=1503399
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northland-age/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=1503402
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northland-age/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503399&objectid=11498919
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11495615
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/brian-rudman/news/headlines.cfm?a_id=1
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=466
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=280
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/drug-abuse/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=181
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11496445
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northland-age/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503399&objectid=11496529
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northland-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503402&objectid=11496509
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11496164
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11494203
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northland-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503402&objectid=11495335
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503411&objectid=11494630
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/opinion/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=1503411
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11491031
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11411625
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11408241
http://northernnews.realviewdigital.com/default.aspx?iid=125595&startpage=page0000001#folio=1
In NZ Kelly van Gaalen supporters want bail for cannabis sentence – 2yrs prison for two plants http://t.co/Y1Q75sXoWX
— Julian Buchanan (@julianbuchanan) August 10, 2015
This article is not related to the Kelly van Gaalen case, but is interesting to note it shows high cannabis use in NZ:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10893332
New Zealand Drug Detection Agency workplace testing figures show 6784 workplace drug tests were conducted in the Bay of Plenty region last year, of which 8 per cent were “non-negative”.