Radio NZ News 7 April 2020 Some women can now access early abortion services without leaving home during lockdown, due to a law change that came into play just days …
Stoners cheered when Canada legalised cannabis. How did it go so wrong?
The Guardian 5 April 2020 Family First Comment: An accurate assessment – and a warning for NZ: * Growers have gone bust, and the black market is still thriving. * …
Study suggests marijuana may impair female fertility
EurekaAlert 2 April 2020 Family First Comment: Female eggs exposed to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, have an impaired ability to produce viable embryos, and are significantly less likely …
Step Closer to Roadside Cannabis Testing
Technology Networks 31 March 2020 Family First Comment: Good news – especially if NZ makes foolish decision to legalise dope. “Scientists now report that they are one step closer to …
Cannabis users encouraged to take a break over lockdown period due to COVID-19 health risks
NewsHub 31 March 2020 Family First Comment: The health risks were already there before the coronavirus! Users are now just more at risk. Time to go DrugFree – for health’s …
New study shows a third of Kiwi students have tried vaping
TVNZ One News 31 March 2020 Family First Comment: And if we legalise cannabis and put out the welcome mat to the marijuana vaping market, we’ll be in big trouble! …
THC – Harmful even at low doses?
National Families in Action 25 March 2020 Family First Comment: Last week’s issue of The Lancet Psychiatry published a meta-analysis of 15 studies that demonstrate a single dose of THC induces …
Big cannabis in the UK: is industry support for wider patient access motivated by promises of recreational market worth billions?
BMJ 18 March 2020 Family First Comment: The British Medical Journal has uncovered links between companies, campaign groups, and individuals lobbying for wider patient access to cannabis for medical use and …
SAY NOPE TO DOPE: Vincent’s story – As an ex-cannabis user, I’ll be voting NO.
Starting off with cannabis as a young person in West Auckland, Vincent’s weekend use became everyday use. And then became all day use. He’d do what was called wake and …
Which MPs vote on Referendums based on political expediency, rather than principle
Here’s a list of 49 MPs who voted for a Referendum on euthanasia because they supported euthanasia and knew they had to vote for a referendum to get the law …