A new bill allowing terminally ill people a defence for using illicit cannabis has passed its third reading, edging closer to being assented into law
The bill sets up a defence within statute that allows those close to death within palliative care to use and consume the illicit substance
The NZ government also passed laws recently allowing for the smoking of loose leaf cannabis in public, however the National’s associate health spokesperson Shane Reti stated this framework for this scheme is lazy and dangerous, saying they support medicinal Cannabis but oppose smoking of loose leaf cannabis which is not a medicine.