Ex-cops caution NZ on medicinal marijuana after testing ‘farcical’ California system
TVNZ One News 21 June 2016
Family First Comment: Timely warning through the smoke-screen of decriminalising marijuana
Two former New Zealand police officers who went under cover filming how easy it is to buy medicinal marijuana in California warn this country needs to proceed with absolute caution if it’s to legalise medicinal marijuana.
Kirk Hardy and his colleague Glen Dobson run a workplace drug testing programme and say nothing would be better for their business than if cannabis laws were relaxed in New Zealand.
But they say New Zealanders have no idea that one of the world’s best known models for medicinal marijuana in California is rife with abuse.
“It’s only when you start peeling back the layers and having a look at it, that you see it for what it is. It’s farcical,” said Mr Hardy, chief executive of The Drug Detection Agency.
At a clinic in San Francisco, a receptionist took Mr Dobson’s name, hotel address and driver’s licence, and listed any ailments and current medication.
He had his blood pressure checked, paid money and told a doctor via an iPad, he had “recently started to get slightly more frequent headaches” and was finding it “a bit difficult to get to sleep”.
Keith Graves, a US drug education consultant, says the medicinal marijuana system is an embarrassment.
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