Justice Minister Andrew Little, responsible for the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill, said discussion of people consuming 14 grams in a day was “fantastical”.
“I know people are saying, ‘Look, 14 grams means 21, or 42, or even more kind of joints a day’.
“It’s a bit like saying, ‘somebody who goes off to buy a bottle of vodka at 7 o’clock on a Friday night, is going to consume it there and then’.
“Find me somebody who has smoked 42 joints in a day and I’ll take the objection seriously,” he said. Read more