A 64-year-old man who grew cannabis for pain relief and supplied his friends has donated $5000 to the Salvation Army as part of his penalty. Arthur Leslie Richardson brought a bank cheque made out to the church when he arrived for sentencing at Hawera District Court, after earlier pleading guilty to cultivating cannabis, possession of Read more
Cannabis was the only ‘medicine’ that helped his wife’s pain, and relieved the uncontrollable and agonising muscle spasms that MS sufferers endure said visiting Irish assisted dying campaigner Tom Curran. He was speaking to 80 people in Nelson’s Fairfield House at a meeting organised by Nelson Options, the local chapter of voluntary euthanasia group Exit Read more
The Uniting Church has urged the Western Australian government to consider legalising cannabis for medicinal use. At its annual meeting, the church’s synod in Western Australia voted in favour of changes to state law so doctors could prescribe medicinal cannabis, which would be administered under supervision. Medicinal cannabis has a high proportion of cannabidiol, which Read more