Chris Fowlie warns that if you've made cannabis brownies, or tinctures, or do any processing of it, you're now at risk of being charged with manufacture of a class B drug;

https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/17199561/marijuana-media-with-chris-fowlie-october-30-2025

The MODA drug classification system is such bullshit. You know what else is in class B? Cocaine, one of the 5 most physically and societally dangerous recreational drugs in use, according to the famous Lancet paper by David Nutt et al;

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61462-6/abstract

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#drugs #DrugLawReform

This is what a recent NZ Drug Foundation report said we need for drug policy in Aotearoa, and I agree wholeheartedly.

Politicians across successive govts have consistently shown that they can't be objective about anything to do with drugs. Too often drug harms are increased as part of "tough on crime" grandstanding, despite the evidence about what actually reduces harm.

We need a nonpartisan, evidence-focused body with powers to determine drug policy.

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#DrugLawReform #NZDrugFoundation