Chlöe Swarbrick is fronting a consultation on cannabis policy to mark the 5 year anniversary of the 2020 referendum on full legalisation;
https://action.greens.org.nz/cannabis_anniversary
This is both principled and clever.
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Cannabis prohibition continues to do avoidable harm to our people and communities. Getting reform back on the agenda in the leadup to an election is sound political leadership.
But this is also a good way for the Greens to reconnect with the fringes, from whence they came, but from whom they became somewhat alienated in the Shaw years;
https://strypey.dreamwidth.org/6069.html
Also with younger people, who tend to be attracted to debating edgier policy areas like drug regulation.
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@strypey They've got to watch out also because cannabis legalization can be a very effective way for mushy centrist corporatist parties to appear to flank a progressive party from the left on one high profile issue that will get loads of media coverage. Their overall policies will still be kind of crap, but weed is a lot more exciting and less wonkish than taxation and welfare state policy.
It's how Canada got legal weed and 10 years of mediocre Liberal party government.
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@dragonfrog
> cannabis legalization can be a very effective way for mushy centrist corporatist parties to appear to flank a progressive party from the left
Another good reason for the Greens to front-foot this, especially a year before an election. It covers their progressive flank (drug policy isn't really a left-right issue), and takes it out of the running as a wedge issue ACT or maybe the Nats could use to cosplay libertarianism and shore up their youth vote in 2026.
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What I'm hoping this signals is that the Greens and TPM will agree on a policy for minimum level of drug law reform, as a bottom line in coalition negotiations.
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