Thursday, March 22, 2012

Cannabis vending machine opens in New Zealand...

Drug law reform campaigners who hired a standard commercial vending machine for their Auckland clubrooms have replaced the cans with one-gram bags of cannabis leaf.

A bag-full drops into the tray below when NZ$20 (£10) in banknotes is inserted in the machine's slot.

Cannabis use is illegal in New Zealand and can attract penalties of fines and imprisonment, with harsher sentences being imposed for dealing than for possession.

 By using the machine as a dispenser, members of NORML -- the National Organisation for Reform of Marijuana Laws -- maintain no one at their headquarters is "dealing". Full story...

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