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The pro-marijuana lobby in NZ received a huge setback in parliament last night. A bill proposing the legalisation of cannabis based medicines was rejected and failed to get past the first reading to the committee stage, where public submissions could have been heard.

It proved one thing, Kiwis are very conservative in matters dealing with drugs, even if this was for cannabis based medicine. There has been a lot of lobbying for the legalisation of a 'minimum amount' of marijuana for personal use as well in recent years. If they can't get medicines legalised they certainly won't see personal use allowed either!

It was, in my book, a great decision by our lawmakers and credit to commonsense. Marijuana, cannabis, dope, hash or whatever it may be called, is actually one of the most insidious forms of drugs out there - it slowly works on user's braincells slowly making them dopey, and incapable in time of making good, sensible and mature decisions.

Yes, a great day in the New Zealand Parliament. I'm no conservative by any stretch of the imagination, but that was a great decision!