“ALCP 2023: Truth, Justice, Freedom, Safety, Prosperity”
Kia Ora:
WHANAU AND COMMUNITY
LEGALISATION AND CONTROL BILL STRAIGHT TO SELECT COMMITTEE BUT AS CANNABIS CHOICE BILL (with inclusive ‘small player’ amendments)
MORITORIUM ON ARRESTS
5 plants per household immediately allowed
Only supply to minors remains arrestable. Andrew Little’s Draft bill proposes R20 age limit precaution.
Local skills, knowledge and Enterprise
Edibles Medibles Vaporised Quality Product
Responsible Adult Consumers, Homegrow, Health Promotion
Strictly NOT FOR CHILDREN (consistent message alongside tobacco, vapes, liquor, etc)
Jobs, Revenue and Tax, Cottage Industry, Tourism Post Covid Recovery.
Restore Law and Order
Friendly Police FOCUS ON REAL CRIME Courts no longer the enemy…
Expunge Criminal Records
Drug education untainted by hypocritical double standards
Drug testing for impairment, not recent use of easily detected cannabis
Civil Liberty, Human Rights, Cognitive Liberty
Respect for Nature
Honest Representation and Accountability in MMP Parliamen
HIGHLY Successful Canadian LEGAL Model has origins in New Zealand’s 2008 ‘Class D’ protocol : “SAFER THAN ALCOHOL”
The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (ALCP) was founded ahead of the first MMP Election in 1996 by Mike Finlayson, Chris Fowlie, Nandor Tanczos and Norml team in Auckland. Michael Appleby led the Party from 1996 until taking a break in 2013.
Interim leaders were Julian Crawford, Abe Grey and Alista Gregory. Deputies have included Mike Finlayson, Blair Anderson Allan Webb, Steven Wilkinson, Mike Britnell, Tim Shadbolt…and 1st co-leader 2017 Jeffery Lyes (and Maki Herbert). Now our duty leader.
Since 2017 ALCP introduced Co-Leadership and has been co-led by Maki Herbert and Jeff Lye, and currently Co-Led Maki Herbert and Michael Appleby (back by popular demand!), with Jeff Lye as Deputy Leader.
The ALCP has contested all nine MMP general elections, as well as all twelve by-elections. and is determined to continue campaigning until fully liberal and beneficial Law Reform is properly REPRESENTED in Aotearoa, NZ
Since 1996 many official inquiries reports and reviews have highlighted the failure and inequity of prohibition in NZ, culmuinating in 2020s 160page proposed “harm minimisation” Cannabis Legalisation and Control bill.
“We believe cannabis legal status is the issue against which we measure our progress as a Civil Society.”
CURRENT PARTY EXCUTIVE also includes long-time advocates and community leaders:
President: Mike Britnell
VIce President: Kevin O’Connell
Secretary: Irinka Britnell
Treasurer: Paula Lambert
Criminalisation continues to disproportionately impinge on huge number of consumers whose use or cultivation of weed is relatively inconsequential and NO ONE ELSE’S BUSINESS.
It makes a mockery of rule of law. Because illegal stakes are high, and monetary incentives are great, “shit happens” on the black market and it all multiplies from there.
Let’s get rid of this far-worse-than-useless racially applied, criminality-promoting ‘dinosaur’ law!
Philosophy we stand by: “UPHOLDING OF INDIVIDUALS RIGHTS WHERE THESE DO NOT UNREASONABLY IMPINGE ON OTHERS” (NZ Ministry of Health - evidence based National Policy on Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs, 1995)
ALCP works to de-stigmatise the cannabis legal status issue in NZ and remediate the current toxic representation situation under ‘nope coalition’ MMP in NZ Parliament.
We will correct the corrupted “harm minimization evidence base” in government with Ministries plundering taxpayer money MAKING WORK FOR THEMSELVES.
ALCP will make Aotearoa New Zealand a much nicer and SAFER, FAIRER, PROSPEROUS and HONEST place for all Kiwis!
ACCOUNTABILITY? Do you feel cheated by the 2020 referendum? Well, we do too…
Stop this invasive unjustified counter-productive law! PROHIBITION ALIENATES AND DRIVES CRIME AND RUINS LIVES AT HUGE COST TO TAXPAYER $$$$$$$$$$$$$
Liberalised in Holland since 1976, isn’t NZ being kept in the dark? 520 cannabis charges per month???
Explore our evidence-based FULL-SPECTRUM policy across Health, Justice, Law and Order, Human Rights, Employment, Economy, Education, Values, Environment, Tourism…
- why Cannabis Hemp liberation is much more than a single issue but arguably the single most important issue for NZ communities - On Principle.
The ALCP's policies all relate to cannabis / hemp. These include legalising possession, growing and use of cannabis for those over 18 (consistent with alcohol & tobacco), taxing companies involved in the cannabis industry, removing restrictive red tape and need for a licence to grow hemp, and funding credible drug education and research.
RESTORE JUSTICE to all wrongly imprisoned and bullied conscientious objectors. ALCP supports NORML, Daktory, ALL grower enthusiasts, Roaring Lions, Green Fairies and Social Club Entrepreneurship. ALCP does NOT SUPPORT supply to minors of either Cannabis Alcohol Tobacco or Vapes.