Legalisation does not mean a 'free for all'. It means regulating and controlling cannabis use, bringing it within the rule of law, and treating people with respect. ALCP cannabis/ hemp policy provides for adult's 'grow your own' needs as well as prescribed cannabis medicines, and will allow R18 cannabis commerce, but without promotional aspects currently seen with alcohol.  ALCP policy also makes provision for 'expungement' of cannabis convictions.

Cannabis debate in New Zealand - read the trademe opinion page threads. updated 8 Dec 2008 -

leaked extract from ALCP candidates speech...

TRADE AND TOURISM Legalisation would bring thousands more tourists to our great country every year bringing their millions of much needed dollars for spending. Legalisation will also open whole new avenues for self-suffiency, importing and exporting forming and bonding new relationships with countries trading things such as clothes, bio fuels, paper products, fibre boards, car panel, oils, seeds, clones etc.

LAW AND ORDER Law and order will become more sustainable as trust and social behaviour are restored back into our communities by way of neighbours becoming more neighbourly and not being paranoid about the couple of plants that they or their neighbours may have growing in their back yard.

The West Coast-Tasman voters have the opportunity to have 4 representatives in Parliament this election.

Because of their party positioning Damien O'Connor, Chris Auchinvole, and Kevin Hague all would be in parliament through the 'party' vote allocation.  So in reality a vote for one of these candidates is effectively a wasted vote.

If Labour, National, and Green supporters gave their party votes to their parties and gave their constituency vote to Steven Wilkinson, then West Coast-Tasman would be represented by 4 candidates.

Steven Wilkinson believes that being elected to represent the West Coast-Tasman seat, would be a great platform to begin the public debate on cannabis law reform without affecting his responsibility as a representative for the area.

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ALCP list candidate Paul McMullan was found not guilty of cannabis possesion in Dunedin distrct court on Thursday 8th October following his arrest in February. McMullan defended himself for the duration of the 7 month case, succesfully convinced Judge Kean that the police case against him was insufficient proof of his guilt. An initial charge of cultivation of cannabis was downgraded to possesion after the election of a jury trial by the accused.

Mr McMullan used the case to launch a stinging attack on New Zealand's cannabis prohibition laws. The evidence brought by the police was filled with statements from the assused lambasting the law in the strongest possible language. Mr McMullan cross-examined both police witnesses at length, causing unexpected delays at the Dunedin court house.

Wellington Central electorate candidate

Michael is the ALCP Party Leader. A law lecturer and Wellington lawyer for 38 years, Michael has owned his own home for 32 years, and is a solo Dad with four daughters aged between 10 and 27 years. Michael was on the local Liquor Licensing Trust for seven years, and preparing for cannabis regulation, until the Trust was disestablished due to the now-liberal laws relating to alcohol.

One of the longest-serving leaders of a political party in NZ, Michael still works with many of the original members since founding the ALCP in 1996. Michael believes it is fundamentally wrong for cannabis to be criminalised and subject to black market 'crime creating' forces, when 52% of the surveyed NZ population have used cannabis.

 New Zealand Herald - 2/9/08

No one's left right out in battle for votes

"The single-issue Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party and the Republic of NZ Party, which combines republicanism with a passion for fathers' rights in divorce cases, are harder to place on the traditional left-right spectrum."