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New Zealand: Tanczos Plots Rise In Dope Use
Matthew Brockett Evening Post (New Zealand)
Saturday 29 Jul 2000 Subj: New Zealand: Tanczos Plots Rise In Dope Use Pubdate: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 Source: Evening Post (New Zealand) Author: Matthew Brockett TANCZOS PLOTS RISE IN DOPE USE Cannabis use increased by nearly 10 per cent under the National government, Green MP Nandor Tanczos said yesterday. National MP Nick Smith, who had ridiculed Government plans to reduce cannabis use, should "pull his head in", he said. "His call to stop a review of cannabis laws is simply an attempt to hide the clear failure of his own government in this area," Mr Tanczos said. This week Dr Smith dismissed Health Minister Annette King's aim to halve cannabis use by 2005 as "laughable", saying it would never happen while decriminalisation was on the Government's agenda. "Schools are already reporting higher cannabis use arising from the mixed signals about the seriousness of cannabis," he said, referring to the Government's intention to review cannabis laws. But Mr Tanczos said figures from the Alcohol and Public Health Research Unit showed that in 1990, 43 per cent of people admitted to having used cannabis. "By 1998, that group had become a majority at 52 per cent," he said.
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