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New Zealand: Mana leader angry at cannabis plan
Stuff.co.nz Monday 08 Sep 2014 An email from Harawira to Mana members yesterday has surfaced, showing Harawira’s anger at Internet-Mana resources being put into the cannabis campaign instead of promoting his flagship Feed the Kids policy. A Mana source shared the email with Fairfax. “Why am I seeing all this shit about weed and so... f***** little about feed [Feed the Kids]... just because the Internet Party is keen on weed … and got all the money to spend on all this flash advertising shit is no reason why… the same people who are also supposed to be working for Internet-Mana aren’t doing the same kind of package for Feed the Kids,” the email says. In the email, Harawira said he would not be backing the online decriminalisation campaign, saying it should be pulled, and if it had already gone out he would be putting a statement out pointing out his frustration. “Get your priorities right, folks,” he said in the email sent on September 7. In an apparent response to questions being raised about the email today, Harawira front-footed the issue, putting out a statement saying he stood by his criticism. “My concern was that time and design effort had obviously gone into the cannabis law reform promotion, while I hadn’t seen the same level of promotion for one of Internet-Mana’s main campaign themes, Feed the Kids”. Internet Party leader Laila Harre described the email as ''the normal process of to and fro over marketing during an election campaign''. She and Harawira sign-off on any new advertising material, adding that too much was being read into a single email. ''The email that Hone wrote related to some proposed new social media marketing around the cannabis policy... The suggestions that our creative team came up with, both Hone and I agreed that we didn't want to proceed with... a broadened social media campaign around that issue.'' Harawira said the focus had since switched to his Feed the Kids bill - which would see the government fund breakfasts for all kids in all decile one to four schools. The online campaign to support the bill would start after the launch of Internet-Mana’s Eliminating Poverty campaign tomorrow. Last week the party released its policy calling for a review of drug laws and for cannabis to be managed as a health issue, rather than a justice one. But Mana and the Internet Party disagree over the extent of marijuana law reform. The Internet Party wants to decriminalise cannabis and make it available for medicinal purposes, while Mana just wants the latter. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10473522/Mana-leader-angry-at-cannabis-plan
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