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	Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party
		With the formation of the new Government this week, the cannabis legal status has turned out to be the ‘balance of power' issue in New Zealand, yet again.
		Helen once described cannabis prohibition as 'poor public policy' (great marijuana debate, 1994) and committed Labour to a commission of inquiry into cannabis laws in 1998, but it seems this all counts for nothing in the sleazy world of 21st century politics and 'prohibition industry' interests.
		Legalisation does not mean a 'free for all'.
	www.alcp.org.nz (387 words)

	Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party, which got 0.23 per cent of the vote - 4609 votes - on election night, said yesterday that renewing the agreement with...
		The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party is sending an impassioned plea to Helen Clark, asking her to reject United Future and New Zealand First.
		The party remains in existence, however, and has announced that it may contest the by-election in Te Tai Hauauru in mid 2004.
	www.wikiverse.org /aotearoa-legalise-cannabis-party (373 words)

	Changing the Law on Cannabis - Green Party
		The Green Party and the ALCP have a common cause.
		We don't support the legalisation of the cannabis industry or the commercial production of the plant, but we do believe possession and cultivation of small amounts of cannabis for personal use by adults should not be a crime.
		The bottom line is, however, that we would legalise cannabis for personal use, we would allow people to grow a small number of plants in their own back yard, we would improve access to sensible and effective education, and we would encourage the establishment of a hemp industry in New Zealand.
	www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/speech3016.html (1096 words)

	NORML New Zealand - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As a political party representing 35,000 voters in 1996, the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party has earned the allocation of $40,000 for radio and telvsion election broadcasting.
		Legalise Cannabis MPs would campaign for change from within Parliament, and would support other parties and individual Members of Parliament willing to make progress on the issue.
		Cannabis law is made by MPs who are mostly intimidated by public ignorance, prejudice and anti-drug hype imported from the USA.
	www.norml.org.nz /Action/election99/alcp.htm (443 words)

	Directory - Regional: Oceania: New Zealand: Society and Culture: Politics: Parties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One NZ Party · cached · A political party who put community standards, local co-operation and the culture of close knit family as the basis of their policies.
		Communist Party of Aotearoa · cached · Aims at the revolutionary overthrow of the New Zealand capitalist class and its replacement with a government of workers.
		Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party · cached · Exists to legalise the possession and cultivation of cannabis for personal use and expunge previous convictions for personal use.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=262885 (406 words)

	Cannabis Questions. The online cannabis resource
		Cannabis is the most durable of the hemp plants, as it produces the toughest cloth, called `canvass.' Canvass was widely used as sails in the early shipping industry, as it was the only cloth which would not rot on contact with sea spray.
		Marijuana (The flowers, buds, or leaves of the cannabis plant) is not legal to possess, and there are stiff fines and possible jail terms for having any marijuana in your possession.
		The seeds are legal to possess and eat, but only if they are sterilized (will not grow to maturity.)Since it is not possible to grow the hemp plant without being in possession of marijuana, the United States does not produce any industrial hemp products, and must import them or, more often, substitute others.
	www.cannabis-questions.com (4987 words)

	New Zealand Election news & blogs on Stuff.co.nz: Cannabis Party asks PM not to sign deals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A political party that wants cannabis legalised has written to caretaker prime minister Helen Clark urging her not to sign deals with United Future or New Zealand First.
		The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party, which got 0.23 per cent of the vote - 4609 votes - on election night, said yesterday that renewing the agreement with United Future or making one with NZ First would "block cannabis law reform".
		Party leader Michael Appleby listed a range of reasons why this should not happen, including that it was "inhumane" to continue to prosecute and criminalise New Zealanders for cannabis use when more than half the population had tried it.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3425297a14095,00.html (186 words)

	Legalise Cannabis Campaign Scotland - October's NEWS!
		The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party came 7th in the New Zealand general election, after 1.42 % of the electorate voted for them.
		An ALCP spokesman said "we were a long way off, but we still did ok. We were expecting a better result but due to lack of money, volunteers, and experience, and public apathy, ignorance and fear, the outcome was still good.
		Cannabis is often sold openly from ‘supermarkets’ based in squatted houses, and promoted by word of mouth.
	www.thepulse.co.uk /lcc.scotland/news1096.htm (1610 words)

	Nandor for Minister of Hemp, say Legalisers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party members believe that in terms of drug law reform, “Nandor is the man, as long as he remembers that HEMP is the green issue that matters most”.
		Cannabis Party analysts had picked the Green turnaround, given the clear swing of the cannabis vote to the Greens on election night, and the 3.5% special vote precedent for ALCP “late enrollments” in 1996 - trends that evidently went unnoticed by superficial mainstream commentators.
		The Cannabis Party believe that prohibition apartheid must be dealt to without delay, and have an expectation of immediate action.
	www.mildgreens.com /07dec99.htm (470 words)

	Cannabis party likely to be potted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party may be dissolved this year, with supporters advised to vote Green instead, says president Michael Appleby.
		The party's election plans depend on the outcome of a parliamentary select committee inquiry into cannabis use and law reform.
		Green cannabis law reform spokesman Nandor Tanczos was on the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party's list for the 1996 election but left the party immediately afterwards.
	www.nzdf.org.nz /update/messages/1691.htm (158 words)

	Legal Marijuana tabled out of left fiel with renewed Health Committee call. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leader and Wellington lawyer Michael Appleby today said the report of the multi-party Select Committee, "presented considerable evidence that criminalisation of cannabis use was inappropriate and a threat to mental health and public safety." He warned that the ALCP will redouble its efforts with Government failing again to act upon the Committee’s advice.
		It is most unusual for Government to be slapped over the hand in such a politically sensitive area, and the Legalise Cannabis Party take this a sign that the House might be finally ready to handle and resolve the burning issue, despite Health Minister Creech’s narrow response.
		The ALCP believe Government is over a barrel, at a crucial point in the run up to the 1999 election.
	www.mildgreens.com /11jun99.htm (419 words)

	Scoop: Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party AGM Ends on High
		Cannabis activists from Hokianga to Invercargill gathered at the 8th Annual General Meeting of the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party in Christchurch last weekend and determined to step up the campaign for cannabis law reform.
		Party Leader Michael Appleby pointed out that in the last election cannabis had been the crucial factor in determining the present government.
		He promised that the Party would continue towards their goal of legalising cannabis for those over the age of 18 years, so that cannabis would be treated exactly the same as alcohol or tobacco.
	www.scoop.co.nz /mason/stories/PO0311/S00157.htm (632 words)

	The Otago Daily Times, Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party believes that with better management of New Zealand’s resources and the extra wealth created from new hemp industries it should be possible to bring the age of retirement down rather than raise it.
		As the ALCP’s Dunedin North elecorate candidate, it is my belief that working fewer hours at an earlier age would be a beneficial lifestyle change for many New Zealanders, their families, our environment and society.
		Cannabis is also an effective medicine for many illnesses and could save tens of millions of dollars from New Zealand’s pharmaceutical expenditure.
	www.odt.co.nz /elections2005/candidates.php?c=101 (1446 words)

	NORML New Zealand
		The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party are appalled that Neville Yates who has sought legitimate access to cannabis for the last six years has been found guilty of cultivation of 9 spindly plants.
		With a directive that twisted their legal arms right up their legal backs the Judge told the Jury they have sworn to uphold the law of the land and that they cannot go against New Zealand law.
		The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party says "Shame on our Justice System." This is a law that is under question and review in Parliament and we believe Neville should have been shown mercy.
	www.norml.org.nz /postp4506.html (2578 words)

	Restore-Digest Wednesday, June 19 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 112
		However, Greens co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said her party would not be making marijuana law reform a bottom-line for entering a coalition.
		I can't predict the outcome." Her comments follow an offer from the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party not to stand against her in highly marginal Coromandel if the Greens make legalisation of marijuana a "fundamental issue" to be dealt with in coalition talks with Labour.
		Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party leader Michael Appleby, who talked to Ms Fitzsimons last week, said he was not making any threats because his party did not see the Greens as enemies.
	www.thc-foundation.org /restore/20020619.html (2664 words)

	Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ALCP believes that adults have the right to freedom of choice unless that choice harms other people or our planet.
		In advocating R18 legalisation and regulation for cannabis, and broad usage of hemp as a much needed environmental resource, Aotearoa Legalise is still the only party in NZ that is prepared to properly address this complex issue.
		We call on unregistered voters, whether they use cannabis or not, to get onto the electoral roll and stand up for their rights.
	www.ebesign.co.nz /projects/ALCP (159 words)

	Drug Policy Reform Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is a registered political party and contested the 1996 general election, receiving 1.66% of the total vote after existing for only 8 months.
		ALCP is building resources to contest the 1999 general election and hopes to beat the 5% vote threshold and thereby be allocated seats in parliament.
		Saar Hanfinitiative is the most active legalization group for the cannabis plant in the state of Saarland on the French border to Alsace.
	legalize.lycaeum.org /global/usa/memtexts.htm (4651 words)

	Pot politics in New Zealand
		Stories of cannabis in New Zealand reach to the unknown heart of Maori legends, hang in gossamer folds from the step where old Kuia, the elder women of the tribe, exhaled their pipefuls of pot to stream off through the palm and eucalyptus.
		What is left of that smoke still courses through the stories of jailed Maori cannabis activist and ALCP candidate Teresa Aporo, in the teachings of Maori elder Sir Graham Latimer, and in the sentiments of the incendiary gang members, who surrounded the Canna-bus one morning in the famed marijuana-growing regions of northern New Zealand.
		Creech has screeched to the press that cannabis, among other drugs, was likely "at the heart of death, suicide, accidents, injury, violence and family and social disruption." Legalizing cannabis, or even having bongs on the shelves of stores, said Creech, would send the wrong message to children.
	www.cannabisculture.com /articles/1330.html (5764 words)

	Call 1-800-728-5360, Cannabis Poll Threat to Turia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party is threatening to force a $500,000 election it will almost certainly lose if former MP Tariana Turia does not commit to legalising cannabis.
		ALCP president Michael Appleby justified the expense by saying the $500,000 was a drop in the bucket compared with more than $80 million it cost to enforce cannabis laws.
		As a party leader and sole MP, she would be entitled to more staffing resources than independent MPs, based on the number enrolled in her party.
	420-girls.howtopassyourdrugscreen.com (555 words)

	Political Party Contact Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Political parties have to be registered with the Electoral Commission in order to be able to contest the Party Vote in a general election.
		New Zealand First was formed in 1993 as a party, “to represent the views of all New Zealanders concerned about the economic and social direction of New Zealand, the sale of public assets to foreign control, and the decline in employment and social services.
		The Party's policy focus is on the family and the part the family plays in all aspects of New Zealanders’; lives, society and economy.
	www.nzgovtdirectory.com /directory/section1/parties.htm (2056 words)

	Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the Christian political parties is calling for the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Partry to be stripped of its taxpayer funding.
		The ALCP was allocated $43,000 of taxpayer money for radio and television commercials.
		Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party - Cannabis liberation is "Christian Harm Reduction"
	www.mildgreens.com /future.htm (109 words)

	World's First Rastafarian MP
		For days after New Zealand's national elections on November 27, cannabis activists chewed their joints like cigars, waiting to see if the Green Party, with their pro-decriminalization stance, would make it into New Zealand's parliament.
		With the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (ALCP) out of the running, hopes for a strong parliamentary voice against the drug war seemed to rest with the Greens.
		Then they vote again for a party, so if there is support for a party, but it is spread around the country so thinly that their candidates don't stand a chance in any particular electorate, a party can still make it into government.
	www.cannabisculture.com /library/hparchive/WorldsFirstRastafarianMP.html (554 words)

	Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party
		New: September '05: People often say to us: "But you're only a single issue party": - This does not do the cannabis reform issue justice, because the ALCP minimimum programme impacts beneficially across all areas of governance, in areas of health, education, justice, law and order, race relations, economy and environment....
		The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party exists to legalise cannabis for recreational, spiritual, medicinal and industrial purposes; to empower people to work together for peace and true justice; and to institute a proper and just balance between the power of the state and the rights and dignity of the individual.
		ALCP 1996 Foundation documents support the principles of partnership in New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi.
	www.alcp.org.nz /policy.htm (305 words)

	BlairsBlog "Canvassing for Opinion"
		Other illegal and legal drugs, including opiates, alcohol, nicotine and cocaine, have been shown to suppress the formation of new brain cells when used chronically, but marijuana's effect on that process was uncertain.
		Cannabis and Maori health is being elevated to morality masquerading as science where 'epidemic proportions' and youth to elder use is given without comparison to non-maori populations.
		And in the case of cannabis, being set free does not mean not using, but rather having the ability to take a position on and think about the reasons for using and the ability to deal independently with at-risk behaviour.
	mildgreens.blogspot.com (10276 words)

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