Children in drugs houses

Another article where police decry children living in a house where drugs are present. In this case, the drugs were cannabis plants.

But the thing is, the vast majority of children in New Zealand live in a house with drugs present: alchohol and tobacco. But despite the fact that alcohol and tobacco are much more harmful to users and society than cannabis, the police say nothing about it.

We need a national drugs policy that is evidence-based, that is based on reality rather than ideology. So many lives have been destroyed by the prohibition of a plant that is, on the balance of evidence, fairly benign, that we simply cannot continue as we have been. Something must be done, the drug laws must change.