Adults deserve the right to decide.
Our National Drug Policy should not be determined on the prejudiced basis of whether Mrs Shipley did or did not inhale. Opposition leader Helen Clark notably had a less repressive attitude. That means we acknowledge that a massive level of use is occuring and realistically seek to minimise harms in that context. Cannabis-hemp has thousands of industrial uses, currently denied, such as medicine, food, fuel, paper, clothing and biodegradable plastics. It can be argued that those who haven't challenged the moral authority of prohibition by trying marijuana, have denied themselves a fully human experience.