O'Connor Greg; Dean JacquiGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): As members of Parliament we bring our life's experience to this place and when we are discussing bills and hearing bills discussed we dig back in for an innate understanding. I go back to the early 1980s when I was attending the Sweetwaters Music Festival as an undercover police officer. I went to that festival with a group of—no other police officers knew I was there. I went there with a group of people who were quite heavy drug takers. As I've been listening to this debate today and hearing some fairly naive comments from across the aisle I recall that at that festival there was a drug that was going around—my memory of it it was LSD and it was purple Popeyes and it was a particularly bad drug. It had people throwing up. It had one young man going for a swim in the Waikato River and drowning. It had ambulances coming and taking people away. People behaving in all sorts of manners. I remember sitting with this group of experienced drug users who were very afraid of the substances they were taking. Now those Opposite will say Well they just didn't need to take them." Well they didn't need to take them. However they were going to take them and other people there were taking this substance.As I have heard this debate unfold they were actually bringing people in to check their substances so that they could discuss about whether they were safe to take or not. And I couldn't help but think that if what we are proposing here in this legislation was available how sensible it would have been for this group of experienced drug users—these weren't even kids—to have had somewhere to take and test this substance. They wouldn't have gone there if they were going to lose the substance whatever they just wouldn't have bothered. They'd have taken it anyway. So leave the levity out. We all come—there are politics. The National Party have chosen to oppose this legislation which I really can't understand why. I see Chris Bishop there shaking his head. I can imagine the debates that would have taken place in the caucus room around this. It's a silly thing to do guys because your kids your grandkids are going to be the ones that are affected by it.Mr Mitchell you sit there and say "What does Greg O'Connor thinking about this?" Well I think this is actually one of the most sensible things that has come through this House. People shouldn't take drugs. We will as Mr McAnulty said discourage them at every level from taking these drugs but they will. So let's at least give them the opportunity to stay alive and not be affected by it because it is real it is not politics. You know play politics on all sorts of other things but don't play politics on things like this. This just makes sense.The ACT Party who are further to the right than the National Party are they've seen the sense in this. So please play politics with something else but don't play it with something that is so eminently sensible as this piece of legislation. So when your kids and grandkids do go to the music festival do things that of course they shouldn't do of course you advise them not to do but at least give them some chance of making sure they know what they are putting into their body. Whenever I stand up here and speak about this there's two names that always come to my head: Sally Anne Enoka and Alistair Te Korumariri. Two people who took heroin and died of heroin overdoses in Wellington in 1977. Both of them I had arrested earlier in the week and both them died of overdoses. They were heroin users. There was a lot of heroin came into town that was extremely potent and a lot stronger than the usual heroin they took. They were two of the people that I knew that died of it. And OK that wouldn't have been relevant to this but they didn't know what they were taking. At least give them the opportunity to know what they're taking. I actually commend this bill to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Members this debate is interrupted and set down for resumption next sitting day. With thanks to the Chamber team and also to the Clerk's team the House stands adjourned until 2 p.m. Tuesday 23 November.Debate interrupted.The House adjourned at 4.59 p.m."