Ghahraman GolrizGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. This is the second member's bill by a member from the National Party that focuses in on a very narrow—well for tonight—point of criminal law seeking to impose further criminalisation and further sanction for very specific types of acts in our justice system. It's a little bit confusing that these are the hopes and dreams of the National Party members in their top wish-list. So it's about synthetic urine and we're talking about authorisation of a scheme that allows the Director-General of Health to issue revoke or expire authorisation. Individuals who import or supply or acquire synthetic urine will be liable for fines not exceeding $2000. Body corporates will be liable for fines not exceeding $2500.The Green Party and I think everyone in this House and probably across our great nation is becoming more and more well versed in our focus when it comes to drug reform which is harm reduction not further criminalisation not further sanction and not further imprisonment because those things have failed in particular when it comes to drug law reform. Surely the reason that an employer would want to reduce the use of illegal drugs by employees while at the workplace and thereby test to deter people from people from being at work or in places of employment whilst under the influence of illegal drugs is to reduce harm and impairment. This bill does nothing to that end because we know that further sanctions will do nothing to that end because all of the data has told us that all of the experts have told us that and it's really time to stop ignoring the evidence. What would be better policy is if we put effort time energy and resource into addressing drug dependency when it is harmful to ensure that we are catching impairment and helping people to access help to reduce the causes of drug offending. Now these fines are high. When you look at the range of fines that we can get for for example criminalised traffic offences they are about $400 to $1000. These are high and in New Zealand just to look at one of our biggest social problems we are the second most incarcerated population per capita in the OECD. In New Zealand people actually go to prison for unpaid fines. We actually have people being massively harmed in prison—we know that's what happens. We have their whānau and their community harmed for unpaid fines. We know that most drug testing takes place in the construction industry and we know that the construction industry has a high population of Māori in it. We know that so too does our criminal justice system target Māori. We know that imprisonment rates are far far higher when—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! I've done this once before in this debate and I'm going to again remind the House and this member to stick to the purpose of this bill which is to restrict and regulate the sale supply and importation of synthetic urine. I would very much like the member to address the purpose of this bill.GOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN: Thank you Madam Speaker. So to sanction people for using synthetic urine looking at it in the context of where it is most likely to occur which is in industries that do drug testing—which the construction industry is one—and looking at the populations that are most likely to be fined and sanctioned by our criminal justice system which is the purpose of this bill we know that there will be certain demographics that will be most harshly impacted by the purpose of this bill and by the sanctions of this bill. We know that there will be certain demographics—and they are Māori and they are most likely to be male—that will be harmed by further sanctions rather than resource being put in addressing drug problems. For that reason this is a bad bill. This proposes a bad law. It proposes an archaic approach that we've seen fail over and over again and I think that we can all agree we'd rather rely on what works. It's time to be little bit more forward thinking or rather practical about drug law policy. We don't as the Green Party support yet another way to sanction people rather than to help support them reduce the harm that illegal drugs may cause.