National drug policy

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The National Drug Policy (NDP) aims to improve the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders by encouraging the development of strategies and programmes which prevent and reduce drug-related harm.

The NDP is in line with World Health Organization and United Nations recommendations of a balanced approach to drug policy.

Progress under the NDP is reviewed twice yearly by the Ministerial Committee on Drug Policy (MCDP). Initiatives are progressed and monitored by a group of Government agencies that make up the Inter-Agency Committee on Drugs (IACD).

The National Drug Policy 2007-2012 sets out the Government's policy for tobacco, alcohol, illegal and other drugs within a single framework. It does this by establishing the goals, objectives and principles that will guide drug policy and intersectoral decision-making about the best way to address the harms caused by drug use, and identifies the population groups that require special attention.

Click here for the 2007-2012 National Drug Policy




Let's talk about pot


"If 25 years of smoking dope has addled my brain, I must have been an intellectual giant in my youth."
Tim Shadbolt, Author Bullshit and Jellybeans

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"Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about the good musicians, but the jazz type."
Harry J. Anslinger, Federal Bureau of Marcotics, 1948

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"The nuns did not know what they were and assumed they were large decorative plants."
A police official in Athens tells of a Greek Orthodox nunnery that employed gardeners who turned out to be cannabis growers using the nunnery as their personal plantation.

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