Challenge the Government of New Zealand, placing a marijuana vending machine
Some supporters of legalizing marijuana in New Zealand, have challenged the authorities with the placement of a vending machine of cannabis in a club in Auckland at a price similar to the black market.
The device is similar to machines sold "grass" for medicinal purposes in California and where the price of a gram of marijuana rises to 20 New Zealand dollars (about 12.3 euros).
The authorities allow, in time, follow the dispenser plugged into the club, The Daktory, located in West Auckland, where the headquarters of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
New Zealand and Australia are the countries with the highest rate of marijuana and amphetamine in mundoLas marijuana plants and seeds are classified as Class C drug in New Zealand, with Australia are the countries with the highest rate of marijuana and amphetamine in the world, according to a study recently published in the Lancet.
New Zealand law provides a maximum penalty of three months in prison and a fine of about $ 400 (300 euros) for consumption, while the cultivation and distribution is punishable by a maximum of eight years in prison and a $ 800 (600 euros) in sanctions.
The synthetic marijuana was permitted in New Zealand until last year and sold freely in corner stores, tobacconists and specialty shops and online.
But Parliament passed a temporary ban for scientists estudiasen side effects after they occur several cases of alleged health complications related to the use of this substance.
Cannabis Clubs
The club, The Daktory, was opened in November 2008 and had thousands of members when its founder, Dakta Green, was jailed in 2011 for possessing, selling, and let your store be used for drug use.
The club, which closed its doors and became the headquarters of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, recently reopened, but Green remains in jail.
In California it is legal to use marijuana for therapeutic
Cannabis clubs are popular in California, where it is legal to use marijuana for therapeutic purposes.
Since 2008 some machines operating in California where the patient chooses the desired type of merchandise after verifying the identity of usury through fingerprints.
In the Netherlands are known coffee shops, where they consume this drug, although the Government of that European country has forced them to become closed clubs with up to 2,000 members and those who may attend only the residents in the nation.
Effective 1976, the rules of operation of such facility Dutch, who in the past decade have been reduced from about 1500 to 660, was presented as a model regulation for keeping under control the use of the drug and minimized the illegal traffic.
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