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June 06 2019 – Team MindFuel
Oakland, California Decriminalizes Magic Mushrooms and Peyote. When will NZ Follow?
The Psychedelic renaissance is really gaining momentum in the USA now with Oakland, California decriminalizing psychedelic plants! This includes Psilocybin mushrooms, DMT plants such as Ayahuasca and Mescaline cacti such as Peyote! Oregon is also working on similar legislation for the coming year. Oakland has become the second city in the U.S to decriminalize magic mushrooms, after Denver, Colorado held...
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May 28 2019 – Team MindFuel
Introducing Higher Standards X Jonathan Adler
Higher Standards and iconic designer, Jonathan Adler, teamed up to introduce a new standard of luxe-living — the handcrafted Jonathan Adler x Higher Standards capsule collection. Available in two head-turning designs, Smolder and Hashish, these additions to your tablescape sport heat-resistant porcelain that houses all of your smoking accessories and everyday items. Fiery red lips set the Smolder pieces ablaze...
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May 17 2019 – Team MindFuel
New Zealand Medical Cannabis Use Survey
Have you used Cannabis (including both herbal cannabis and cannabis-based pharmaceuticals) for medicinal reasons in the past year? If you have and you live in New Zealand, then Massey University researchers would love to hear from you! Please complete their New Zealand medical cannabis use survey at: https://medcansurvey.shore.ac.nz/ It will take about 10-20 minutes to complete the survey. You can...
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May 09 2019 – Team MindFuel
Denver Votes to Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms - Should New Zealand Follow?
Denver just voted to decriminalize magic mushrooms. After a very narrow vote, Denver becomes the first city in the U.S.A to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms. The plan doesn’t permit the sale or purchase of the mushrooms, and establishes a task force to examine the impact of decriminalization over the next several years. “It’s a signal to the rest of the country...
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May 08 2019 – Team MindFuel
KandyPens Sale - Enjoy up to 50% Off Selected Vapes
To celebrate the governments recommendation that smokers put down their cigarettes and start vaping instead, we have decided to launch a massive KandyPens vape sale. KandyPens produce a large collection of high quality vape pens that are designed to work with all regular e-liquids as well as Nic Salts, herbal oils and even dissolved herbal wax. The also produce vape...
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May 07 2019 – Team MindFuel
New Zealand Cannabis Referendum Announcements Made
The 2020 New Zealand cannabis referendum will be a simple yes or no question on a piece of draft law that had not yet passed, Justice Minister Andrew Little says. This means a future Government would have to actually enact the law change if voted for, meaning it is not binding, although Little is describing it as such. Little says...
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May 07 2019 – Team MindFuel
Government Advises Smokers: Change to Vaping!
The government is soon to recommend smokers quit smoking cigarettes and start vaping instead. The ministry of health is about to start recommending vaping as a way to quit smoking. Up until now retailers have been prohibited from marketing vapes or electronic cigarettes as a means to quit the smoking habit. The government has been very cautious up until this...
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May 01 2019 – Team MindFuel
Meth NZ's Top Drug - Wastewater Tests Reveal
The first ever batch of nationwide wastewater drug testing across New Zealand has revealed that Methamphetamine is our most popular illicit drug. Police on Tuesday released the results of three months of testing (November to January) for Cocaine, Fentanyl, Heroin, Methamphetamine and MDMA (Ecstasy) at 37 wastewater plants capturing 80 per cent of New Zealand's population. Methamphetamine came out on...
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April 28 2019 – Team MindFuel
Police Cannabis Seizures Up Despite Looming Referendum on Personal Use
The Police had a bumper haul of cannabis in 2018, seizing over $15 million worth off weed from the population despite the looming referendum on personal cannabis use. Figures released under the Official Information Act show officers seized just under 800,000 grams of harvested weed in 2018, with they claim would have fetched a street value of $15.5 million. That amount was bigger...
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April 26 2019 – Team MindFuel
Imperial College London launches first ever “Centre for Psychedelic Research”.
The worlds' first formal center for psychedelic research will launch at Imperial College London today. Funded by more than £3 million from 5 founding donors, the new Imperial Center for Psychedelic Research will build on over a decades pioneering work in this area carried out at Imperial, including a clinical trial that has kick-started the global efforts to develop psilocybin...
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April 24 2019 – Team MindFuel
Closed for Anzac Day - Thursday 25th April
Dear Valued MindFuel customers, Tomorrow (Thursday 25th April) is Anzac day and we will be closed for the day. You are still welcome to shop online, however we will not be processing orders or emails until the following day, so hence can not guarantee dispatch before the weekend. Any orders not sent will be out early this coming week. We...
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April 24 2019 – Team MindFuel
New medicinal cannabis company to create 100 jobs in Taupō
A Taupo based medicinal cannabis company has been given the green light to set up its operation, which has created 100 jobs. SETEK Therapeutics will be set up in Taupō later this year. They are now the fourth company that the Ministry of Health has granted a license to cultivate cannabis plants. They are only the second to receive permission to grow...
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April 21 2019 – Team MindFuel
Kiwi drug company AFT looks at medical cannabis opportunities as referendum nears
New Zealand drug company AFT Pharmaceuticals is planning to expand into medical cannabis should the country vote in favour of drug law reform in next year's referendum, its founder says. Started 20 years ago in a garage by husband and wife team Marree and Hartley Atkinson using only 50K start-up capital, in late 2015 AFT listed on the NZ &...
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March 29 2019 – Team MindFuel
Plastic Herb Grinders Have Just Been Made Obolete: Santa Cruz Hemp Shredder
The new Santa Cruz Hemp Shredder makes plastic herb grinders obsolete with its plastic-free 100% hemp bio-construction. At only $18 each these beauties totally out perform and will way outlive any regular plastic herb grinders. Save the earth with style! Did we mention the light fluffy grind Santa Cruz Shredder are known for? Get one quick - Limited supply!
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February 24 2019 – Team MindFuel
West Coast 'Green Fairy' discharged without conviction
West Coast man John Robert Patrick was elated outside the Greymouth district court after being discharged without conviction for supplying medicinal cannabis to thousands of sick people. John is what is commonly referred to as a "green fairy", a term used to describe cannabis suppliers and/or growers who network to help patients on compassionate grounds. Judge Jane Farish said she would...
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December 18 2018 – Team MindFuel
Medsafe investigating claims on cannabis billboard
Medsafe is "looking into" what is being called New Zealand's first medical cannabis advertising campaign. Since a billboard advertising cannabis as medicine was erected on Auckland's Anzac Ave earlier this week, the Advertising Standards Authority has received multiple complaints. Helius Therapeutics, a licensed medicinal cannabis company, launched the billboards following last week's legalization of medicinal cannabis manufacture, to "rebrand" cannabis....
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December 18 2018 – Team MindFuel
Cannabis Referendum Will Be Held at 2020 Election, Government Confirms
The Government will hold a referendum on personal cannabis use at the 2020 general election - and it will be binding. Justice Minister Andrew Little announced Cabinet had made the decision on Monday on his way into caucus on Tuesday morning. "It will be held at the 2020 general election. The agreement is that it will be binding. There is...
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December 11 2018 – Team MindFuel
Medicinal Cannabis Bill Passes, with Regulated Market Promised Within a Year and a Legal Defence Until Then
The Government has passed its medicinal cannabis bill, which will establish a regulated scheme within a year and give those close to death a legal defence before then. Read more...
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November 21 2018 – Team MindFuel
Cannabis Referendum Decision Before Christmas
The details of a referendum to legalize cannabis - including whether its results will be binding - are set to be announced before the end of the year, Justice Minister Andrew Little has confirmed. Read more...
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November 09 2018 – Team MindFuel
Medicinal cannabis regulation 'could be all sorted in six months'
The government has been told it could regulate medicinal cannabis within six months, if it wants to, according to an advocate. Medical Cannabis Awareness New Zealand coordinator Shane LeBrun said the health minister refused to meet him on several occasions - stalling progress. At a cannabis conference in Wellington today, Mr LeBrun slammed Health Minister David Clarke. "I appreciate he...
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November 08 2018 – Team MindFuel
New Zealand Legalizes Hemp Seed as Food
We are extremely happy to announce that at long last the law around the sale of hemp seed for human consumption has finally come into effect . On Monday the 12th of November 2018, New Zealand will legalize the production, sale and consumption of hemp (cannabis sativa) seed as food. This is fantastic news and will ensure all New Zealanders...
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November 07 2018 – Team MindFuel
Study Shows DMT Protects Brain and Immune Cells Under Stress
DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) is a potent endogenous psychedelic present in the brain of humans and other mammals. Since its discovery by the Hungarian psychiatrist Stephen Szára in 1956 its physiological role still remains largely unknown. A recent study performed by a Hungarian team led by Ede Frecska and Jordi Riba is the first to show that the DMT protects brain and...
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October 31 2018 – Team MindFuel
Cannabis startup Helius Therapeutics lands Auckland's first cultivation licence
Startup Helius Therapeutics has become the first Auckland-based startup to be issued a cannabis cultivation licence. The Ministry of Health informed the firm last Friday that its application was successful. Helius joins Waikato's Cannsouth and Ruatoria-based Hikurangi Cannabis in successfully acquiring the licence to breed strains of cannabis that could be used in medicines. Read more...
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