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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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...

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 &...

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!

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Findings from the last study in a series of six Phase 2 trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was published today in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. The clinical trial in Boulder, Colorado (MP-12) enrolled 28 participants suffering from chronic PTSD. Results showed that after 2 - 3 sessions of MDMA psychotherapy (with active doses of...

Heartbreak Island host - and former Newstalk presenter - Mark Dye has launched a new medicinal cannabis company and says he hopes to make therapeutic products that are more accessible and more affordable for New Zealanders. Dye is co-founder and chief executive of NUBU Pharmaceuticals which today also announced an exclusive distribution agreement with one of Europe's leading cannabinoid companies,...

A start-up in New Zealand's burgeoning cannabis scene is asking investors for $20 million in backing. Zeacann, which recently rebranded from Pharmacann, has initiated the capital raising through PwC and will be targeting wholesale investors to grow the business. Read more...

Medicinal cannabis, the latest craze to hit North American stock markets, may soon be a feature of the NZX if Waikato-based Cannasouth's listing plans come to pass. Cannasouth said it will make an application to list its shares on the NZX main board through an initial public offering (IPO) during the second quarter of 2019. Read more...

Many of you will no doubt be familiar with mushroom king Paul Stamets. Paul is the author of six books, including Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, and Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide, and he has discovered and named numerous species of psilocybin mushrooms. Paul is also the founder...