MARIJUANA BRIEFING FOR SELECT COMMITTEE

Experts and officials from Government-sanctioned medical marijuana
programmes in the Netherlands, Canada and the United States will visit
New Zealand this month.

Governments around the world have begun legalising the use of
marijuana by patients with chronic pain and other forms of suffering.

A parliamentary health select committee has recommended New Zealand
consider making cannabis-based medicines available to suffering
patients, and the Drug Policy Forum Trust has invited the overseas
experts to brief it on their programmes.