What’s the Buzz? - our weekly catch up with the New Zealand Drug Foundation - makes a new home on the Tuesday Wire. Aneeka Moheed talks to Brin and Jai from Students for Sensible Drug Policy about the organisation and their goals for drug advocacy in Aotearoa.
This week on 'What's the Buzz?' with the New Zealand Drug Foundation, Aneeka talks to Fiona Patten who is a politician from Victoria, Australia. Fiona is in the country for the Drug Symposium in Parliament and talks to Aneeka about drug policy in Victoria, particularly around marijuana and medically supervised injection centres.
In the sixth installment of 'What's the Buzz?' with the New Zealand Drug Foundation, Aneeka talks to both executive director, Sarah Helm, and Policy Manager, Kali Mercier, about drug law reform in Aotearoa. They discuss the rise in emerging cases of Kiwis getting arrested for using and supplying medicinal cannabis as well as the path we need to see drug law take in the country.
In the fifth installment of, 'What's the Buzz?' with the New Zealand Drug Foundation, Aneeka speaks to Executive Director, Sarah Helm, and Programme Lead, Emily Hughes, about Ketamine. They discuss Ketamine and its dangers in recreational use as well as touching on clinical trials that are looking at its effectiveness in combatting depression.
In the fourth installment of, 'What's the Buzz?' with the New Zealand Drug Foundation, Aneeka speaks to executive director of the Drug Foundation, Sarah Helm. They speak about a recent alert sent out regarding dangerous synthetic cannabinoids in the lower North Island and Magic Mushrooms as we head into what is commonly known as 'shroom season'.
In the third installment of, 'What's the Buzz?' with the New Zealand Drug Foundation, Aneeka speaks to Kali Mercier, The Drug Foundation's manager for policy and advocacy. They discuss the roadside drug tests that the government is planning on implementing shortly as well as an open letter penned to parliament advocating for drug's to be treated as a health issue as opposed to a criminal one.
In the second installment of, 'What's the Buzz?' with the New Zealand Drug Foundation, Aneeka talks to Executive Director, Sarah Helm, about methamphetamines and their place in Aotearoa.
This is the first installment of a six week series, 'What's the Buzz' with the New Zealand Drug Foundation, where we discuss the current affairs of drugs in Aotearoa. This week Aneeka talks to Sarah Helm, executive director of the New Zealand Drug Foundation, about MDMA in Aotearoa, its decline in availability and what this has led to.
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