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According to wastewater testing results, methamphetamine use has risen by 96% from 2023 to 2024. Addiction services are also reporting a surge in use. Casey Costello, Associate Police Minister and Customs Minister, has recently highlighted that the only way to stop this is to combat the profitability of organised crime in New Zealand (Hanly & Reporter, 2025); however, few effective measures for doing this have been suggested. Such a supply-side focus is unsurprising from the

Students for Sensible Drug Policy New Zealand (SSDP) is a student and youth-focused group with a vision of ‘An Aotearoa free from...

Students for Sensible Drug Policy Aotearoa New Zealand has hosted a harm reduction training seminar through their chapter in Tāmaki...

Students for Sensible Drug Policy Aotearoa New Zealand has made a submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill. This bill introduces a...

Students for Sensible Drug Policy New Zealand (SSDP) is a student and youth focused group with a vision of ‘An Aotearoa free from drug...

The Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory (PTAC) expert committee have just released a report recommending that Pharmac fund naloxone...

By Max Phillips, President of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) Ōtepoti-Dunedin Let’s start with some facts: In a sample of 1,540...

Recently, the Ōtepoti-Dunedin chapter of SSDP Aotearoa has been in the news for being instrumental in shutting down a local retailer who...

Today is the 80th anniversary of the first ever intentional LSD trip. On April 19 1943, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss Chemist, deliberately...

Ganja, Dak, Bud, Pot, Good Good ‘erb, Nug, MJ, Reefer, Flower, Trees, Weed, Marijuana, or Cannabis Sativa. There are a lot of names for...