In 1955 the government agreed to stop importing cannabis after a request from the World Health Organization. Doctors could prescribe cannabis preparations, and Indian hemp cigarettes were sold for asthma, so the decision closed the legal import route for those medicines. It left New Zealand with little medical or recreational cannabis until the 1960s.[1][2]
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References
- Te Ara — Drugs: Restricting drugs, 1866 to 1965Section on the Dangerous Drugs Act 1927 and the 1955 decisionarchived
- Office of the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor — Cannabis evidence summaryp. 40, historical introduction
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