A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Opinion
Re: Comments in response to July 8 letter, Marijuana lies.
Under a previous government the sale of liquor legislation allowed children (yes at 18 you are still a child when it comes to alcohol) to drink. Apparently under supervision, but politicians always sweeten the pill!
Still, in many US States
you have to be 21 to access alcohol. How well it is policed I am not sure. However, our present legislation is full of loopholes because politicians haven’t the backbone to pass sensible laws based on knowledge of the problem!
Re: Tips for writers opposed to cannabis reform, July 10.
Thanks for your letter, Manu, but you didn’t mention the effect of cannabis use on driving a motor vehicle. As we have no roadside testing in this country yet, we only know after a road accident if drugs were present in the driver. The same applies to work accidents, although I do concede that many employers run random tests on their workers. I agree with that approach, as I would not want to be driven on a bus or train, for example, if the driver was a pot smoker.
