Kerikeri Grey Power support grows for medicinal marijuana

The Kerikeri Grey Power Federation has joined at least two others in Northland to support legalising medicinal marijuana.

Another Northland Grey Power association has voted to back legalising medicinal marijuana

Kerikeri Grey Power met this month for an extraordinary general meeting where the main items on the agenda were to confirm the legitimacy of its AGM held on May 30; reaffirm the appointments of the new executive committee and to vote on the medicinal cannabis issue.

Kerikeri Grey Power president Geoff Waterhouse said the subject of "medicinal cannabis" v "legalisation of marijuana", had been a hot topic in Grey Power of late.

"The overwhelming view was support for medicinal cannabis but, at the moment, against the blanket legalisation of marijuana," Mr Waterhouse said.

It's now the third Northland Grey Power Association to vote in support of medicinal marijuana.

In April the Otamatea Grey Power federation put its weight behind the legalise medicinal marijuana movement, saying they want to have the choice of dying pain-free.

Otamatea Grey Power president Beverley Aldridge said she had grown tired of watching friends and family suffer serious illness while the drugs they were given had side-effects. Medicinal marijuana, she believed, was the answer.

The move sparked a war of words between Grey Power national president Tom O'Connor and the Cannabis Party - who supported Otamatea's move - with Mr O'Connor saying he was worried about "single issue" groups trying to capture "naive" Grey Power members to promote their cause.

But, in May, Whangarei Grey Power members also voted to back legalising medicinal cannabis, saying they want to have the choice of dying pain-free.

The issue is expected to go to the next national Grey Power AGM for consideration.