If gangs are selling cannabis laced with P it is a good argument to decriminalise the so-called softer drugs, the Green Party says. MP Metiria Turei said yesterday this predatory trend highlighted the reason why the Greens were arguing for "rational regulation" of cannabis to separate it from harder and
more dangerous drugs.
Mrs Turei's comments were made yesterday while Wanganui continued to reel from gang-related incidents which in some quarters are suspected to be part of a turf war over the methamphetamine drug P. Police Association president Greg O'Connor, for instance, told the Press Association turf war was always over "who has the rights to distribute drugs, particularly methamphetamine."
Wanganui acting commander, Senior Sergeant Duncan MacLeod, on the other hand, said on Wednesday the police had no intelligence to suggest this week's violence was a turf war over P. Mrs Turei: "If the only way that people can access cannabis is via hard core drug dealers they are increasingly vulnerable to being forced into taking harder drugs and suffering all the terrible problems that result."
