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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa
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CHANGING THE NARRATIVE ABOUT DRUGS To end prohibition; honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi; restore human rights; promote harm reduction & develop evidence based drug policies. We need your support. Join us: https://hrca.nz/join
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · Jul 20
HRCA is completely independent; run by volunteers; has no staff; no office; receives no funding; & relies on nominal membership fees & donations to fund our activism.

Membership:
Individuals $10 waged; $2 unwaged
Organisations: $100

Do support us if you can💚 hrca.nz/join

HRCA's Seven Objectives:
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 17h
The Drug War:
Peddling & promoting commercially produced drugs, (as if they aren't drugs at all), then prohibiting & punishing the use of all other drugs, (as if they're all inherently more risky)!

The Misuse of Drugs Act has no credibility whatsoever.

The hypocrisy & misinformation
Let's sort it.
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 1d
Date for your diary...
Go to eventfinda to reserve a seat!
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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 5d
#EndProhibition
#MinimiseHarm
#nzpol
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 6d
NZ has a history for world leading law reform: Woman’s Right to Vote; Decriminalisation of Sex Work; National Needle Exchange, Same Sex Marriage and most recently Drug Checking.

This Symposium will explore why major drug law reform is needed and what it should look like.
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 5d
Prohibition has been a devastating experiment with dire consequences. bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's ideology is driven for political gain and vested interest.

HRCA wants to legalise all drugs and ensure future policies are based on science, evidence, experience and human rights.Join us.
Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs
Zack Polanski speaks to BBC South East on the party's new approach ahead of the party's conference.
bbc.co.uk
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 5d
It is hard to think of anything positive achieved by the MoDA1975
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 6d
NZ has a history for world leading law reform: Woman’s Right to Vote; Decriminalisation of Sex Work; National Needle Exchange, Same Sex Marriage and most recently Drug Checking.

This Symposium will explore why major drug law reform is needed and what it should look like.
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 6d
NZ has a history for world leading law reform: Woman’s Right to Vote; Decriminalisation of Sex Work; National Needle Exchange, Same Sex Marriage and most recently Drug Checking.

This Symposium will explore why major drug law reform is needed and what it should look like.
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 7d
Our understanding of drugs are too often unevolved, prejudicial and misinformed.

We struggle to see alcohol, nicotine, sugar and caffeine as drugs while misleadingly regarding all prohibited substances as dangerous. Then we conflate any use of prohibited substance with addiction or problematic use.
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 7d
Our understanding of drugs are too often unevolved, prejudicial and misinformed.

We struggle to see alcohol, nicotine, sugar and caffeine as drugs while misleadingly regarding all prohibited substances as dangerous. Then we conflate any use of prohibited substance with addiction or problematic use.
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 8d
"The attack thought to be retribution for stealing a large quantity of methamphetamine plus $60,000 cash"

Another example of prohibition failure - it fuels crime and violence.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Man lured to reserve, shot out of a tree and beaten to death, Crown alleges
A South Canterbury man was lured to a reserve and shot out of a tree before being hit with a blunt object, a murder trial has heard.
www.rnz.co.nz
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 14d
WHO says daily consumption of raw coca leaves by millions in the Andes carries no significant risks - BUT coca control strategies are associated with “substantial public health harms”.

Prohibition is causing far more harm than the drugs they purport to protect us from.
filtermag.org/who-review-c...
WHO-Commissioned Review: Coca Not Harmful, But Prohibition Is
A copy of the report viewed by Filter indicates that keeping coca leaves in Schedule I is unjustified. Could global policy change follow?
filtermag.org
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 12d
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 12d
Drug Seizures:
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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · Dec 11
There's no world drug problem
Don't collude with it

We have a world drug policy problem:
Ideologically driven 'drug' prohibition problem, sustained by propaganda, misinformation, lies & vested interests

Expose & challenge it
#WeAreAllDrugUsers

Full thread here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/96841...
Thread by @julianbuchanan on Thread Reader App
@julianbuchanan: There is no 'world drug problem' Don't collude with this nonsense We have a world drug policy problem that has been caused by ideologically driven 'drug' prohibition that has peddled ...
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 12d
NZ Police celebrating a 'Whack-a-Mole' drug seizure, then proclaim it's a 'multimillion-dollar trade for organised criminal enterprises” with no sense of irony policing & prohibition has turned it into 'a multimillion-dollar trade for organised criminal enterprises'!

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Police celebrate ‘win’ on cannabis, but Kiwis aren’t all on board
The Drug Foundation says police are playing “whack-a-mole” and “devoting enormous amounts of resources” to finding weed growers.
www.stuff.co.nz
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 14d
Truth...
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 20d
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 14d
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 14d
WHO says daily consumption of raw coca leaves by millions in the Andes carries no significant risks - BUT coca control strategies are associated with “substantial public health harms”.

Prohibition is causing far more harm than the drugs they purport to protect us from.
filtermag.org/who-review-c...
WHO-Commissioned Review: Coca Not Harmful, But Prohibition Is
A copy of the report viewed by Filter indicates that keeping coca leaves in Schedule I is unjustified. Could global policy change follow?
filtermag.org
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 15d
We are receiving important reminders about paracetamol that association is not causation. Could someone also tell the NZ Transport Agency that association is not causation. Drugs like cannabis can be detected days, weeks even months after consumption. Drug presence is not the same as drug impairment
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 15d
We are receiving important reminders about paracetamol that association is not causation. Could someone also tell the NZ Transport Agency that association is not causation. Drugs like cannabis can be detected days, weeks even months after consumption. Drug presence is not the same as drug impairment
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 19d
Our recent article exploring the drivers of the overdose crisis and what we should do about it.

Nicely featured in a carousel on Instagram by TALKINGDRUGS:

www.instagram.com/talking.drug...
TalkingDrugs - Global Reform News & Analysis on Instagram: "Sky-high overdose rates across the world are a policy failure. Prohibition has brought about policies that: - Defund harm reduction and t...
17 likes, 2 comments - talking.drugs on September 19, 2025: "Sky-high overdose rates across the world are a policy failure. Prohibition has brought about policies that: - Defund harm reduction and ...
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 19d
Our recent article exploring the drivers of the overdose crisis and what we should do about it.

Nicely featured in a carousel on Instagram by TALKINGDRUGS:

www.instagram.com/talking.drug...
TalkingDrugs - Global Reform News & Analysis on Instagram: "Sky-high overdose rates across the world are a policy failure. Prohibition has brought about policies that: - Defund harm reduction and t...
17 likes, 2 comments - talking.drugs on September 19, 2025: "Sky-high overdose rates across the world are a policy failure. Prohibition has brought about policies that: - Defund harm reduction and ...
www.instagram.com
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 20d
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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 27d
Kahurangi Carter MP did great work submitting a Good Samaritan Bill for the NZ Parliament 'Biscuit Tin' pot luck

We are delighted that it's been chosen for debate by Parliament!!

We've waited far too long for a Good Samaritan Law in Aotearoa - this is a great opportunity!
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