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Guyon Espiner: Wasted
Guyon Espiner: Wasted headlines with summaries.
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One kilo used to be a big drug bust - now it's 613kg
2 Dec 2022With decades of experience in the war on drugs between them, a Customs boss and a regional cop are uniquely qualified to talk about the state of the national struggle against drug harm.
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How a US President set NZ's drug laws
1 Dec 2022In a new documentary, RNZ's Guyon Espiner asks what business Richard Nixon has in sending hundreds of New Zealanders to prison each year for low-level drug offences.
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Guyon Espiner: Wasted - Our long, costly and failed fight
15 Dec 2022Watch - Why is the world passing New Zealand by on drug law reform? Guyon Espiner: Wasted is an RNZ documentary special on the cost of our decades-long war on drugs.
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The cost of the war on drugs
30 Nov 2022Around the world, a truce is being called in the long war on drugs. But in Aotearoa, cannabis is still illegal and thousands are convicted every year for low-level drug crimes.
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