By: Blair Anderson

Blair Anderson — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 01:08:21 +0000

What ever the truth of the matter as to the exact formulary, Aubert’s ‘rongo’ in all likelihood contained cannabis, and likely worked because it did. (see USA patents that validate efficacy). While any assay of remaining vessels/containers may indeed validate that there was or was not cannabis matter present, cannabis was used in the KP formulary. I would dispute that the first use of cannabis in NZ was strictly that of Aubert’s. It’s properties were well known to educated colonists prior to her Jerusalem experience. What is of significance is why New Zealand was important to colonise in the first place. A reading of “Joseph Banks: A question of hemp” gives lie to the notion that cannabis was something new and unimportant to who we are as a nation state. Without question, hemp was an enabler for all the missionary endeavours who arrived here to settle this far flung land. The sails, the tow and ropes that powered the christian message around the world were all sourced from cannabis. Indeed the first map drawn by the first captain of the first ship to built of NZ timber detailed ‘abundant hemp’ surrounding Port McQuarrie (Bluff Harbour) as informative to all those who would follow. Notably drawn at the time Napoleon was marching on Moscow ostensibly to stop the Russian’s shipping Ukranian hemp to the UK via the Baltic backdoor (it was a naval strategic munition) albeit at the request of the American’s who couldn’t grow it at near the quality required and thus disenfranchised from the race to occupy and trade with other ‘states’ – primarily it competed with the dominance of the East India Co.’s lucrative profits from Opium. The US’s first naval vessel , the US Constitution still moored on the Charles River adjacent to the ‘rope walks and tow pots’ in Boston, was built to protect America’s interest in both the drug and hemp trade. Are we getting the religious dichotomy? The first traded ‘goods’ from the new world to the old was the drug tobacco from Jonestown to London and Amsterdam.

Cannabis, particularly recreational and medicinal use, was the least of anyones worries….

The country founded by quasi religious nutters that later became a bastion of religious freedom has done so much harm in its wholesale commitment to the global war on drugs and the vile hurt and disfunction it has caused…. and all we see is the RC community rise to defend a long dead ‘Sister’ on the premise she might not have used a proven medicinal herb – in case it disturbs her chances of sainthood.

The RC fraternity needs to get its priorities right….

There is NOTHING Christian about ‘prohibition’.

To ignore this is to dishonour Suzanne Aubert’s memory, work and accomplishments.

By: Karen Arnoldson

Karen Arnoldson — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 01:10:47 +0000

The medicinal cannabis exhibits of Sister Aubert can be found at the Museum of City and Sea in Wellington. There is nothing to be ashamed of about this and everything to be proud of. Cannabis is a medicine and THC and CBD (the main cannabinoids in cannabis) are still listed as pharmaceutical medicines in NZ legislation.

By: Arik Reiss

Arik Reiss — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 08:00:06 +0000

The opening chapter of renowned NZ historian and journalist Redmer Yska describes Mother Mary’s cultivation, processing and distribution of cannabis medications in detail, please read the brilliant book NEW ZEALAND GREEN for yourselves.

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