Ganja Granny

Huge respect to you Dawn. Its terrible that people suffering from medical conditions are denied safe medicine and forced by the government to buy synthetic and dangerous products only to achieve a lesser result.

Hi Dawn. On what earth you denying the fact you were not a dealer. That amount of Cash, list, scales etc. What else you want Police to prove? I think you should happily plea guilty and stop waisting tax payers money on your trial. Once un your life do something good to this country. Have remorce! You are not a teenager.

hello Dawn. I would like to invite you personally to the NORMl Conference this year in Turangi. We are doing several presentations on medical Mj but would dearly love for you to present your story. Please contact me J'nette Saxby at three.girlz@xtra.co.nz Norml 2009 conference Turangi November 13 -14

This is absolute insanity.. Your story has traveled further than you could think Dawn.. Your a martyr for med-pot users and the story blatantly showed the typical NZ public the flaws in our justice system. How can we actively fight against the corruption??

Thank you Dawn & my respect to you (&your family) & 60 minutes for sharing this story. Your shackle should come off immediately & be preserved as an "AWARD" to expose inappropriate legal intervention & application in NZ. SHAME ON YOU NZ Police for continuing to target "easy drug" scalps for your success statistics. I thought the police oath was to protect life and property - you have vast resource and power - how about using it wisely. SHAME ON YOU NZ judicary for continuing to allow your courts to clog up, issue warrents & sentence so harshly for cannabis use - Most ordinary Kiwis cannot afford to defend themselves emotionally or finacially within your complex system. AND ABOVE ALL SHAME ON YOU NZ GOVERNMENT for continuing to allow NZ law to turn many good hardworking Kiwis into criminals because they choose to use cannabis - obviously your heads are with the cooks and pharmaceutical companies. Come on NZ its high time we got off the grass and dealt with cannabis in a more appropriate manner. Signed Wyn Convicted at 50 after horrific police raid My 1 and only crime was to live a quiet rural lifestyle with my family and grow personal use marijuana in my garden to help alleviate medical complications after more than 30 years hard graft in primary industry.

There's more. The prosecution was under the MOD Act, but I own my own property where we grew our medicine, so it was the Proceeds of Crime Act that drove the case for hungry police. Hence "indictable" charges instead of "summary charges". My home is still under a restraining order from this under the Ministry of Social Development.The original police so-called "Summary of Facts" is a 1 1/2 page double spaced document with 30 errors in it which we have repudiated from the start. This has formed the basis of all Crown documentation which has followed. We refused to plead guilty to cultivation on the basis of it, only on our own evidence. At trial there were so-called expert witnesses whose claims and evidence went unchallenged, and valid experts whose evidence was not admitted. There was partial treatment for Crown witnesses and an exhibit claimed by the Crown to be central, but dated in the main two years prior to the indictment dates, and undisclosed to the defence prior to the trial, which prevented usage calculations to be presented by defence. Any cannabis yields noted were well within international medpot usage recommended guidelines, and there were twelve plants seized, including 8 potted to restrict their growth and including 5 which were as-yet-unsexed seedlings, and 55.2g of cannabis head, all between two medicinal users. If the charges had been laid summarily this world have earnt a fine as "personal use". There are clear anomalies in the cannabis exhibits, indications of probable tampering. etc etc. Because we were found guilty by a jury, we are lucky to not be in prison.A justice system?

Well said herbal_man, Bradley and all you others!! How ridiculous prosecuting this lady and YET AGAIN wasting taxpayers money on taking this lady through our 'Justice System', that's a joke on it's own. The government is wasting money on hundreds of thousands of 'weed' related charges!! The MANY people that smoke weed in NZ always will and you will never stop that! Time the government did something about this. Save $ by not prosecuting against these pathetic 'weed' related charges and dicriminalise and tax or something. It will stop a lot of CRAP and make our country money instead of wasting it, for a change!!!

Keep singing...music to my ancient ears...keep on gardening...medicine for my soul...thankyou Karen for your courage, perseverance and dignity...thankyou TV3 60 minutes

"The Union - The Business Behind Getting High" - here is the link to watch it online at Google Video http://tinyurl.com/cmyfze - highly recommended

Well if the comments left so far are anything to go by it appears there is a very small amount of support for the continued prohibition of cannabis in NZ. Reassuringly there appears to be a lot of New Zealanders who can consider the facts and scientific evidence around cannabis and advocate it's decriminalisation or legalisation. Good on you 60 Minutes for being just about the only main stream NZ news source to present an unbiased story on cannabis. The other so called journalists out there should take a page from your book and follow suit rather than just being part of the police and government propaganda machine. For anyone still uncertain you should watch "The Union - The business behind getting high". Ganja Granny was doing the morally right thing. Our current laws are at odds with common ethics and morals, not to mention science.