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at New Zealands  general election this September the public will be asked to  vote on two referenda which on the face of it are not connected but upon closer examination are intimately entwined.
the two votes are 'end of life choice' and 'legalisation of cannabis'.
before 1912 any man on the face of the earth was free to grow their own cannabis.
a series of international treaties gradually tightened the laws against the production and use of cannabis.
the real intent of these laws was to curtail opium growing in the nearly defunct ottoman empire and parcel out the resulting gap among the signatories and contractors.
cannabis was always tacked on as an afterthought.
before the rise of better medical science human longevity was nowhere near the time granted to us today and there were fewer people attaining an advanced age.
those that did were treated by physicians who were able to prescribe the medicine known as Bromptons Mist which was a combination of heroin and cannabis to ease the passing.
when stricter laws came into effect criminalising cannabis then this option was off the table
now the person who has survived into advanced age  has to live it out and this has allowed the advancement of selfish others to demand that they have the power to murder their relatives.
david seemore and his political party have promoted the end of life bill not as a general medical proposition but to take this decision out of the hands of the medical profession and hidden under the aegis of personal choice.