Cannabis Use for Endometriosis: Clinical and Legal Challenges in Australia and New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Sinclair ◽  
Yasmine Toufaili ◽  
Sarah Gock ◽  
Amanda G. Pegorer ◽  
Jordan Wattle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Legal Challenges

scholarly journals Patterns of recreational cannabis use in Aotearoa-New Zealand and their consequences: evidence to inform voters in the 2020 referendum

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 348-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richie Poulton ◽  
Kirsten Robertson ◽  
Joseph Boden ◽  
John Horwood ◽  
Reremoana Theodore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

scholarly journals Genetic profiling: A legal framework to embrace the challenges

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Helen Curtis
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Genetic Profile ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Genetic Profiling ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
Human Rights Act ◽  
Heath Care

<p>The current issues surrounding the use of genetic profiling technologies in New Zealand are analysed and compared with other jurisdictions, resulting in a number of key recommendations for the legal framework. An amendment to the Human Rights Act, review of the Health Information Privacy Code and an increased role for the Insurance and Savings Ombudsman are discussed in light of the developments in other jurisdictions. The implementation of a genetic database registration system and the development of policies to guide employers, insurers and health professionals on acceptable uses of genetic profile information are presented as recommendations to improve the current approaches. The establishment of an Advisory Body would ensure that safeguards against discrimination continue to be fair and effective, keeping pace with the rapid advancements in this field. The increased availability and the more acceptable costing are making the use of genetic profiling technology attractive. This is contributing further to the legal challenges, particularly when combined with the increasing range of applications for the data provided, in such diverse fields as the insurance industry, employment, personalised pharmaceuticals and the use of genetic databases. It is seen as essential that the legal framework promotes and supports the public in their access and use of genetic profiling technologies. These developments promise to be important and at the forefront of future heath care in New Zealand.</p>

scholarly journals Māori Election Petitions of the 1870s: Microcosms of Dynamic Māori and Pākehā Political Forces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paerau Warbrick
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Theatre ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
Group Politics ◽  
Provincial Politics

Māori election petitions to the 1876 Eastern Māori and the 1879 Northern Māori elections were high-stakes political manoeuvres. The outcomes of such challenges were significant in the weighting of political power in Wellington. This was a time in New Zealand politics well before the formation of political parties. Political alignments were defined by a mixture of individual charismatic men with a smattering of provincial sympathies and individual and group economic interests. Larger-than-life Māori and Pākehā political characters were involved in the election petitions, providing a window not only into the complex Māori political relationships involved, but also into the stormy Pākehā political world of the 1870s. And this is the great lesson about election petitions. They involve raw politics, with all the political theatre and power play, which have as much significance in today’s politics as they did in the past. Election petitions are much more than legal challenges to electoral races. There are personalities involved, and ideological stances between the contesting individuals and groups that back those individuals. Māori had to navigate both the Pākehā realm of central and provincial politics as well as the realm of Māori kin-group politics at the whānau, hapū and iwi levels of Māoridom. The political complexities of these 1870s Māori election petitions were but a microcosm of dynamic Māori and Pākehā political forces in New Zealand society at the time.

Cannabis Use in Psychotic Patients

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sati Sembhi ◽  
Joseph W.Y. Lee
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Test Group ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Urine Test ◽  
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale ◽  
Positive Urine ◽  
Psychiatric Rating ◽  
Psychiatric Rating Scale ◽  
Acute Admissions

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the level of cannabis use in psychotic patients admitted to two acute admission wards in New Zealand. Symptomatology was investigated using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). Method: During a 1-month period, all acute admissions to Tokanui Hospital with psychosis were interviewed and symptoms rated on the BPRS (n = 35). Cannabis use was recorded with a questionnaire and urine test. Those positive for cannabis were compared to those negative. Results: Thirty patients (86%) had tried cannabis at least once and 11 (31%) were positive on urine screen. Those with positive urine tests were significantly more likely to use cannabis most days (p < 0.001). This positive urine test group was less likely to be thought disordered, suspicious or deluded (as measured by the BPRS). Conclusions: Cannabis use was widespread in this sample of patients with psychosis and may affect their symptomatology. Larger studies are needed to examine these associations in more detail.

Capgras Syndrome: Possibly More Common Among the Maori of New Zealand

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 865-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Mackirdy ◽  
Debbie Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
Family Members ◽  
European Population ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Psychotic Illness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Capgras Syndrome ◽  
The City

Objective: The report describes an apparently greater incidence of Capgras syndrome among the Maori population compared with the European population, in the most easterly catchment area served by Tauranga Hospital in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty. Method: Over the last year we have become aware of five cases of Capgras syndrome in our catchment area. This area (population nearly 21 000) consists of a rapidly expanding new suburb of the city of Tauranga and a rural area extending 55 km east of the city. These figures were compared with those of the westerly catchment area served by Tauranga Hospital, where the psychiatric team is not aware of any examples of Capgras syndrome among their population. The 1996 census figures were obtained in order to calculate a population ethnicity breakdown. Results: Five cases of Capgras syndrome were identified in the most easterly catchment area where 19% of the population identified as Maori, 75% as European and 6% as other or non-specified. All of the cases occurred in Maori patients. This compares with no identified cases of Capgras syndrome in the most westerly catchment area where 12% of the population identified as Maori, 87% as European and 1% as other or non-specified. Four out of five cases were female. Two cases had a history of cannabis use. Three cases had exhibited dangerous behaviour towards family members. Conclusions: There is an apparently greater incidence of Capgras syndrome among the New Zealand Maori population compared with the European population in the most easterly catchment area served by Tauranga Hospital. In our population Capgras syndrome is a common, not rare, feature of psychotic illness, and the cases support a previously reported association of this syndrome with dangerousness.

Life‐course trajectories of cannabis use: a latent class analysis of a New Zealand birth cohort

Addiction ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Boden ◽  
Bhubaneswor Dhakal ◽  
James A. Foulds ◽  
L. John Horwood
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Latent Class Analysis ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Class Analysis
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