COMMENT:
The Prime Minister was at the polling booth last Saturday, and her party vote was a given. Yet still, on the cannabis referendum, she remains Garbo-like about her preference and it’s being treated as a mystery. Is it, though? Or has she been hiding her view in plain sight all along? There are clues.
Threading together her comments over the years, what emerges is a picture of someone who would surely be drawn to voting yes.
In election debates she has invited people to “read between the lines.” Last week she elaborated on the comment “I was once a Mormon, then I wasn’t” to confirm she had, “a long time ago” done the same thing more than two thirds of her fellow New Zealanders have done.
In particular, there are her words last year on The AM Show: “I grew up in a town where I saw young people easily access cannabis, and I saw the impact it had on their education, so that worries me. At the same time, I don’t think people should be criminalised and imprisoned.”
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