Bush Lawyer Wiki
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Welcome to BushLawyer
Bush Lawyer is a New Zealand based legal support service for those charged with cannabis offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act or by their workplace.
Do not plead Guilty to unjust laws like the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975.
This website is dedicated to helping defendants challenge cannabis charges in court or otherwise. Standing up to these unjust laws will not only improve the chances of a favourable verdict, but will also add to the growing tide of support for reforming New Zealand's cannabis laws.
Check out this summary of how to beat a cannabis charge.
Clog the courts and help overturn prohibition!
How to use this site
This site is a wiki, similar to wikipedia. You can edit your own pages once you have registered for an account. Everyone else can also edit your pages and you can look at the history to see what they have done. This creates an accountable transparent mode of collaborative editing by which everyone can benefit from the knowledge of everyone else. Create your case by clicking the edit tab above and add your name to the section labeled cases below surrounded by two square brackets on either side. Indicate the changes you have made in the field labeled summary and then click the save page button. You should now see your name in red on the main page, click on your name and you will be taken to the edit screen of a new blank page where you can write down your story. Once you have created your page others will be able to make changes, but you can see what they have done by clicking on the history tab above. By working together our whole community can build the most useful dossiers of every cannabis case prosecuted in New Zealand so we can all learn from the collective experience of prohibition. If you want to ask questions or discuss reasons for particular edits you can click on the discussion tab above any page.
Immediate Advice
1. Don't self incriminate
2. Enter No Plea
3. Request Full Disclosure
4. Then plead Not Guilty
5. Don't blindly waste money on lawyers you can save yourself money and add costs for the police by learning from the information on this website
Main Article: Basic BushLawyer Advice
See Also: Police Oath
Legislation
New Zealand Legislation Official Government Website
Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act 2009
Video Surveillance (Temporary Measures) Bill
Land Transport Amendment Act?
Cases
Current Case Resources
Lawyers
Michael Appleby - wellington
Tony Bouchier - auckand
John Westgate - dunedin
Peter Austin - hastings
Gordon? - chch
Dawn danby's guy in akl?
Jonathan Eaton - Christchurch (Operation Lime)
Craig Tuck - Tauranga (Operation Lime)
Glenn Dixon - Tauranga (Operation Lime)
Dave Sayes - Whangarei (Operation Lime)
Aaron Dooney - Whangarei (Operation Lime)
Andrew Speed - commented to media on problematic aspects of Operation Lime
Steve Bonnar - commented to media on problematic aspects of Operation Lime
Legal Aid
Expert Witnesses
Geoff Noller - Police exaggeration vs actual reality of normal use patterns
Chris Fowlie - reasonable defences
Dawn Danby - Impacts of cannabis prohibition on communities
Mike Nichols - Emeritus Professor of Horticulture, Massey University (plant yields)
Patrick 'Paddy' O'Brien - Former Undercover Drug squad cop, now speaks out against bent tactics of police in drug cases
Ross Meurant - Former cop, comments in the media about how police over hype themselves
Historic Cases
New Zealand Legal Information Institute (awesome database)
Old NORML NZ Roaring Lion page
List of people currently in prison in New Zealand for cannabis offences (brought to you by Cannabis Prisoners of Prohibition)
Peter John Orendowicz - this case sets the precedent that Police can not apply for a search warrant against you just because they saw you shopping at Switched On Gardener see full judgement at http://www.scribd.com/doc/72758754
Non-Cannabis examples of leniency
Julian Casey - Ecstasy dealer gets home detention
Uruwera Case - police video surveillance violates the New Zealand Bill of Rights in the case of "non-serious" crimes
Past Police Operations
Local Police in your area enforcing prohibition
National HQ
Deputy Police Commissioner Rob Pope
Auckland
Detective Inspector Stu Alsopp-Smith - Auckland metro crime operations, was in charge of the Auckland part of Operation Lime
Bay of Plenty
Hawke's Bay
Waikato
Wellington
Nelson
Christchurch
West Coast
Dunedin
Detective Inspector Steve McGregor - Southern District Crime Services Manager
Southland
Police Prosecutors and their track records
Whangarei District Court
Sergeant Graham Ford - tried to impose orwellian bail conditions on Operation Lime defendants
Tauranga District Court
David Pawson - tried to impose orwellian bail conditions on Operation Lime defendants
Christchurch District Court
Constable Michael Tualii - tried to impose orwellian bail conditions on Operation Lime defendants
Judges Ruling on Prohibition
Whangarei District Court
Justice of the Peace Ryan Bruce - threw out Orwellian bail conditions against Operation Lime defendants
Tauranga District Court
Judge Peter Rollo - threw out Orwellian bail conditions against Operation Lime defendants
Christchurch District Court
Judge Patricia Costigan - upheld Orwellian bail conditions against Operation Lime defendants
Workplace Drug Testing
Main Article: Workplace Drug Testing
NORML New Zealand has a really good page outlining information about workplace (or anyplace) drug testing
1. What does your employment contract say?
2. What type of test are we talking about (e.g. hair, urine, blood)?
Drug testing for synthetic cannabinoids
http://cannabis-science.com/drug_testing.html
CYFS/Child Custody
What initiated discussion of suitability to care for children?
Help
You can edit your own page! Here is a quick start guide to the 'wiki markup language' which is the code you must type in for your page to appear properly. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Welcome2WP_English_Flap_081810.pdf
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Creating_pages_with_preloaded_text
http://cannabis-science.com/schlog.html
http://cannabis-science.com/papers/essentialoilcsativa.html
http://cannabis-science.com/aroma_flavor.html
