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The government is being told the time has come for a major overhaul of the drug laws.
Dozens of social service and health organisations - including the Medical Association, Public Health Association and Māori health providers - want drug use to be treated as a health issue.
Twenty-five organisations have written to the government asking for drug laws to be overhauled
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Carly Laughton knows intimately the personal toll a minor drug charge can wreak.
In her late teens she was arrested - she had a cannabis pipe on her - and the stigma of the conviction steered her life onto a difficult path.