All-night candlelight vigil in solidarity with the victims of our drug war & in support of cannabis law reform.

We want to make the public aware that the war on drugs has failed and that we must find new ways to minimise drug harms, and new create policies, based on scientific evidence.

50 years ago, governments around the world, led by the US, made it illegal to produce sell, or possess certain drugs.A war on drugs was supposedly begun to protect us, but drug prohibition doesn't work, and never will. Despite spending more than a trillion dollars (now at-least $100 billion every year) The global demand for drugs has swelled to the point where 240 million people use them worldwide. Rather than control drugs, prohibition hands the trade to organised criminals who are now in charge of a market with a turnover of $320 billion a year.

A group of us will be holding an all-night vigil outside the Auckland District Court from 6pm until 10amthe next day when will we go into the court in solidarity with the 'Daktory Three' Dakta Green, Gizella van Trigt & Stefan Bower to support them during their sentencing.

The Daktory was NZ's first R18 cannabis club catering for the sale & consumption of cannabis in Auckland, The Daktory operated in open defiance of New Zealand drug legislation as an act of non-violent civil disobidience against cannabis prohibition.

Police raided The Daktory in 2012, earlier this year the three activists were found guilty of various cannabis related charges with all three facing possible jail sentences.

Sentencing will be TOMORROW 22nd of April 9:30am at the Auckland District Court.

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