Team Human

Last Friday at 1.30pm we were at the Rawene waterfront. We were tuned to National Radio to listen to the Imam call for prayers and the two-minute silence called for by Jacinda Ardern.

On the approach to Rawene, the ferry, Kohu Ra, stopped on its journey. The silence was powerful and soothing. Thank you to the ferry crew for their touching action.

This reminds us of what Team Human can achieve. Look at the website and join the Team. MARCEL POULY

Norma Lyon right to choose whether or not to vaccinate are murderers.

We have compulsory medication with fluoride in our public water supplies – another human rights breach.

Empathy is demonstrated – from the top down. How can we expect to have empathy for others if we are not treated with empathy ourselves. People are still having their cannabis medicine taken by police raids on their property. These people are sick, pharmaceutical drugs do not work, some are in palliative care, and they are forced to remain sick, in pain, and die painfully.

Kindness must be followed by actions. This is not demonstrating kindness. Otherwise it is double-speak, and encourages those in the majority to enforce their views on others.

Georgia, with a population of 3.7 million, in the Eastern bloc, not known for granting human rights, has legalised cannabis, acknowledging it is a human right. Yet our human right to grow our own medicine remains illegal.

We no longer believe our ‘democracy’ is government of the people by the people for the people.

We also mourn the continuing deaths of thousands of New Zealanders who are denied their human right to grow their own plants for their own health. In the last 60 years, hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders have died, and died painfully, because of governments’ denying our human right to grow our own cannabis.

We demand all MPs consider their hypocrisy if they continue to prohibit this God-given cannabis plant and continue to cause thousands of deaths per

year because our endocannabinoid systems are now running on empty. Doctors who refuse to prescribe cannabis need to do their research.

Growing cannabis for our health’s sake is our human right.

BEVERLEY ALDRIDGE, KATHLEEN PATTINSON

Seniors’ Voice Otamatea

country’s mood of love, support and tolerance after the horrific terrorist attack in Christchurch.

We need to be looking to the future, politely debating how to move our country forward while protecting all our people. We do not need to resort to troublemaking about what did or didn’t happen hundreds of years ago.

FIONA MACKENZIE

Whangaparaoa