Helen Clark talks about Cannabis election 08

Prime Minister of NZ Helen Clark answers a question about cannabis policy. She is speaking at the University of Otago as part of the 2008 NZ Election campaign.

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"In my view the greatest killers in our country are actually tobacco and alcohol with its effects on the road.

"But the rub is given the harm of those perfectly legal drugs at the moment and tobacco is one where used as intended it does kill a significant number of people who use it. There's obvioulsy considerable relectaunce to actually legalise others but I think we need to have a continuing and rational deabate about what the best form of the law is and look at what's happening in other western countries where there is a wider range of approaches," Helen Clark said.