It's also wildly hypocritical regarding cannabis, which is just as much a drug and could provide huge tax windfalls besides cutting out the gang profits and enf

It's also wildly hypocritical regarding cannabis, which is just as much a drug and could provide huge tax windfalls besides cutting out the gang profits and enforcing safety/quality standards, but nooooo, just can't do that, simply impossible. (Also New Zealander here, weird how many of us suddenly appear to post!)