It looks like the Green Party is starting to haemorrhage support for one of their most important policies, the right to blaze up willy nilly.
According to the latest in a series of three surveys commissioned by New Zealand’s largest licensed medicinal cannabis company Helius Therapeutics, Green Party voters who said they would vote yes in the upcoming cannabis referendum dropped from 83 per cent in the April survey, to 64 per cent in the latest poll.
Now I’m not one to place much credence on a survey commissioned by an entity with a vested interest in the outcome, but at least the surveys are the same so should at least show the trends reasonably accurately, and the Greens will no doubt be worried as the trends are definitely negative.
Possibly they will be less worried about their own support flagging though as the biggest threat to their plans for getting the country wasted would seem to be the fact that support in general for legalised marijuana has also plummeted.
Just 39 per cent of responders to a new survey said that they will vote yes. This is massively down from 52% in April and 60% back in November.
Oh dear, if the ‘reeferendum’ comes out with numbers like this it will be a very clear message to the government that the general public in New Zealand does not support their silly liberal policies.
At the end of the day, there are a lot of normal folk out there who don’t think it will be good for their businesses, families etc to be surrounded by stoners.
For the record, the main stats are below:
• All respondents:
39% for
47% against
14% have no opinion
• Sex:
Male 39% for
Female 40% for
• Age group:
18–24 years 56% for
25–34 years 50% for
35–44 years 33% for
45–54 years 39% for
55–64 years 27% for
65–74 years 35% for
• Party vote 2017:
ACT 58% for / 25% against
Green Party 64% for / 31% against
Labour 46% for / 40% against
National 27% for / 64% against
NZ First 47% for / 42% against
– The Horizon Research poll was commissioned by Helius Therapeutics and surveyed the views of 1003 New Zealanders aged 18 and above
Perhaps they should have just gone with trying to get medical cannabis use across the line first rather than going for full-on decriminalisation.
