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While some Māori leaders strongly discouraged the use of both, they soon became currency in trade. And all can now be purchased from specialist ethnobotanical suppliers and turn up occasionally in reports in the forums of drug experience sites like Bluelight and The Shroomery.īut there’s no evidence these plants were used outside of a medical context by Māori, who were vulnerable when tobacco and alcohol were introduced by European visitors in the late 18th century. Kawakawa (a relative of kava), pukatea (containing the analgesic alkaloid pukateine, which has a similar chemical structure to morphine) and radula marginata (a species of liverwort containing the cannabinoid perrottetinene) were all used as rongoā, or traditional Māori medicines. This does not necessarily mean they had no use for psychoactive substances. The accepted view is that, before the arrival of Europeans, Māori were one of the few societies that had no intoxicants. We were virtually born into binge drinking as a nation.Īnd it all started from… nothing. We were the world’s keenest consumers of LSD for years and continue to sit near the top of the table for amphetamines, MDMA and cannabis. We have led the world in seeking new ways to curb the use of some – and in our prodigious national appetite for others. New Zealand has a prominent place in many of the global narratives around psychoactive drugs. Just when did people living in the land of the long white cloud begin using drugs? What turned them on? And off? When were the rules changed? Russell Brown surveys the long history of imbibing in Aotearoa New Zealand New Zealand’s history of drugs and the laws to control them
Briefing to the Incoming Parliament 2020.