\u201cPolice found evidence of cannabis and paraphernalia at one of the properties allegedly believed to be for personal use,\u201d Grainger said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis appears to be outside the authority the licence allowed and amounted to offending against the Misuse of Drugs Act.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe medicinal cannabis licensing system exists to support patients who require cannabis-based products for health reasons, not for someone to allegedly hide behind it for their own personal use and profit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grainger said police were \u201cactively keeping an eye on unlawful sale and supply of drugs\u201d in Canterbury and \u201cwill hold those to account that undermine any systems designed to help vulnerable people\u201d.<\/p>\n
Medical cannabis. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
He said the investigation into the 40-year-old was ongoing.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice are continuing to assess information obtained during the execution of the search warrants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFurther charges or arrests aren\u2019t ruled out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police have also referred the incident to the Medicinal Cannabis Agency, the authority responsible for the licensing scheme.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice remain committed to ensuring New Zealand\u2019s medicinal cannabis regulatory framework operates lawfully and with integrity,\u201d Grainger said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice will continue to work alongside regulatory partners where potential offending is identified.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPolice found evidence of cannabis and paraphernalia at one of the properties allegedly believed to be for personal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51209,74,8843,17285,8126,1873,11581,21137,3401,1757,6119,9881,1874,5158,3523,111,43,139,69,2730,675,814,52095,19862,6306],"class_list":["post-534429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-40yearold","tag-after","tag-believed","tag-cannabis","tag-canterbury","tag-charges","tag-connected","tag-criminal","tag-drug","tag-drugs","tag-faces","tag-facing","tag-found","tag-man","tag-medical","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal","tag-police","tag-property","tag-supplier","tag-supply","tag-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}