Man Sparks Joint in New Zealand Parliament
June 18th, 2009 by Rick
Meanwhile, way down under, in New Zealand…
Around 5:30pm, during the second reading of the Resource Management (Climate Protection) Amendment Bill in the Parliament building, an unidentified man briefly lit up a marijuana joint and smoked it in the public gallery until he was whisked by security and hauled away. The man then was taken into custody by Wellington police.
Warren Inkster, spokesman for Parliamentary Services, said that there was no resistance and that aside from the building having a no smoking zone and the man breaking drug laws:
Parliamentary codes of conduct surrounding behaviour in the chamber would have been broken.
Wellington police provided no further details and Parliamentary police have been unavailable to comment.
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