“..Prime Minister John Key has warned tourism operators that if they do not clean up drug use in their industry, the Government will do it for them by imposing mandatory drug testing.
Speaking to the Tourism Industry Association, Mr Key told operators New Zealand could not afford worldwide headlines such as those that followed the fatal Carterton hot air balloon crash in January and the 2010 plane crash near Fox Glacier which took nine lives.
Mr Key said it was unacceptable cannabis was found in the system of the hot air balloon pilot and two skydiving instructors in the Fox Glacier crash -
- although it was not considered the cause of the accidents..”
(ed:..so..to summarise..key is stirring/whipping up a new moral panic over cannabis-use…using air accidents..
..where it is acknowledged by investigators of said accidents..cannabis was ‘not considered the cause of the accidents’..?
..right ho..!..
..not much unmitigated bullshit from key there..eh..?)
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Clean up drugs in tourism or we’ll do it for you, says PM – National – NZ Herald News.
