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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : HELPFUL or HARMFUL One in ten New Zealanders use cannabis. Half take it for medicinal purposes. Should the drug be legalised? CONTENTS : Departments : EDITORIAL -- GeoNEWS Mars, lizards, de-extinction -- WEATHER Wildfires -- ARTEFACT HOME REMEDIES -- VIEWFINDER Papua New Guinea -- PROFILE Kathy Campbell -- LIFE Suicide -- BOOKS Totara, Built on Bones -- HISTORY Standard Time -- IN THE FIELD Peter Meecham -- ON REFLECTION The order of things
CONTENTS : Features :
TROUBLED WATERS Swimmable rivers or more hooves on pastures? Is there a way of improving water quality without paralysing the primary sector - or has agriculture reached an environmental tipping point?
INTO THE WEEDS Cannabis is undergoing a radical image makeover, as debate rages over its safety and medical efficacy.
A NIGHT AT THE GLOBE Pacific costume, dance and language bring a 400-year-old play to life in Auckland.
HUNTING OF THE SNIPE An unlikely crew is given the assignment of catching birds in butterfly nets on a weather-beaten subantarctic island.