{"id":12259,"date":"2019-12-19T04:59:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T19:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/new-zealands-euthanasia-and-cannabis-referendums-will-rightly-give-power-to-the-people"},"modified":"2019-12-19T04:59:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T19:59:58","slug":"new-zealands-euthanasia-and-cannabis-referendums-will-rightly-give-power-to-the-people-bryce-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12259","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s euthanasia and cannabis referendums will rightly give power to the people | Bryce Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some politicians may fret about the consequence of a public vote, but with an increasing suspicion of elites, it\u2019s the best way forward <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand will participate in a world-leading double referendum next year when, in addition to the general election, voters will be asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/dec\/18\/new-zealand-to-hold-referendum-on-legalising-recreational-cannabis\">whether to legalise cannabis<\/a> for recreational use and euthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be messy, emotional, and polarised. There\u2019s already a lot of anxiety and negativity about the referendums across the political spectrum. Much of this is influenced by the ongoing fallout from the Brexit referendum, as well as a general fear of conservative populism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/new-zealands-euthanasia-and-cannabis-referendums-will-rightly-give-power-to-the-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some politicians may fret about the consequence of a public vote, but with an increasing suspicion of elites, it\u2019s the best way forward New Zealand will participate in a world-leading double referendum next year when, in addition to the general electio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1002,886,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-assisted-dying","category-cannabis","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12271,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions\/12271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}