{"id":69799,"date":"2025-03-03T12:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/03\/gandalf-alleged-sale-medicinal-cannabis-new-zealand-charges-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:45:46","slug":"gandalf-accused-of-selling-illegal-medicinal-cannabis-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69799","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gandalf\u2019 accused of selling illegal medicinal cannabis in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outrage over targeting of one of New Zealand\u2019s alleged \u2018green fairies\u2019 who provide cheaper medicinal cannabis without prescription<\/p>\n<p>Police have shut down the alleged medicinal cannabis operation of one of New Zealand\u2019s most renowned \u201cgreen fairies\u201d, prompting an outpouring of support from a prominent politician and the hundreds of people who rely on such products to ease their pain.<\/p>\n<p>Police raided the rural Northland property of 66-year-old Paul Smith \u2013 more widely known as \u201cGandalf\u201d \u2013 last week, destroying plants and greenhouses and<strong> <\/strong>seizing cannabis products. Smith was charged with cultivating, possessing for supply and selling cannabis \u2013 which could carry an eight-year jail sentence \u2013 and was summonsed to court.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/03\/gandalf-alleged-sale-medicinal-cannabis-new-zealand-charges-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outrage over targeting of one of New Zealand\u2019s alleged \u2018green fairies\u2019 who provide cheaper medicinal cannabis without prescriptionPolice have shut down the alleged medicinal cannabis operation of one of New Zealand\u2019s most renowned \u201cgreen fairies\u201d, prom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69799","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69800,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69799\/revisions\/69800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}