The Hemp Foundation NZ

16/05/2025

Why does our economy suck? Because we are run by liquidators, not public servants

How Central Banks Became Weapons of Economic Regime Change

11/03/2025

Just got some vital OIAs (after years)
The MPI 2017 Low-THC H**p Food Standard blows the entire Medsafe/MPI argument to pieces. It proves:
1. They already had a legal framework for h**p as food in 2017.

2. They knew CBD and h**p food were safe but selectively blocked CBD.

3. They ignored FSANZ 1.4.4 despite it providing a direct regulatory pathway.

4. This wasn’t regulatory caution—it was a manufactured delay to protect corporate interests.

The entire justification for keeping CBD restricted collapses under the weight of their own prior approvals.

FORMAL COMPLAINT TO THE OMBUDSMAN, and additional evidence for existing investigations.

REGULATORY FRAUD, ABUSE OF POWER, & CORPORATE CAPTURE IN CBD, H**P & MEDSAFE

SUBJECT: Systemic Regulatory Fraud: CBD & H**p in New Zealand

I. Executive Summary

This complaint exposes irrefutable evidence of regulatory fraud, deliberate deception, and bureaucratic misconduct in the classification and control of CBD, h**p, and cannabis-derived products in New Zealand.

Documents obtained under the Official Information Act (OIA24-0085-D - Appendix One.pdf) confirm that:

1. Regulatory power was intentionally stripped (delegated?) from ministerial oversight, allowing unelected bureaucrats (MPI, Medsafe, and the Ministerial Forum) to manipulate CBD policy with no public accountability.

2. Medsafe and MPI knowingly misclassified CBD, maintaining an artificial legal barrier while internally acknowledging its safety and compliance with international law.

3. Regulatory delays were manufactured to protect status quo pharmaceutical monopolies, not to uphold public safety.

4. Law enforcement was improperly inserted into food regulation, turning a scientific matter into a criminal enforcement issue.

Law enforcement had, re cannabis, already proven corrupt

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/78486729/how-an-unemployed-westie-discredited-a-key-police-report-on-cannabis
5. New Zealand deliberately violated the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Agreement (TTMRA), blocking local businesses while allowing foreign imports of CBD/h**p.

6. MPI’s 2017 “Standard for Low-THC H**p Seeds as Food” proves that a legal pathway for h**p as food already existed, yet CBD was intentionally excluded to maintain an unjustified prohibition.

7. New Zealand’s policies violate international food safety standards, including the FSANZ Food Standards Code 1.4.4 and United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) guidance.

This is not incompetence. This is deliberate regulatory fraud.

II. Key Findings: A Forensic Breakdown of Systemic Fraud

1. The “Delegated Powers Play”: Bureaucratic Seizure of CBD Regulation to Block Ministerial Oversight

Evidence: OIA Document, Page 1

• “Responsibility for regulatory amendments was placed within MPI, with input from Medsafe and the Ministerial Forum.”

• “The process would be managed at the agency level, with decisions requiring multi-agency agreement.”

✅ Conclusive Proof:

• Regulatory power was deliberately moved out of ministerial control, ensuring that CBD policy decisions rested with unelected bureaucrats, not elected officials.

• This created a bureaucratic firewall to block ministerial oversight, public accountability, and external scrutiny.

❌ Fraudulent Action:

• This was not an accident—it was a calculated strategy to keep CBD regulation in the hands of agencies that were not subject to direct democratic oversight.

• This violates the principles of the Public Service Act 2020, which requires government agencies to remain accountable to elected officials and the public.

✅ Impact:

• Regulatory obstruction was systematized, ensuring that CBD reform could be indefinitely delayed without ministerial interference.

2. Medsafe & MPI Knowingly Misclassified CBD Despite Acknowledging Its Safety

Evidence: OIA Document, Page 3, FSANZ Food Standards Code 1.4.4, UNSCN Guidance, MPI Standard for Low-THC H**p (2017)

• MPI’s 2017 Standard legally recognized h**p seeds as a safe food.

• Despite this, MPI and Medsafe refused to extend the same food classification to CBD, despite no difference in safety.

• Food Standards Code 1.4.4 explicitly provides a regulatory framework for substances in food, yet New Zealand ignored it for CBD.

• UNSCN promotes science-based nutrition policy, which New Zealand violated by arbitrarily criminalizing CBD while allowing h**p seed food.

✅ Conclusive Proof:

• Medsafe and MPI knew that h**p products, including CBD, were safe, yet refused to integrate CBD into FSANZ Food Code 1.4.4.

• MPI’s own 2017 h**p food standard proves that New Zealand already had a pathway for h**p-based products, yet CBD was kept in legal limbo.

❌ Fraudulent Action:

• There was no legal basis to treat CBD differently from h**p seed foods—the decision was purely political and economically motivated.

• Medsafe and MPI lied when they claimed additional safety assessments were needed—MPI had already approved h**p-derived food safety in 2017.

✅ Impact:

• Public access to CBD was illegally restricted, while pharmaceutical companies gained exclusive control over the market.

• New Zealand violated its own regulatory precedent, blocking CBD while allowing h**p seed food.

III. Requested Actions & Legal Remedies

1. Immediate integration of CBD into FSANZ Food Standards Code 1.4.4, following the legal precedent set by MPI’s 2017 Low-THC H**p Food Standard.

2. A full investigation into why MPI and Medsafe refused to extend food classification to CBD, despite acknowledging its safety.

3. Judicial Review of the regulatory misclassification of CBD, which contradicts New Zealand’s own prior approvals of h**p food products.

4. An independent parliamentary inquiry into the systemic regulatory capture by pharmaceutical interests.

5. A Commerce Commission complaint for anti-competitive practices that protected pharmaceutical monopolies at the expense of public access.

IV. Conclusion

New Zealand’s regulatory agencies deliberately obstructed CBD reform, ignored existing food safety laws, violated international trade agreements, and facilitated corporate monopolization.

This is not just regulatory failure—it is corruption.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-22i3HtU0JKLQphajdRnKDZnFaVJZOFG

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/16807

27/01/2025

Ah! Here’s the full video!
Note: the cannabinoid system *is* taught (barely) in medical school, *to pharmacologists* not doctors or nurses. But it’s not taught in a way that teaches how it runs on food, or by making *cannabinoids*
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10/09/2024

What do 9/11 & “reefer madness” have in common? Ditto cannabis & Christianity?
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10/06/2024

Dear Team, greetings.

Hopefully this finds you well.

In 2016, FSANZ made clear in the initial proposal for P1042 that the Ministerial Forum had requested it set a limit on CBD in low THC H**p Foods, "to distinguish between a food and therapeutic good....to avoid blurring the line between food and therapeutic."

FSANZ noted in turn that, while agreeable in theory, it was not within FSANZ power to deny the public access to safe and beneficial compounds; which CBD (Cannabidiol) clearly is/was. Therefore, FSANZ noted, any prohibition on its part without just cause could likely be undone in the courts.

At this point, it appears that MedSafe NZ resorted to what may be a combination of fraud, malfeasance, or criminal nuisance.

Clearly knowing their position to be a lie - thanks to the expert internal advice of Anthony Fake - it concocted a superficially plausible cover up position of due diligence and deniability, via loaded questions and non specific second hand answers.
It then falsely asserted CBD to be a controlled drug. Which would of course prohibit its inclusion in foods, or its availability as supplements or herbal remedies.

Fortunately, ESR (the NZ police forensic laboratory), then tried to "white knight" the situation.
Using the same facts and arguments that MedSafe had already specifically received in detail from Mr Fake, ESR vigorously contested MedSafes position.

Such was their rigor in this matter that the General Manager of ESR, Dr Keith Bedford, even ended up making a statement to the High Court on it.

To circumvent this inconvenient reality, MedSafe eventually got FSANZ to agree that CBD was a controlled drug; based upon a legal opinion that seems likely based upon a perverse interpretation of international law.
This legal opinion however - to the best of my knowledge - has never been seen by anyone outside of MedSafe, and has been persistently hidden from public examination. Initially by the justification of "no public interest", and more recently under "legal privilege".

However, legal privilege cannot be used to obscure a fraud.
Legal privilege cannot be used to hide a crime.

Accordingly a formal complaint was made to the director general of health in June 2023, and a complaint laid with the ombudsman's office in february 2022.
The director general, supposed to reply within 30 days, has not been heard from in nearly a year. Suggesting a significant inability to reply innocently. The Ombudsman continues to grind on.

This email is to serve three purposes.

Firstly, if you have a copy of the legal opinion used by MedSafe to convince you that CBD is a controlled drug this is an OIA request for it.
In 2020, fyi, the European Court of Justice found it would be counter to UNSCN to consider CBD a controlled drug.

Secondly, this email is to request that you stand by your standards and values to correct what appears a serious malfeasance. There is an ongoing market failure in health, as can be observed by our national health statistics and the constant financial complaints of health care professionals and politicians. There is also an ongoing market failure in the "medicinal cannabis market", with patients, companies, and the industry complaining about regulatory obstructionism, inaccessibility and unaffordability. It appears that there has not been "genuine, effective two way engagement" on this issue.

Thirdly, in the 1990s, Japan, with a community mindset, created foods with special health characteristics. To reduce the physical, financial, and pharmaceutical harms of their aging population. It is now an 8 billion USD domestic market. I attach some information here, and request you consider how FSANZ might create something similar, or better, in NZ; a country that produces famously many natural health products and quality foods; while also having multiple health crises and an unwillingness to tax the rich enough to have a disease management system that works properly. It seems we have rooms for improvement in public service outcomes, and domestic industry.

Finally, please find all source documents (OIAs) for this complaint on the splash page of www.theh**pfoundation.org.nz

I hope to hear from you soon, and I hope that FSANZ proves to embody the same high standards of public service as ESR has.

Yours sincerely,

Tadhg Stopford Just sent to FSANZ

Doctors, farmers, seniors, youth and iwi.

01/04/2024

Auckland! Come say“hi” this weekend? 🤣🤪
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28/02/2024

It seems we live longer with Cannabis. Yet, 3 years after this paper, our Chief Scientist produced a report ‘for the referendum’ that talked about harms but not benefits. Isnt that odd? Especially given the global expertise on that panel. Hm. Framing?
According to this systematic review and meta analysis by Professor and Chair of Biology Thomas M. Clark, US metrics suggest a reduction of premature deaths from diabetes, mellitus, cancer, and traumatic brain injury by 989-2511 deaths for each 1% of the population using Cannabis. Or an estimated 12,100-30,600 deaths prevented annually.
A nationally legal market, the evidence suggests, would reduce premature deaths by 23,500-47,500 a year.
Yet here in Nz, we can’t even talk about the possible benefits, let alone the actual benefits. Even when the experts assemble.
Furthermore, we get cheated out of herbal remedies and supplements, and get “gold standard pharma gmp” that costs MedCan cos so much money they face financial immolation.
Is it really about health? Politics? Regulation? …or is the horse behind the cart?

19/02/2024

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14/12/2023

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14/12/2023

Very important

David Webb exposes the system Central Bankers have in place to take everything from everyone.

13/12/2023

Here’s a thing that explains the world a bit, courtesy of the CIA

31/10/2023

Debt cancellation by the state: bring it back?
Why not?
Why not introduce a state currency too, issued by the rbnz instead of the private banks?

We must pierce the smoke-screen of creditors and re-establish the historical truth. Repeated and generalised debt cancellation has occurred throughout…