Controlling and regulating drugs

This Law Commission report includes a history of drug regulation in New Zealand (PDF, 3.67 MB).

Drug use in New Zealand

This paper by Chris Wilkins, Sally Casswell, Krishna Bhatta and Megan Pledger compares two surveys of drug use from 1998 and 2001 (PDF, 85 KB).

Eldred-Grigg, Stevan. Pleasures of the flesh: sex and drugs in colonial New Zealand, 1840–1915. Wellington: Reed, 1984.

Ng, James. Windows on a Chinese past. Vol. 2. Dunedin: Otago Heritage Books, 1995.

Yska, Redmer. New Zealand green: the story of marijuana in New Zealand. Auckland: David Bateman, 1990.