By Simon Shepherd

A man who has been operating a cannabis club in west Auckland for the last year plans to set up similar clubs throughout the country.

He calls himself “Dakta Green”, and claims his members have been freely flouting the law until police raided his house last week.

Members of the “Daktory” club, run by Mr Green, pay a fee to smoke cannabis.

“The objective when we opened this was to show the people of New Zealand, and the members of Parliament, that it’s possible to have a group of people from our culture get together and there wouldn’t be any trouble in the community,” he says.

Mr Green, previous name Ken Morgan, has been running Daktory for more than a year. At one stage he sold almost 20 types of cannabis, and claims he had 2,000 members.

“Our oldest member is in their late 70’s and our youngest members is not past 18,” he says.

There are no drugs there now – police raided the property last week, and also charged Green with cultivation.

Police could not be reached for comment today, but Green says he is not deterred – he’s got expansion plans.

As a member of the Pro Legislation Lobby he wants to set up similar clubs around the country.

“We will be heading on tour next month and visiting cities over the country, going to Parliament, and telling Parliament it’s time to stop this ridiculous nonsense,” Green says.

But first, Green will have to face court tomorrow.

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also on the subject (plus video)

http://thedaktory.org.nz/news/dakta-green-vs-police/

New Zealand Police mounted a three day operation against The Daktory last Thursday, Friday,and Saturday. (31st December 2009, 1st and 2nd January 2010)

This involved Police parking up the street then following and stopping our members as they left The Daktory.

For some reason Police think they have the right to randomly stop and search people and vehicles for no other reason but they were departing The Daktory. “A known cannabis haunt”, according to Police.

Unfortunately for Police, their actions are illegal and a formal complaint is being prepared.

After suffering this nonsense for 2 days a plan was hatched should Police return for a third day. They did and the plan was implemented to perfection. The plan was simple. Dakta Green would drive away from The Daktory (his home and current court approved bail address) driving another members car with that member in the passenger seat and a cameraman filming from the rear seat he would circle the block and pull up back outside The Daktory. Would Police take the bait? They sure did.

Unlawful behavior by Police officers is never acceptable in a free and democratic society. Even if they are trying to catch ‘bad’ guys, Police must at all times comply with the law.

‘Tipping out’ cars and searching the occupants for no reason other than they have left The Daktory is illegal.

See you in Court

Dakta Green