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Don Brash

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Don Brash is an economic and financial policy adviser, and a former Governor of the Reserve Bank, leader of the National Party and leader of the ACT Party.

A customer (not Don Brash) inspects the wares s shop for marijuana at Top Shelf Cannabis, a retail marijuana store, on July 8, 2014 in Bellingham, Washington. Top Shelf Cannabis was the first retail marijuana store to open today in Washington state, nearly a year and a half after the state’s voters chose to legalize marijuana. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)

People thought I was high when I said it was time to legalise pot. Now, the mood is changing fast

Opinion: Less than five years after a widely mocked speech, support for drug liberalisation is quickly becoming a mainstream position, writes former ACT leader Don Brash.

By Don Brash | 6th April, 2016