August 03, 2020
Anti-P crusade takes to the road
A group of "meth vigilantes" have taken their fight on the road.
The Anti-P Ministry, established by former meth addict Brendon Warne, have crowdfunded a bus and are turning it into a mobile addiction support vehicle to help whānau in remote areas kick their P habit.
Mr Warne says the government has not done enough to address the problem, which he traces back to the previous National government opening the door to synthetic cannabis and then closing it again.
"When they realised how sick people were getting and they were poisoning their people and people were dying and people were committing suicide they just ripped this stuff from the shelf and said 'it's illegal now.' They didn't do anything about those people with addictions. They left them and that's were Anti-P Ministry came in. We helped those people on our page, we've seen what they went through," he says.
Brendon Warne says the Anti-P Ministry started by targeting P dealers directly, but it has since become a nation-wide addiction support service with 6,400 members on forums and social media.
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