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SIX HOUR RACE: Team USA, from left, Tommy Winnington, Lloyd Elston, Cam Moore and Jude Saxon were the best dressed team in the Kaiteriteri SixHour Mountainbike Race. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
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Riders enjoy big day out Simon Bloomberg
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Three hundred and sixty-five riders completed 1190 laps, or 10,115km and 184,000 metres, of vertical climbing and had a blast doing it at the Port
Nelson Kaiteriteri Six Hour Mountainbike Relay on Saturday. The popular event attracted riders of all ages and abilities, with a super-fast solo rider Henry Jaine leading the charge,
completing 14 laps in 5 hours 47 minutes and 30 seconds. Incredibly, that was the best performance of the day with the top men’s
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Cannabis handed out in City Brittany Spencer Reporter
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Medicinal cannabis samples were being handed out left, right, and centre below Nelson's Cathedral on Saturday.
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Edibles, balms, capsules, and chocolates were all on offer for the people who wafted through Trafalgar Street’s 1903 Square during a rally to support making the drug legal for medicinal purposes. Campaigner Karen Sim says the
aim of the rally was to get a few people talking and thinking and to educate people on medicinal cannabis. “From the time we got here we’ve had people come up, ask questions and say, ‘good on you’ and that’s what we want, for people to openly talk about it, to
take away the mystique so its not something that's hidden away.” The rally was held in conjunction with a pro-medicinal cannabis march along Auckland’s Queen St and left organisers hoping that with a nationwide change of attitude and voting, medicinal
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cannabis could become legal for those who need it. A local woman fighting cancer, who did not wish to be named in the newspaper, says it works for her.
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