Police v Richmond - [1989] 1 NZLR 508

Criminal law — Offences — Smoking cannabis — When accosted by police the defendant swallowed the cigarette he was smoking and prosecution was unable to prove that the material smoked was cannabis containing resin — Whether, on charge of smoking cannabis, prosecution must prove that the cannabis contained resin — Whether suspicious and furtive behaviour, in the absence of any concession by defendant that he had been smoking cannabis, justified a conviction for attempting to smoke cannabis — Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, ss 2 and 7.