Cocaine

Date: 1980-1989

From: [New Zealand ephemera of octavo size, relating to narcotics, drugs, drug abuse, party pills, substance abuse]

Reference: Eph-A-NARCOTICS-1980s

Description: Includes: 1980s: Let's do something now. Support R.T.N.Z. Drug Awareness. [Sticker. 1980s] 1982: Drugs kill; some facts about drugs [prepared by the Director of the Anchorage Rehabilitation Hostels. 1982] My friends are dying! Based on the best seller by Ray Comfort. Now shawing. Concert Chamber, 28 August [1982] National Society on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence New Zealand Inc. Facts about cannabis [1982?] (2 copies) 1984: NORML. Cannabis prohibition in New Zealand; the facts. 1984 1985: New Zealand Department of Health. Solvent abuse. "What to do if they're sniffing glue. Information for parents. Department of Health, New Zealand, 1985. Code 4153. (2 copies) 1986: National Society on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence New Zealand Inc. Crack cocaine, Methyl Benzolecgonine ... "low margin of safety". [1986] 1987: New Zealand Department of Health. Solvent abuse. "What to do if they're sniffing glue. Information for parents. Department of Health, New Zealand, 1987. Code 4153. Young people need help to break the glue sniffing habit [1987] 1989: Hank S Jansen, NORML, Wellington. Marijuana & your freedom; cost of prohibition. January 1989 National Society on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence New Zealand Inc. Ecstasy, crank, the amphetamines; an NSAD information leaflet [1989?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 8 August 2005

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-281

Description: Shows a celebrity wearing dark sunglasses, chains and a jacket, holding up a mirror covered in cocaine, a straw and a razor blade. Refers to celebrity drug use and the ability to get away with anything. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 340 mm

Date: 2000

From: Hubbard, Jim 1949-:47 original cartoons published variously in the Dominion, Bay of Plenty Times, Hawke's Bay Today, Southland Times during 2000.

Reference: A-350-053

Description: Shows Mark Todd on a horse, with a member of the New Zealand Olympic Committee behind him. They are looking at a show jumping fence with particularly high sides, and three cross-bars at different heights, all reading 'Olympic ideals' Context: A reference to allegations that Todd was photographed taking cocaine, which he would neither confirm or deny, and from which he was cleared before the Games. The matter was exacerbated by comments from Eventing New Zealand selector Joan McCall, who dismissed the allegations as irrelevant Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Jim Hubbard; Verso - top right - Dominion 3/8/00 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and marker pen drawing, 230 x 310 mm on sheet 300 x 420 mm

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0026668

Description: Accompanying note from cartoonist states, "Rob Ford, Mayor of Toronto, opens his mouth and out comes a form of drug-induced spin." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023307

Description: Shows two farmers discussing cocaine found in a shipment of Fonterra milk powder. Refers to Algerian police seizing 165kg of cocaine hidden in a container of powdered milk sent from New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026888

Description: Nigella Lawson cuts two lines of cocaine with her credit card and explains 'When I gave my assistants a credit card I didn't realise they could use them t buy things...' According to sisters Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, who had worked for Nigella for more than a decade, the celebrity chef was a drug addict. In december 2013 the sisters were tried for fraud, having stolen $1.38 million using credit cards given to them by Nigella and her ex-husband, millionaire art dealer Charles Saatchi. Nigella Lawson was accused of having been addicted to taking cocaine, a common way being to 'cut' the poweder into two 'lines' for sniffing by dividing with a credit card. Colour and black and white versions are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Facebook (Firm); Twitter Inc (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0026885

Description: Commentary from the artist reads "What we are being served up in the London courts about Nigella Lawson's drug use, her husband's 'throttling' of her at a restaurant, and the alleged plundering of the credit cards by the home help, is distasteful, unsavoury, and sick-making." Cartoon depicts Nigella Lawson eyeing a bottle of 'coke', Charles Saatchi, labelled 'Sushi and Saatchi', throttling a chicken and greeting the reader thus: 'Welcome to Higella's kitchen!!',, and the Grillo sisters, Elisabetta and Francesca, asking 'How do you like your credit card - fried or grilled?'. The term 'Higella' was coined by Charles Saatchi to describe Nigella when she was 'high' on cocaine. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0000063

Description: Caricature of David Henderson, property developer who has been labelled by a judge, a cocaine user, was refused a discharge without conviction and given a nine-month suspended sentence. His lawyer, Paul Dale, last week sought a discharge without conviction because of the impact a drug conviction would have on Henderson's Kitchener Group, a property development company. There is a degree of outrage at what is seen as different treatment for the poor and the rich. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0011855

Description: A young man with a tennis racket in his hand holds a girl in a clinch and appears to be sucking her whole face off. She wonders if he is 'snorting a line' or is just happy to see her. Refers to a French tennis player arrested for cocaine on his breath from kissing a woman... Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0008748

Description: Shows a line of passengers coming off a plane in Sydney. A customs officer notices a man with a skate board on each foot and thinks that his son would be interested in that and so plans to check the brand. The news item is about a man smuggling cocaine in two skate boards. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0010805

Description: One smuggler smashes his leg so that he will be able to use a solid cocaine plaster cast, a second smuggler smashes both legs so that he can use two casts and a third extremely greedy smuggler decides to shoot himself so that he can be carried in a solid cocaine coffin. Published in Shipping Gazette Quantity: 4 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2004

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-301

Description: A man is making a call to the polic on the phone but his speech is unintelligible. He is pointing to a can of orange juice. Extended Title - Othither, mah thung ith nub! I'b juth thib uk cad ob odge! Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2009

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0010592

Description: An alligator with a small submarine in its mouth that is providing it with power wonders if they have reached their destination yet. They are passing a 'Prime sub Mart' on the the bank of the river. Refers to a news item about small subs being used to ship Columbia's cocaine to the United States. Other Titles - Cocaine Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-234

Description: Shows a Venezuelan policeman holding up a bottle of 'Cat's Claw' to a press conference. The bottle has a picture of a cat on it. With his other hand the policeman is patting a sniffer dog who is confiding to another dog that he didn't smell the drugs but barked at the picture of the cat. Extended Title - Carumba! I didn't know they contained drugs! I just barked at the picture on the label. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2004

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0004182

Description: Shows a storeman in Miami with his tongue sticking out phoning the police in deep distress because his tongue has gone numb after sipping orange from a can. The orange was liquid cocaine. Published in Shipping Gazette Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called 'SG' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013062

Description: Shows a celebrity wearing dark sunglasses, chains and a jacket, holding up a mirror covered in cocaine, a straw and a razor blade. Refers to celebrity drug use and the ability to get away with anything. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).