A stoush has broken out between Grey Power's national office and the Cannabis Party over a push by a Northland Grey Power group to legalise medicinal marijuana.
In April the Otamatea Grey Power federation put its weight behind the legalise cannabis movement, saying they want to have the choice of dying pain-free.
Otamatea Grey Power president Beverley Aldridge, said she had grown tired of watching friends and family suffer serious illness, while the drugs they were given had side-effects as bad as the symptoms they were designed to treat. Medicinal marijuana, she believed, was the answer.
Grey Power national President Tom O'Connor said at the time the national organisation did not yet have an official stance on medicinal cannabis and would take a science-based approach if the issue was to come before the board. But, he said, local chapters were entitled to take on their own causes.
The Cannabis Party then joined the fray, prompting Mr O'Connor to ring the party's president Abe Gray to tell him to stay out of Grey Power matters.