New Zealand votes to legalise euthanasia - but not marijuana - Sky News New Zealand has voted to legalise euthanasia, but looks set to reject a legal bid to allow the recreational use of marijuana. Two referendums took place at the same time as the general election that saw Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern win a second term this month. The first vote on assisted dying has already secured enough "yes" ballots - 65.2% - to become law, meaning New Zealand will become the seventh country in the world to legalise euthanasia. But with almost half a million postal votes yet to be counted, 53.1% of New Zealanders have voted against joining Canada and Uruguay in making cannabis legal, the electoral commission said on Friday. As a result of the vote on assisted dying, from November 2021, terminally ill patients with less than six months to live will be allowed to arrange their own death. Advertisement They must be 18 and have the approval of two doctors, newly passe...
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