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  • Hard News: The McCully Touch,

    I see Owen McShane, who stoutly defended Tony Veitch's right to buy his way out of a series of nasty assaults on his girlfriend, is at it again in Kiwiblog comments:
    Someone once said “An ambassador is someone who lies abroad for his country.”
    Andy obviously cannot be an Ambassador because he told the truth.
    It’s in the language for goodness sake – Rock Groupies, Star Fxxxxxs, Media whores etc etc.
    What a revolting little man he is.

    The rest of the echo-chamber comments on KIwiblog are virtually identical and are exactly the type of criticism McCully was afraid of.

    McCully and his spin-doctors harnessed this lot as part of their party political machine and are afraid of the backlash, that's why he dithers.

    Since Apr 2010 • 24 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: The McCully Touch,

    That there is a constituency in New Zealand that thinks – as it did the first time Haden let fly – that this is all a bunch of PC nonsense is no concern of Rugby World Cup 2011. But it is of political significance, in McCully's mind, to the government.

    You nailed it. Rugby Racing and Beer culture is under threat if you back off defending it from political correctness even for a moment.
    Courtship in the youth of these yobs consisted of getting the dirty girls drunk enough to root. Its the tradition that alcohol advertising depends on. Sports radio and sports TV and the RWC depends on the brewery advertising dollar and McCully is petrified like a bunny in the headlights.

    Since Apr 2010 • 24 posts Report Reply

  • Legal Beagle: Because it is a big deal,

    I can't see any justification for using the cards for single purchases of golf clubs and bicycles etc.
    But I'm quite used to traveling for work, and usually when you check into a hotel you leave an open credit card imprint. Sometimes with a group you will ask that members pay their own extras apart from accommodation and breakfast, and sometimes those get missed at check-out for all sorts of reasons and are reimbursed later. Isn't that what most of this beat-up is all about? particularly Shane Jones' PPV movies, the employer recovering unpaid extras bills. It looked like they were pretty good over all to me.

    Since Apr 2010 • 24 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Dude, what just happened?,

    You have to actually read the story to find that the sweeping claim is based on three batches of six plants grown under optimum conditions by ESR scientists, two of them involving Red Devil, a modern pure indica strain.

    OMG That is Gorgeous! "CANNABIS CULTURE - Medical Grower Mediman heats up the 2009 Toronto Cannabis Cup with his winning Red Devil strain."
    Thats why SoG customers want to grow stronger pot so they smoke less lettuce, its the smoke that kills.
    Its the Sm-oo-oo-oo-ke that kills, Its the Inhalation

    Since Apr 2010 • 24 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Dude, what just happened?,

    @Rob Stowell
    I don't have bipolar disorder, I'm 50ish, I might smoke a joint with some friends on a monthly basis if that. I don't see what prevention or treatment of a genetic disorder has to do with my right to do so.
    Opiates and cannabinoids are rather unique compounds among plants in that they mimic endogenous morphines which are now known as endorphins and endogenous cannabinoids. The law is not going to undo this quirk of biology or un-discover or obscure it. If we don't like it we will have to handle it culturally, not punitively. Its a big ask but the law isn't effective. Countries with much more relaxed laws have lower usage because they have different cultural approaches. If lower usage is what your goal is. It depends also on whether the goal is to lower the population of users or lower their personal dosage. All the politicians seem scared of publicly acknowledging that low dosage use is mostly harmless and that problem use can't be fixed unless you can see it in the open.

    Since Apr 2010 • 24 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Dude, what just happened?,

    <quote>Some of the arguments here make WhaleOil's logic look good.<quote>

    You own arguments certainly don't make your own logic look good.
    If using cannabis made users steal, then there would be 585,000 thieves created each year, so that's a load of bollocks.
    And if clandestine growers cutting farmers fences is a problem, then the Switched on Gardener etc offer the perfect solution in encouraging small scale home horticulture.

    Since Apr 2010 • 24 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Dude, what just happened?,

    Um, it's a free publication isn't it?

    No
    http://www.hempstore.co.nz/product_info.php?products_id=67

    Whats your point ?

    Since Apr 2010 • 24 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Dude, what just happened?,

    So if you sold a growlight to a grower, and you earned a wage doing it ...
    The cops have been quite open this week about the fact that the law change has made many of the charges possible. It really is looking like the police want to see if they can bust someone for working in a fucking shop.

    Well that means if you sold a crowbar or a ski-mask to a burglar you would be equally liable.
    I hope the judiciary can see the principle and stop this silliness from escalating.
    It was meant for the seizure of Headhunters Harleys, not shop assitants selling potting mix to hippies.

    Since Apr 2010 • 24 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Dude, what just happened?,

    Surely. But take into account that they were breaking some serious laws and profiting by that, when you consider their lives and freedoms.

    I've bought copies of High Times before , without having to register with the police or anticipate that my purchase makes me liable to search and arrest.
    Thats a level of surveillance that qualifies as a police state action in my book and the NZ police have not got a mandate for that kind of infringement on civil rights.
    I hope SOG's defense is robust and the judiciary takes their responsibility seriously, but given the whoop and hollering from the police minister, it looks like we are being rolled again.

    Since Apr 2010 • 24 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Dude, what just happened?,

    @chris
    Some role models among the writers ?
    http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1943.html

    Since Apr 2010 • 24 posts Report Reply

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