Posts by Stephen McIntyre
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I'm not a grower, I smoke about 4 joints a month, but this is making me bloody ANGRY !!!!!
I don't usually attend J-Day (honest!!!) but this is one that I will be going to because I believe it's the only chance we'll get to publicly protest about what the Police and the Government have done.
If you don't like the law and want to see it changed - smoker or not - please turn up and make some noise about it in your town or city this Saturday.
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As I see it the timing of these raids is really significant:
As Russell points out, it's J-Day this Saturday, May 1st.
But, as well this week we have the Law Commission releasing its final report on alcohol and making recommendations that aren't going to be too politically popular.
In addition, Friday April 30th is the last day for public submissions to the Law Commission's report on the Drugs Act.
Yesterday, Judith Collins made the point of issuing a press release gushingly congratulating Police on the raids.
Oh, and what about Peter Dunne's behaviour last week on 60 minutes?
Anything to give the papers something to talk about instead of the really important stuff.
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But just one point for those of you smoking cannabis, please stop pretending it’s so wonderful – Sure as a drug it isn’t worse or better than alcohol but it does have the added joy of being as bad as smoking tobacco for you and for those around you. Legalise it, tax it and stick hideous pictures of lung cancer on the packets please.
No problem. Just stop LOCKNG US UP!!!!
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Yes, I have to suck on my sticky stinky skunk. That alone is enough to make a man psychotic, not even knowing an organic gardener.
How about this scary story I heard from a Gro shop person: just last month a small-scale indoor grower without much of an IQ decided to get rid of the bugs on his almost ripe buds by spraying then with fly-spray!!!
"They didn't look too good after that" he said. Well, duh!
And what did he do with his harvest? Sold it, of course!
Do you know who grows your smoke????
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should we ban soap?
... and if that happened you know that within the week there'd be black market body cleansers being sold from somebody's back door at inflated prices. Most likely, the soap would contain dodgy ingredients; maybe something harmless or perhaps not (too much caustic soda perhaps?). There'd be no quality control so it might or might not get you very clean - you could never tell until after using it. Likewise, it might just wind up causing your skin to peel off or perhaps it'll just eventually cause skin cancer because of all the crap ingredients.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. In a few years, the black marketeers will be pushing even stronger and more concentrated body cleaners on us:
"Yo bro ... want some industrial strength stuff? Straight from the factory in China. Get you sooo clean you won't know what hit you!".
Peter Dunne will of course get on his high horse, rant on with self-righteous indignation and secure yet another couple of parliamentary terms as a coalition partner with whoever becomes Govt. The NZ Herald will run week long articles about the dangers of soap every year, and will always include some quote from parents grieving over the loss of a child: "If he'd just never started hanging around with other soap users, then he wouldn't have slipped in the shower that day and he'd still be with us."
Etc, etc ...
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b)alcoholic pyschosis is quite rare
"Not surprisingly, alcohol dependence was predictive of psychotic experience in a general adult population survey in Great Britain. The reported two-fold higher risk was independent of other risk factors for psychotic symptoms including drug dependence, suggesting that alcohol dependence per se doubles the risk of psychotic symptoms."
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/528487_2
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I'm curious about the claim in the Herald about codeine-based painkillers being used as the primary ingredient in 'homebake'. Now, I'm sure that's probably true but I haven't even heard the term 'homebake' in about 25 years. Does anyone really still do it, or is this a case of a problem being manufactured to justify more laws that make it seem like the Govt is 'really cracking down on the drug problem'?
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some of you may like to see what i wrote for the Herald a decade ago when decriminalisation was the issue.
Did they run it?
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Geez. I have a problem with this Guy's attitude.
Mike Sabin strongly supports drug education in school and believes the Government has missed the wider issue. He argues that demand for drugs will continue as long as we have a policy of harm minimisation (accepting that drug use occurs and dealing with the consequences) rather than harm prevention (not tolerating drug abuse and aiming to reduce it to zero).
Here you have the perfect example of someone who makes a living from prohibition and has a strong vested interest in maintaining - or even ramping up - the status quo.
I major problems with anyone who thinks sending sniffer dogs into high schools and randomly checking my kids is OK.
3 years back one of my nephews described the way in his entire class were one day suddenly made to exit the room, line up outside in the corridor, and wait while a dog went in and sniffed bags and desks.
And the police wonder why they're often treated with fear and suspicion by youing people???
Come to think of it: isn't it illegal for schools to allow random checks on students?
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Racial bias in the criminal justice system is rampant. African American men, in particular, are overrepresented in all criminal justice statistics: arrests, victimizations, incarceration and executions.
From the Report of the NZ Health Select Committee, August 2003:
"In New Zealand, Maori would appear to be at greater risk of harm resulting from the criminalisation of cannabis. Maori convictions for cannabis offences are disproportionate to the Maori percentage of the population and Maori cannabis use rates.
In 2001, Maori made up 14.5 percent of the NZ population, but received 43 percent of the convictions for using cannabis and 55 percent of the convictions for dealing in cannabis." (p. 28)