Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: A cannabis moment in the Parliament

Russell Brown

Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:23:13 +1200

Plus The new science of psychedelics
A better life through chemistry!

I'm reading that to review right now. Great book!

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 05 Aug 2018 15:03:39 +1200

faddy lipids...
...something nebulous about gateways
Then there's always DMT...
...as recently espoused by Irvine Welsh
"...What DMT does – it allows you into an antechamber between life and death. You get to hang out on the fringes and talk to the gatekeepers… All the learned behaviour and culture... We…

tussock

Sat, 04 Aug 2018 14:22:01 +1200

Thanks, Russell, for following this along.

Great to see serious work being done, handy now we're not the first that there's a chance to learn from others and people are doing just that. We'll hopefully be pardoning and quashing convictions on possession in a few years, and then even supply…

FletcherB

Fri, 03 Aug 2018 22:48:48 +1200

Dear Moz... I so wish PAS had a "like" or "thumbs up" button...

Moz

Fri, 03 Aug 2018 09:21:42 +1200

Here in PA World (or even Shane Reti’s world) we might like to envisage an informed debate by reasonable people

I think the trick is, and what we're actually seeing, is to get the reasonable people to come up with a proposal that they all think is likely to work.…

Dennis Frank

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:50:42 +1200

Reliance on parliamentarians to co-create consensus-based legislation on a common good basis won't suffice. How about the Drug Foundation creates a suitable design and calls for public feedback? That process could crowd-source all the wisdom required to produce an effective synthesis.

simon g

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:43:22 +1200

Some terrific work there, Russell (& co).

Specifically on the legalisation referendum, I think the politics of this is fascinating. Here in PA World (or even Shane Reti’s world) we might like to envisage an informed debate by reasonable people, but experience suggests that a referendum encourages a good deal of…

BenWilson

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:01:55 +1200

And despite what various people have been keen to tell me on Twitter, that process will not be a simple or straightforward one for the government.

Word up on that. However simple individual views may be, finding a pathway to turning 2 million views into new and well designed laws…

Russell Brown

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:32:07 +1200

And on another (but related) front: the Science Media Centre has gathered some good expert opinion on policy responses to the synthetics crisis.

Public Address

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:32:07 +1200

Discussion from blog post.