Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: From Zero: New Zealand and drugs https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address nzlemming https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367908#post367908 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367908#post367908 You and Ian! No spoilers for Episode 3!

Oops ;-)

]]> Fri, 11 Nov 2016 23:46:18 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367876#post367876 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367876#post367876 I’d always got the “cokey” reference, but had thought “kick the gong” was a euphemism for raising hell.

Oi!

You and Ian! No spoilers for Episode 3!

;-)

]]> Fri, 11 Nov 2016 07:09:27 +1300 Farmer Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367875#post367875 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367875#post367875 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-10/and-winner-2016-election-weed ]]> Fri, 11 Nov 2016 07:01:15 +1300 Farmer Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367874#post367874 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367874#post367874 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1ibDUBbr98 ]]> Fri, 11 Nov 2016 06:59:54 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367832#post367832 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367832#post367832 Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:50:20 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367777#post367777 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367777#post367777 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0icF_o5UIs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2WJqnK3gAY
Who put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine? (1944)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTriKbYl-pk
Cocaine Habit Blues (1930)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijxFF2qQAjU
Weed Smoker’s Dream (1930s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzNgAEqPyMI
Reefer Man (1932)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spkcAjt-TKU
Let’s Go Get Stoned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVb07pM2DE
That Cat is High
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9t_2QvXaD0
When I Get Low, I Get High
(isn’t that what Michelle Obama said?)
:-…

]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2016 08:54:16 +1300 nzlemming https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367767#post367767 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367767#post367767 Second verse of Minnie the Moocher
She messed around with a bloke named Smokey
She loved him though was cokey
He took her down to Chinatown
And he showed her how to kick the gong around

I'd always got the "cokey" reference, but had thought "kick the gong" was a…

]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2016 01:10:35 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367713#post367713 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367713#post367713 smeckheads ? Red Dwarf fans need to know. ]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2016 15:26:18 +1300 nzlemming https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367702#post367702 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367702#post367702 Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:16:54 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367660#post367660 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367660#post367660 here. ]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:48:01 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367656#post367656 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367656#post367656 from 1924*:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19240919.2.57

Hard to read of the demonization of Chinese in NZ by virtue of their association with opium and not feel the burning hypocrisy. First Opium War

]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:44:25 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367655#post367655 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367655#post367655 from 1924*:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19240919.2.57

plus a drugs and race crossover:
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/race-killing-lionel-terry-murders-joe-kum-yung-in-haining-st-wellington

*An acquaintance recently discovered a complete run of the first Sunday Times Feature newspaper from Chch (1958-59) which reported Opium still being seized at Lyttelton – The National Library has bought this run and I look forward to it being…

]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2016 09:22:01 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367654#post367654 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367654#post367654 a big range of drug slang dating back decades.

Argot of the Dope Addict, Auckland Star, 1938.

Note:

Bernice or burnese – Crystallised cocaine for inhaling

Or in other words, crack.

]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:46:08 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367651#post367651 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367651#post367651 Looking forward to this. I bet there are some great stories.
Complete tangent but it was astonishing and delightful to fall over an old (1940s or 50s) thesaurus of american slang and find in the (by far the best) underworld section a big range of drug slang dating back decades.…

]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2016 16:55:50 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367650#post367650 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367650#post367650 Not released yet...

Well, it is, but it just hasn't got to the third-party platforms yet. Note that there's a podcast subscription link at the top right of the RNZ page.

]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:18:25 +1300 Nick Melchior https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367649#post367649 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367649#post367649 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:13:20 +1300 Stephen R https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367648#post367648 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367648#post367648 on iTunes and Spotify and broadcast every Monday after the 10pm news on RNZ Nights.

Not released yet...

]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:54:33 +1300 Nick Melchior https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367647#post367647 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367647#post367647 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:18:48 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367645#post367645 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367645#post367645 And while on the subject of RNZ podcasts there is also the series Black Sheep playing on Monday afternoons.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/programmes/black-sheep

]]> Mon, 07 Nov 2016 12:55:14 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367644#post367644 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-from-zero-new-zealand-and-drugs/?p=367644#post367644 Discussion from blog post.

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