Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: History repeats: New Zealand's history of drugs and the law

Shulgin

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:44:19 +1300

...not really...good old days.... I have the spreadsheets the Police used and the original ICD 10 extract...well...well... tax payers paying for Police to "construct" a social "harm" that didn't actually exist...i even showed the politicians the plagiarism in the Maxwell report, like I say it went "outdated"...and the cops fiddling…

mark taslov

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 23:08:03 +1300

Ah the good old days when you could bowl up to a hospital, plead cannabis and score a free bed for the night.

Shulgin

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 22:00:51 +1300

Mr brown nice article....

and let us not forget the NDIB Maxwell report...all the cannabis hospital admissions...a $30 million a year burden...unloving 60000 bed nights...the report went "outdated" just last year in fact...the problem just vanished in the space of 30 days when certain matters were raised with police, health…

Gary Elshaw

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:09:58 +1300

Jorge Castaneda has a great article in Time magazine calling for the legalisation of drugs – all of them.

mark taslov

Sat, 04 Oct 2014 20:37:18 +1300

I wanted it to be fast-cut and media-rich with as many historical images and sounds I could gather. I wanted to use relevant New Zealand music

Though I’ve hit a roadblock in terms of only being able to find the first two parts of episode 1 having been uploaded to youtube,…

Grant McDougall

Sat, 04 Oct 2014 15:02:52 +1300

Redmer Yska's New Zealand Green (David Bateman, 1990) is a really good book, on, as it's title suggests, marijuana use and laws in Godzone.

I'd love to see it republished and updated.

David Herkt

Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:23:39 +1300

Thanks for the citation, Russell.
Seeing as it has come up, I’d like to respond to Steve Curtis a little – in explanation.
High Times was a 3 x 44 minute series funded as part of the NZOA Platinum Fund and screened by TV3. Subtitled ‘A Social History of New…

Jack Harrison

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:40:57 +1300

Well the drug they are liberating back in the U.S.A is a herb called marijuana. It's a goldmine once you control breed and dosage. Alcohol is too destructive as a social tool maybe beyond 5% proof.

Heavy booze needs to go. Too corruptive. Too unhealthy on mood and liver.

TracyMac

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:28:59 +1300

wrong post!

mark taslov

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:00:56 +1300

That was an absolutely fantastic article Russell. The gulf between the history and the official modern narrative is obscene. Kudos for the David Herkt High Times citation, I'll be checking that out now too.

tussock

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:41:42 +1300

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_Drugs

Suggests the problem has always been trade from countries who have social conventions to accept specific drug use to countries which do not, and rather than bother to educate their populations they just banned the trade.

Or at least the west did. You'll note there's still no ban on…

Steve Curtis

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:22:23 +1300

I thought Herkts previous 'histories' were more of a 'screenplay' version.

Russell Brown

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:04:35 +1300

A similar, but shorter, piece from The Conversation: Australia's Love Affair With Drugs

Public Address

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:04:35 +1300

Discussion from blog post.