Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Splore 2019 – Please Don't F*ck This Up Part 3: Harm Reduction

Neil

Fri, 03 May 2019 00:51:15 +1200

True it’s not necessarily the majority of people coming off meth but the people being seen in residential settings may already have gone through the more intense part of withdrawal with paramedics and in ED.

The meth rampage is not an urban myth. The paramedic protocol is physical restraint and…

andin

Thu, 02 May 2019 10:26:34 +1200

Family First tieing itself in knots

Wow that is just sick, if anything it is an indictment of US mental health care. The person they use as an example to push their agenda, had blazingly obvious mental health issues. That needed clinical care, which were obviously neglected in his case.…

Neil

Thu, 02 May 2019 10:25:37 +1200

The effective decriminalisation of small time possession and use is welcome news even if the government is choosing to be coy about it.

But as others are pointing out there needs to be a substantial boost to treatment funding as the other part of the equation.

Something else that should…

Craig Young

Thu, 02 May 2019 09:53:12 +1200

The sound below is Family First tieing itself in knots over its stance on medicinal cannabis: https://www.familyfirst.org.nz/2019/04/modern-medical-marijuana-is-more-potent-dangerous-than-ever-before/

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 11:22:36 +1200

David Farrar’s Curia Market Research firm
and...
It’s stinky as all hell.
Seeing it is such an entrenched part of National's 'Old Boys network' perhaps it should more aptly be called OBscuria Market Research...

One wonders if its naming as Curia is in relation to the Roman Catholic court of…

andin

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:24:52 +1200

Family Furs

Can Bob McCoskrie just eat a Gummy Bear on live TV so we can all watch, please.

Russell Brown

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:54:29 +1200

Prohibitionist propaganda alert: With the assistance of David Farrar’s Curia Market Research firm, Family First has just released a somewhat suspect opinion poll.

It's an extremely suspect poll, one which appears to breach at least the spirit of the NZ Political Polling Code. The question order shown in [[http://saynopetodope.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/04/CURIA-MARKET-RESEARCH-MARIJUANA-POLL-2019.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2zhFMK---ZgZkrsM0T6865znMmmOZIHur1mLQnT9leL1pHble-HCB9JIc|the formal…

Craig Young

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:55:41 +1200

Prohibitionist propaganda alert: With the assistance of David Farrar's Curia Market Research firm, Family First has just released a somewhat suspect opinion poll. eighty five percent say cannabis can be neurotoxic for young smokers (which is why there's an age of consent provision in the proposed legislation), eighty one percent…

andin

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:46:44 +1200

fear of the blowback from the general public. But based on my experience talking to the general public about this stuff, people are far ahead of politicians,

The general public is a many headed beast, its when it finds a voice in the form of a talkback radio tool or…

Public Address

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:46:44 +1200

Discussion from blog post.