Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Synthetics: We need to stop calling it cannabis

Lofty Miller

Fri, 30 Aug 2019 01:31:01 +1200

At Last ! – Thank you Russell Brown for dragging this gross misuse of 'Cannabis' by saddling it with the word 'Synthetic' – It's pure deliberate propaganda from National Party types and other unintelligent right-wing species –

'Synthies' are bloody dangerous drugs, should be biffed in the "P/Meth" bag and…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 07:16:37 +1200

I’ve never heard of Mike Yardley before...
What an enviable state to exist in!

He is Chchch's Mike Hosking analogue – with Stuff and Radio access
(ie: another right-leaning opinionated proselytizer and largely a waste of carbon)

Bart Janssen

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:33:55 +1200

Cannabinoid receptor agonists

That would be the correct term.

But since defining three words each time you describe the drug seems a little much I suspect it wont catch on.

william blake

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 10:19:54 +1200

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/112674482/random-roadside-drug-testing-must-be-urgently-introduced

This is the first up on a google search in articles about roadside drug testing. I've never heard of Mike Yardley before but I only needed to see one other article of his which was a pro Trump piece and used the terms feminazi and snowflake in the first…

Craig Young

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:27:23 +1200

As Linger said above, polydrug use " is simultaneous use of multiple drugs, possibly as one product combining several drugs", although I used it in the sense of additional drugs apart from synthetics. My point was, what if it is the admixture of those substances that creates the problem? And…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:17:21 +1200

Whats a polydrug?
Kava?

Shaun Lott

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:09:09 +1200

I look forward to your campaign against alcohol.

Or for that matter the campaign against caffeine, or theobromine or….

linger

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:27:46 +1200

If “polydrug use” is simultaneous use of multiple drugs, possibly as one product combining several drugs … then presumably at least some synthetics are reaching the market as ingredients of such mixtures, so a clear distinction might be difficult to maintain.

Craig Young

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 09:16:13 +1200

To what extent is the problem synthetics, and to what extent is it synthetics and polydrug use?

andin

Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:46:34 +1200

Surely all recreational drug use is detrimental to the health and well being of the individual

That kind of logic would make any puritan proud, and wrong. We all need to relax (recreate as you say) one way or another. Do you want to be the one telling people how…

Simon Armstrong

Fri, 12 Jul 2019 01:11:40 +1200

I feel bad for being so off topic.

I did like the recent term douche flute for vaporiser. Perhaps synthetics / fake marijuana are deserving of an equally derisive term?

linger

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 22:12:39 +1200

all recreational drug use is detrimental to the health and well being of the individual
I look forward to your campaign against alcohol. Good luck with that.
(Speaking as a non-user, I’d still quite like to hear more NZ reggae though, so this seems one of the rare cases where…

linger

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 22:08:07 +1200

weeding out these misunderstandings
*applause*
Drug Harm Index didn’t explicitly talk about being remanded or sentenced to prison as a drug harmIf so, that's quite an omission!

Rob S

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:50:40 +1200

We aren't talking about legalizing synthetics though.
The cat is out of the bag as far as synthetics are concerned and the main issue is the health effects which illegality is not addressing.
The evidence for dealing with these harms points to openness not lock them up and ineffective posturing.…

Rob Stowell

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:36:35 +1200

Great piece. Really gets my goat this use of the word cannabis. It really does matter.

Simon Armstrong

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:38:09 +1200

I disagree, I think original synthetics law established a new baseline for failure.

Richard Stewart

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:57:08 +1200

The current laws around recreational drugs have been around for decades and are clearly a failure by any measure.

Surely continuing with prohibition is the more reckless option.

Rob S

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 12:50:36 +1200

Cannabis,loathe it or love it you can't ignore it.
Keeping it illegal hasn't helped has it?
Best to regulate and treat any issues as a health problem and not a law and order election posture I'd have thought.
Perhaps if it had been legal and controlled our synthetic problem wouldn't…

Simon Armstrong

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:42:31 +1200

Surely all recreational drug use is detrimental to the health and well being of the individual with perhaps the exception of reggae musicians. Until New Zealand society finds a way to turn around our mental health and child welfare statistics which makes our situation IMHO incomparable to any other country…

Public Address

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:42:31 +1200

Discussion from blog post.