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				<title>Steve Barnes</title>
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						<p><q>Leave it out! Badwolf!</q><br />Better call the Doctor, the Prime Minister is looking tired.<br />tee hee....</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 14:11:43 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><strong>Omission Impossible:</strong><br /><q>...head in the sand……it will all go away……one day…some say… Hippy kai yay…</q><br />Noooo!!<br />Medic!!<br />They got Steve!<br />Noooo!!</p><p><sinks to knees &ndash; rages at  sky><br />Damn your PunkJewAsian, <br />What dotted eyes U have Grammar!<br />it's, it's a total ellipsis of the heart...</p><p><em>Leave it out!</em> Badwolf!</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 10:51:21 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Steve Barnes</title>
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						<p><q>do dot your eyes cross your tees</q><br />Or cross your eyes and dope your tea.......all the same..........to one like me.<br />Shut your eyes and put your head in the sand......it will all go away......one day...some say... Hippy kai yay....</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 10:22:37 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Shulgin</title>
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						<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9eQlTmydnE&amp;feature=kp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9eQlTmydnE&amp;feature=kp</a></p><p>Tycho &ndash; Awake</p><p><br />it's a funny thing...drugs as a health issue...I think capitalism is really bad for you all...anyway I am gett'n real sick of this middle class twaddle...so will vanish off...do dot your eyes cross your tees...elect some(one)...pay your over inflated mortgage...whatever..... and enjoy your police state</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 22:06:59 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>BenWilson</title>
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						<p><q>Ben, I’ll be raising your points with Maia tomorrow. </q></p><p>Excellent!</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 21:02:15 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>BenWilson</title>
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						<p><q>I’m puzzled by the way you’ve dismissed harm reduction, when it largely seems responsible for positive change.</q></p><p>Fair enough. I'm not being clear enough. I don't oppose harm reduction, per se. I just think it's only half of the picture, and that when you work on the wrong function, you…</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 20:59:41 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p><q>I certainly think that there’s a case for decriminalisation of cannabis, but I’m somewhat uneasy when the same argument is applied to P/crystal meth.</q></p><p>Decriminalisation is still an option even when you really don’t want a substance in the market. If it’s that dangerous and damaging, why re-victimise users?</p><p><q>The…</q></p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 14:03:52 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p><q>No, they’re not. And I’m having it, aren’t I? Do you want me to stop? It seemed like just the place to be talking about this, but your call.</q></p><p>No, I don't want you to stop. I appreciate your point, but I'm puzzled by the way you've dismissed harm reduction,…</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 13:52:17 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 13:48:59 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p>Ben, I'll be raising your points with Maia tomorrow. </p><p>She <a href="http://www.alternet.org/drugs-addiction-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote this last year</a>:</p><p><q>What is the most dangerous activity you can engage in? If you guessed doing illegal drugs, you would be wrong.  Extreme sports like big wave surfing, heli-skiing, cave diving, white-water rafting and mountain climbing all have…</q></p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 13:39:51 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><q>User works for me as it has no prejudice</q><br />Just remember folks:<br /><a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/10063455/Cat-drags-home-bag-of-cannabis" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <strong>Only Users Lose Drugs!</strong></a></p><p>;-  )</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 10:27:57 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Craig Young</title>
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						I certainly think that there's a case for decriminalisation of cannabis, but I'm somewhat uneasy when the same argument is applied to P/crystal meth. The two drugs have vastly different pharmacological and toxicological properties, so I think the best way to go is probably streamlining the Misuse of Drugs Act…
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 09:18:54 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Shulgin</title>
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						<p>opps wrong subject</p><p><a href="http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b617/Etoyep/sweden_zps6d938715.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b617/Etoyep/sweden_zps6d938715.jpg</a></p><p>Seems like D I MIlls…is fond of sweeeeden…from the les maxwell NBID report…new cannabis the cornerstone of illicit drug harm in new zeeland….they just print the blue cover of the book…. as the strategic assessment….. all you kiwi tax payers paid for…..IT…………..   and continue to do…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 21:17:31 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Sofie Bribiesca</title>
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						<p><q> I’m over hearing about how awesomely progressive we can be via the slow incremental accumulation of reasons not to take drugs, culminating in the hardly surprising decision to ban the whole lot of them.</q></p><p>I was a bit over hearing from not the horses mouth or not the horses mouth…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 18:38:41 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>BenWilson</title>
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						<p><q> Because they’re not a public policy or public health issue.</q></p><p>The bulk of the population are not a public policy issue? Aside from them not being an “issue” at all, but people, they certainly are a very primary concern of public policy, and they damned well should be. If it…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 17:36:48 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>BenWilson</title>
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						<p><q>I don’t see how most on here can. How many users actually will admit to it and explain what is good about it </q></p><p>And how can they do it in a way that stacks up against cold facts and statistics about addiction, madness, self-destruction and death? We don't count good…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 17:22:53 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Sofie Bribiesca</title>
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						<p><q>Why can’t we treat cannabis (fixed it for you) the same way as tobacco? Hey, why not make it part of the tobacco license?</q></p><p>We should be able to just as anyone who uses drugs <em>wants</em> to give up should be able to seek some help. That was my point,…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 17:16:23 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>BenWilson</title>
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						<p><q>Portugese are not “free to enjoy themselves on drugs”.</q></p><p>They are considerably freer than I am. </p><p><q>You’re barking up the wrong tree if you expect public health agencies to do that part for you. The Ministry of Health doesn’t make table wine recommendations either.</q></p><p>That's exactly the opposite of what…</p>
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				<title>Moz</title>
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						<p><q>“junkie”  ... or did you use the term loosely for all types of drugs?</q></p><p>I will, quite willingly. I live downstairs from a woman who cannot function without cigarettes, in the sense that she recently left hospital early after a smoking-related treatment because they restricted her smoking and she couldn't…</p>
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				<title>Sofie Bribiesca</title>
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						<p><q> but not one that’s in people’s faces, if that’s what people object to.</q></p><p>I think that's one thing. Some people would be getting all hooha about it being Tax free (although I think we pay tax twice on many things and that's acceptable ). People don't like others getting something…</p>
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				<title>nzlemming</title>
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						<q>For the same reason we don’t talk much about adults who purchase alcohol legally, consume the stuff in moderation, don’t drive drunk, commit crimes against others or their property under the influence, or end up with severe chronic alcohol-related health issues? Because they’re not a public policy or public health…</q>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 14:10:31 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Rich of Observationz</title>
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						<p>I guess it's possible to have a model where it's legal to sell (some) drugs face-face on an informal basis but not to operate a storefront.</p><p>Which creates a highly unregulated market, but not one that's in people's faces, if that's what people object to.</p>
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				<title>Craig Ranapia</title>
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						<p><q>A small fraction end up junkies. I don’t see why we have to dedicate all of the discussion to the junkies.</q></p><p>For the same reason we don't talk much about adults who purchase alcohol legally, consume the stuff in moderation, don't drive drunk, commit crimes against others or their property…</p>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p><a href="http://healthland.time.com/2014/02/12/when-the-road-to-recovery-is-paved-with-a-dash-of-addiction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A story by Maia</a> from February:</p><p><q>A crack pipe vending machine for addicts sounds like the punch line of a bad joke—but the same kind of ridicule has been lobbed at many measures to fight drug addiction and related harm that have now proven to save lives. From needle exchange…</q></p>
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				<title>Sofie Bribiesca</title>
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						<p><q>Her personal experience as a former user of cocaine and heroin and</q></p><p>Ok, so some talk about it, but they are usually ex... ;)</p>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p>I'm chairing <a href="http://www.drugfoundation.org.nz/speakerandsoup/maia-szalavitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a session with American journalist Maia Szalavitz</a> in Wellington on Thursday.</p><p><q>Maia Szalavitz is an award winning journalist and author whose work has focussed on mental health issues, addictions, drug policy, neuroscience and the media’s portrayal of these issues. Her personal experience as a former user of cocaine…</q></p>
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				<title>Sofie Bribiesca</title>
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						<p><q> A small fraction end up junkies. I don’t see why we have to dedicate all of the discussion to the junkies.</q></p><p>I don’t see how most on here can. How many users actually will admit to it and  explain what is good about it . One thing a “junkie” is…</p>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<q>You’re even doing it in making your point about what’s good about what happened in Portugal. You talk about the harms that reduced. You don’t or can’t (and not through any fault of your own) point out that one of the biggest goods of that is that Portuguese drug takers…</q>
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						<p><q>It wasn’t perfect by any measure, but it did make a difference.</q></p><p>Whereas the needle exchange was. It gave those with any concern about HepC a chance to not share needles with a very good exchange rate on used ones and free alcohol swabs etc that together encouraged safe use…</p>
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				<title>BenWilson</title>
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						<p><q>Okay, let’s take your analogy and look at what actually happened, rather than the scenario you’re conjuring for the sake of argument.</q></p><p>I'm not conjuring the prohibition of homosexuality. That really happened. And it was almost always justified on the grounds of harm, at least at the end when it…</p>
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						<p>And in very timely fashion, a really interesting, well-researched story on <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnknefel/the-controversial-answer-to-americas-heroin-surge" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">America's belated embrace of harm reduction</a> has popped up in my Twitter timeline.</p><p>This is the second very good piece of writing I've read on Buzzfeed today, which slightly does my head in.</p>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p><q>You didn’t have senior members of either the Fouth Labour or Fifith National Governments publicly musing on whether there was something to putting HIV positive people in quarantine camps. Which did matter.</q></p><p>Certainly. They also didn't ignore the problem like <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Reagan-s-AIDS-Legacy-Silence-equals-death-2751030.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reagan did</a> as AIDS emerged as a national health crisis…</p>
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				<title>Craig Ranapia</title>
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						<p><q> Harm minimisation in response to AIDS was embraced by the gay community. Condom use was normalised and encouraged and remains the basis of AIDS prevention. People didn’t stop having sex.</q></p><p>Without engaging in a Pollyanna retcon of history (because being HIV+ has never been a cakewalk and never will be),…</p>
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						<q>Just like homophobia. Laugh at the queens. It’s the exact same thing at work here. We could be having this argument about the dangers of anal sex, and AIDs, and how some kids might get turned into queers if it’s legal. Which all might even BE real dangers. But so…</q>
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				<title>kalypso</title>
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						<p><q>maybe we need to teach it in schools</q><br />I believe that many schools already are: <a href="http://www.rootsofempathy.org/en/new-zealand.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.rootsofempathy.org/en/new-zealand.html</a></p>
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						<p>These stories have a "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" quality about them.  It's hard to justify criminal convictions with the argument that you're trying to help people live better lives.</p><p>People hear the word 'de-criminalisation' and imagine some sort of libertine free-for-all, but there's…</p>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><strong>Just desserts...</strong><br /><q>Why is cannabis less legal than Chardonnay?<br />That is the question</q><br />alas poor Hamlet<br />the 'grapes of <em>wraith'</em><br />bear bitter fruit!</p><p>:- )</p>
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				<title>Steve Barnes</title>
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						<p>Brilliant, like toadally.<br />Anyone that can use the term "Anal Tearing" in a cannabis legislation argument gets my vote any time.</p>
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						<p><q>No, there are lots of other answers to that.</p><p>“Try to avoid or minimise use of cannabis until at least the age of 18, thereby hugely reducing the risk of future psychosis,” is one.</p><p>“Use a bong or a vapouriser,” is another.</q></p><p>Yup, but they're small change compared to not…</p>
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				<title>Kevin McCready</title>
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						No point abusing Bob. He's driven by his genes and experience.
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						<p><q>Why does Bob want people to die?</q><br />Family First?.<br />Bob, you are one sick puppy.</p>
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						<p><q>All too often the extreme views such as McCoskrie's lack any evidence of empathy at all &ndash; maybe we need to teach it in schools.</q><br />Funny yo should mention that...</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g</a></p>
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						<p><q>Russell the old joke about statistics and dam lies applies here<br />It would be nice if you put the different countries numbers per million<br />Because if they are as stated you do have a powerful argument for more liberal laws</q></p><p>I did! The figure quoted in the post itself is…</p>
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				<title>Worik Stanton</title>
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						Why is cannabis less legal than Chardonnay?  That is the question IMO
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				<title>Kevin McCready</title>
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						Bob wants people to die because he seriously believes the human gene pool would be better off without people like that. I have met two people in real life who have told me face to face on the drug issue that that is what they believe. When you try to…
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				<title>Raymond A Francis</title>
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						<p>Russell the old joke about statistics and dam lies applies here<br />It would be nice if you put the different countries numbers per million<br />Because if they are as stated you do have a powerful argument for more liberal laws</p>
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						<p><q>Nah. That’s the question whose only answer is “by making cannabis use as infrequent as possible”. </q></p><p>No, there are lots of other answers to that.</p><p>“Try to avoid or minimise use of cannabis until at least the age of 18, thereby hugely reducing the risk of future psychosis,” is one.…</p>
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						<p><q>But let’s not pretend there are no harms from cannabis. The question is how they can be minimised. </q></p><p>Nah. That's the question whose only answer is "by making cannabis use as infrequent as possible". I think it's the totally wrong question and I'm not going to go into why any…</p>
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						The easiest question for Bob is, "Are you prepared to include our most addictive, destructive and commonly used drug– alcohol – in your prohibition ?" My guess would be, no.
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						<p><q>Why does Bob want people to die?</q></p><p>The answer to that almost certainly lies in his definition of "people". I suspect that what he really cares about is people-like-him and if those people suffer less harm from the "others" while a few more of the "others" die then that's a…</p>
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						The <a href="http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/country-overviews/se" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EMCDDA briefing page on Sweden</a>.
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						The boy has been charged, which is probably more to do with local politics than the law, but the charge will almost certainly be thrown out of court for lack of evidence.
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						<p>Discussion from blog post.</p>
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