Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Towards the referendum: this might actually be a trend

Jason Kemp

Fri, 03 Jul 2020 16:06:15 +1200

I'm in the 60s+ age group and I would think most of my cohort would be relatively happy for "legalising cannabis for personal use". But there are always fringe elements keen on protecting some conservative angle.

I hope at the very least that the changes help with scientific research into…

Alfie

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:32:44 +1200

As a modest spokesman for the (just) over 65s I'm a little taken aback. While you'd traditionally expect older people to be more conservative, we're the generation who grew up rebelling, smoking dope and giving most things a shot. For that reason I would have expected if not a full-on…

Thrash Cardiom

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 20:26:04 +1200

It would be interesting to see the age breakdown of National voters with this. Just how much of an aging party are they?

Sandra Murray (Make It Legal)

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:41:52 +1200

There is an important difference between the way NZDF and the Horizon poll use the word controls.
Horizon are using 'controls' as a noun as in "Here are some regulatory controls (rules) for cannabis".
NZDF say control (verb – action word) as in "We will control cannabis"

Using the verb…

Russell Brown

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:57:09 +1200

I'm presenting to at least five groups of elderly people (U3A, Probus etc.) over the next couple of months. I'm told I am pretty persuasive...

That's a good audience to talk to. They've signed up for knowledge.

Joe Boden

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:50:17 +1200

I'm presenting to at least five groups of elderly people (U3A, Probus etc.) over the next couple of months. I'm told I am pretty persuasive...

Public Address

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:50:17 +1200

Discussion from blog post.