Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: The beginning of the end of the Drug War https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Jackson James Wood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352324#post352324 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352324#post352324 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:43:11 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352317#post352317 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352317#post352317 Breaking Bad's Vamonos Pest, where they use a house fumigation company as cover for their meth lab. Taking this one stage further, a miscreant could use a meth lab cleanup firm as cover to run their own meth lab for a few… ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:47:15 +1300 tussock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352315#post352315 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352315#post352315 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:30:48 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352311#post352311 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352311#post352311 I’m hanging out to celebrate the Drug Peace :)

I thought that about the Cod Wars…

Joking aside, we have to realise a vast industry has grown up around the demonisation of drugs, the “Meth House Cleaners” for a start.
It cost as much to “clean” a house as it…

]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:53:38 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352289#post352289 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352289#post352289 because it’s not just about drugs, it’s about racism and inequality too.

I have a Matters of Substance story coming up based on interviews with Maori MPs about drug law. There is a quite a range of positions, but a broad recognition of the way the justice system hurts Maori.…

]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2015 09:45:06 +1300 Jackson James Wood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352277#post352277 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352277#post352277 I'm hanging out to celebrate the Drug Peace

That was something else that Nadelman was talking about. What happens next. Well there are all sorts of other things to keep us busy on the human rights front, because it's not just about drugs, it's about racism and inequality too.

]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2015 07:40:33 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352257#post352257 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352257#post352257 Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:19:58 +1300 Mark Graham https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352249#post352249 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352249#post352249 Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:21:10 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352187#post352187 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352187#post352187 But it wasn’t until a man named William Bennett became the first ever ‘Drug Czar’, that the conflict took off. Bennett, with his policies driven by fear and moral conservatism, turned America’s law enforcement apparatus into a machine for chewing up human — mainly Black and Latin — lives.

Where…

]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:50:02 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352186#post352186 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-drug/?p=352186#post352186 Discussion from blog post.

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