Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Gaffer Departs, in reply to Rob Stowell,
The WORD thing looked great. And a good after party it seems :)
The plan had been to go to the Spinoff's late-night salon, but I realised I have access to smartarse Aucklanders any time. Going back to Graeme's hotel room and drinking some whisky ... that was family.
Shout-outs to Hollie, who was incredibly tolerant of the old folks yakking about the old days.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Gaffer Departs, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Dammit, I was too sick to go!
That was pretty much the first thing Jay told me when I saw her! What a bummer. We'd have sat you in the front row.
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Hard News: Medical cannabis: a polling experiment, in reply to Thomas Lumley,
I have been surprised to find this from undergraduates talking about cannabis. Interesting to see it isn’t just my selection bias.
I don't have the reference to hand right now, but my recollection is that this isn't the first time.
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Hard News: Medical cannabis: a polling experiment, in reply to william blake,
I would be very interested if pharmacists came up with a reliable, cannabis based, nerve analgesic without the side effects of the crap that is currently prescribed.
I know a MS patient who says Sativex (50-50 THC-CBD) is much better for nerve pain than other things she’s used, and with fewer side-effects. It apparently has some psychoactive effect, but nothing like getting on the bong. The trial evidence isn’t super-strong, but Canada, for example, specifically approves it for use in treating neuropathic pain.
Bad news is that (for reasons of varying merit) it’s not Pharmac-funded, so would cost up to $800 a month. Good news is that a series of applications for an equivalent and much cheaper non-pharma-grade product is about to begin. Your GP would need to apply for either, noting that other medications have been unsatisfactory. The non-pharmaceutical-grade applications need to be approved by Peter Dunne, but he’s actually very ready to do that at the moment.
It is kind of crazy that an approved, relatively low-impact product requires ministerial approval while a specialist can prescribe valium or clonazepam or implant a baclofen pump with any such hoops to jump through.
Also: yeah, epilepsy drugs. Many years ago, someone gave me an epilepsy tablet at a party, assuring me it’d be good – it wasn’t, it was bloody awful.
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Just an update on the Flying Nun event at WORD Christchurch on Saturday: it went very well – the performances especially.
Jay Clarkson played The 3Ds' 'Spooky',, Graeme played 'Dunedin Spleen', Hollie played a song from her Hamish Kilgour collab Hurtling Through and they all played JPSE's 'Shiver' in tribute to the late Jim Laing.
And then Graeme and Hollie decided they should play some more songs (like we were gonna say no) and went one-for-on for more than half an hour while Roger signed books, concluding with Graeme playing a beautiful version of '10 O'Clock in the Afternoon'.
Here's Roger signing books while Hollie plays.
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Norml's press release on the poll:
“What may be surprising to some is that most people want herbal cannabis sold at health food stores for therapeutic purposes, alongside the Marjoram,” said Chris Fowlie, spokesperson for the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML NZ Inc).
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Hard News: Orcon IRL on Journalism: The Video, in reply to Jason Kemp,
On a more positive note – I managed to watch the full clip over the weekend and to make it easier it is now possible to watch each section as they have been split out into separate clips.
Indeed. They're all here, folks.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Gaffer Departs, in reply to Sacha,
Stone finishing? What beasts. Very proud too of NZ’s Plinius being the reference amp other manufacturers use. And I’d love to meet a rimu Theophany speaker sometime. Sigh.
As was the case in other sectors, the impact of New Zealand's restrictive import regulations was broad: it resulted in quite shitty and very good products. Plinius (founded 1980) and Perreaux have held on with quality.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Gaffer Departs, in reply to Tim Michie,
. I was reliably advised Dee Snider is grand cool: Proof.
I really enjoyed interviewing him way back in the day. He struck me as a genuinely good sort.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Gaffer Departs, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
This week IT HAPPENED!
Use your power wisely, Robyn.
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