Posts by jo kerr
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After work you could, oh read a good book, write a good book, go for a run, cycle, aerobics class, enjoy a hobby, have fun with the family, chat to people online. Any number of things that are more life affirming than mind altering substances (alcohol included).
Perhaps I could, but I reserve the right to make that decision for myself,
And every so often I like the way a quarter of a joint makes me feel. The excess of a percentage of other users doesn't mean I need the right to make that decision taken away from me, just as vomiting drunks, alcoholics and underage drinkers downtown are not a rational or morally supportable reason for denying you the occasional expensive single malt. -
LOL Now its getting bloody ridiculous, the police want to keep records on whoever buys a bucket and spade and some Neta tube.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3634270/Police-to-monitor-hydroponics-sales.
I'm not a grower, I smoke about 4 joints a month, but this is making me bloody ANGRY !!!!! -
The statistics say it all, 13.4% of all New Zealanders have used cannabis in the last year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_cannabis_use_by_country
thats conservatively 585,000 people.
6500 prosecutions for 4200 convictions is just token (heh) ism.
So is this operation. Just a photo op for Crusher Collins and Rob Pope and some tabloid fodder. -
There's a study here http://www.shore.ac.nz/projects/Convictionreport.pdf on what the stats are on cannabis convictions and penalties.
It seems to be that the current level of convictions is 6.5k pa (down from 9.5k in 1999), so for a 2 year operation that pulled in 250 arrests this looks like its a flop. How does the prosecution rate compare with actual usage ?
The average penalties are 100hr community service $200 fine magnitude. This whole operation is just posturing.