Posts by Russell Brown
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The new, improved path from Hakanoa to Sackville Street, part of the Grey Lynn to Cox's Bay route. Not quite finished, but very nice.
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Access: Marion Bruce, 1925-2016: New…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Thanks Jason. It is often easy to overlook the work of those who have helped ease the way for those who follow.
As I've written before, our family owes a lot to Barb Kirby, who founded O.A.S.I.S, the first family-driven Asperger resource. She was only three or four years ahead of us, but what she did made a huge difference when we got our diagnosis. Everything else on the early web was cold and clinical – her site made sense.
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Hard News: UMR: Medpot and the public, in reply to Tom Johnson,
Doses and plant, will keep Unis busy for decades very soon.
Hell yes. The two studies on 50-50 THC/CBD in treatment of glioma (a fast-growing, very hard to treat brain tumour) are just the tip.
Then there are the other cannabinols. And then the terpenes. It's a hell of a plant, it turns out.
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Brian Eno just tweeted the link to a 1971 Sun Ra show in the Netherlands.
It's a very, very good recording. Only hassle is that each track is a separate download. Mr Eno has the finds.
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Further on the Lontalius tip, here he is talking about the album with Samuel Flynn Scott for Music 101.
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Hard News: UMR: Medpot and the public, in reply to Alfie,
Phillips Matthews in Stuff on Peter Dunne as the quiet drug reform visionary.
Interesting interview. Dunne does tend to avoid addressing his prohibitionist days, but there's no doubting his views have evolved considerably.
And, unlike nearly all other current MPs, he's prepared to talk about reform. The clowns who routinely abuse him on Twitter don't seem to get that.
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The Herald's lead story today:
Pike River widow Anna Osborne is set to self-medicate with medicinal marijuana - even if the move turns her into a criminal.
Mrs Osborne, 50, lost her husband, Milton - the father of their two children - in the 2010 mining tragedy on the West Coast.
The explosion " which killed 29 miners and contractors " happened just a month after doctors told Mrs Osborne she was again battling Hodgkin's lymphoma. She had been first diagnosed with the blood cancer eight years earlier but overcame it with radiation therapy.
Now, more than 5 years after the tragedy that left her a widow, Mrs Osborne has revealed she has been fighting cancer the whole time since.
In an exclusive interview with the Weekend Herald, Mrs Osborne said she wanted an alternative to conventional painkillers that mask the side effects of her treatment.
She is set to self-medicate with cannabis oil and is prepared to be sent to jail for doing so.
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What a realistic policy needs to do is remove the criminal element from the equation. This is why the Netherlands’ policy on soft drugs has stumbled – Amsterdam’s coffee shops may be able to sell up to 5 grams of cannabis per person per day but it remains illegal to produce, possess, sell, import and export drugs.
In Colorado, where regulated growers supply cannabis, anecdotal evidence suggests the new approach is working well. The legalisation was touted as saving taxpayers as much as US$10 billion a year in law enforcement.
Developing a new, balanced, comprehensive drug policy will be a complex undertaking. We should not rush to make changes but instead take the time to ensure we get it right.
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Hard News: UMR: Medpot and the public, in reply to Lisa Black,
From the NZ Law Society website:
This is part of how momentum gathers. The researchers are interested, the doctors are interested, the lawyers are interested. The politicians can't refuse to discuss it for ever.
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Hard News: UMR: Medpot and the public, in reply to Alfie,
Right winger Larry Williams takes this myth to a whole new level.
If its legal, it’s cheaper, and it stands to reason more drugs will be consumed, more young people will experiment. It follows that more consumption means more addicts, and more crime.
Like most of his talk radio brethren, Larry Williams doesn’t know shit. Legal pot in Colorado is in most cases more expensive than the illicit.
And, as you note, the rest of his “common sense” brainfart isn’t any better. It’s like these guys are paid to be ignorant.
Update: I've read the whole column. Sweet Jesus. It's almost an achievement to be that wildly, consistently wrong.
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