Posts by Russell Brown
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I had heard that Police Association president Greg O'Connor was going to make an outright call for drug legalisation and regulation, but he seems to have lost his nerve at the last moment. Still, interesting ...
Association president Greg O'Connor told Morning Report that any liberalisation of drug laws needed to recognise that you cannot decouple drug use from the dealers.
He distinguished between the approaches taken in the Netherlands and the US state of Colorado, saying only the latter had tackled supply. He argued that simple tolerance adopted in the Netherlands did nothing to regulate drug dealers.
"If you are going to liberalise our drug laws you have to have a look at Colorado which is probably a better model than the Netherlands" he said.
However Mr O'Connor has refused to say whether or not he supported the adoption of a Colorado-style approach in New Zealand.
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Hard News: UMR: Medpot and the public, in reply to Corin H,
Colorado model seems to be working the best so far in US states that have legalised. Think this is because recreational retail system was based upon a pre-existing and well functioning medical retail system.
Yep, I think this is very much why. They were already doing things like bar-coding and tracking seedlings, so they had a working system for monitoring supply and distribution.
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Hard News: UMR: Medpot and the public, in reply to Craig Young,
I'd be much more optimistic about Norml with Chris Fowlie back at the helm than ALCP, who seem determined to pick the wrong fights. But I do think their cause is being helped by others entering the debate.
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This set-piece between Kevin Hague and Peter Dunne in Question Time today – and lets face it, they both know what's going on – is pretty awesome.
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The Checkpoint report, story and audio.
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Hard News: UMR: Medpot and the public, in reply to Cameron Price,
I could not have put it better, Cameron.
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Hard News: UNGASS and the "Drug Free…, in reply to Alfie,
I think your mistake here Alfie is treating something Coleman said on the issue as a statement made in good faith.
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Hard News: UMR: Medpot and the public, in reply to Cameron Price,
It’s worth noting that for an overwhelming majority of cannabis users, their use is de facto decriminalised.
This is true. The police have basically begun to unilaterally practice decriminalisation, because the politicians are too scared to do it.
The problem is that this kindness does not appear to be spread evenly. If you're young and brown-skinned, you're more likely to be charged.
And the people growing a few plants for themselves in their backyards in the Waitakeres (some of them for medical purposes, anecdotally) are still copping it. The police can't undertake the very expensive annual cannabis recovery operation and not charge people. That would be awkward.
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And, importantly, the slide on methodology.
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Here are those slides again, so you can embiggen them for easier reading.
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