Posts by Shep Cheyenne
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Emma - I'm just a little suprized as I can't stand it. I must say I don't normally comment on these issues in public to people I don't know, but as the song says "smoke gets in your eyes".
And as they said in Blazing Sadles "we don't need no stinking Badgers".Christchurch has banned open fires, 'clean burning' is the only way to go & yet that programme is nowhere near complete.
Aucklands air is polluted by exhaust funes, bring on the trains.
I know a few of those old ladies who buy expensive perfume that reacts to smell like a tom cats been traped in their wardrode for a week - urgh.
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Sofie - that means you would rather suffocate than die of carbonmonoxide poisoning.
Please don't go into any air tight rooms, we might disagree but not that much :-)
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Emma - You don't notice that toxic tang when someone comes in after smoking or you entre an empty lift that has just taken smokers back from injesting their cancer rockets?
RNZs Kim Hill interview had it that all meth uses would get a psycosis with prolonged use.
Of course with enough binge drinking you too could end up with grumpy oldman syndrome -ie Barry Corbett.
Cocaine & Heroin I know nothing about, but have had aquantences relay stories. Carribian Coke is superior to the Mediteranian Coke apparently, I nod and wonder exactly what a hot 30yr sister of a friend has been doing for the past decade on luxury yachts. Great stories about Paris Hilton going commando & Naiomi Campbells 3 day binge party etc.
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MMP is part of a growing movement for a greater participatory democracy.
Imperfect and still evolving, devolution of power from central to regional, district, & Iwi (or other) have provisions in law (RMA specifically - not sure on the rest).
That Maori & the Maori Party have had a greater voice under MMP & the growth of '3rd' or 'MMP' parties, ACT & the Greens have both supported the Maori Party on Foreshore & Seabed.
As such the Maori Party & all interest groups outside of the major parties have a shared interest in MMP as a system of government.
FPTP is designed to disenfranchise the majority of the vote in support of the largest minority. MMP requires at least 1/2 of the elected representatives are satisfied and as such is the fairer electoral system.
Myself I'm not a particular fan of representative democracy and would preffer more participatory democracy, which would require less MPs and more government information for public decisions.
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Hypocracy - Yeah kinda thought so.
But as Kyle points out his dog crap can get him in some doo doo to the tune of $300.
And flu epidemics will hit again. We are on record as saving a SARS out-break from happening, with one recorded case and the health system containing it.
Be offended if someone sneezes on you, it might change behaviour & save lives when the big flu hits, as it surely will, again.
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Kyles right. He has a valid claim to clean fresh air.
Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
To argue that a human does not have a right to clean air has rather wider implications.
Enforceable 3/6m distant from buildings/bus stops when smoking would be a start. Yep this would effectively ban smoking in public.
Not sure if it's hypocracy, but like when my mates are drunk or smoking outside, I don't mind. It's the drunks & smokers that I don't know that piss me off.
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Parking tickets are about curbing peoples behaviour, directing them to other modes of transport and to raise revenue for the council to support public transport.
I like this idea to deal with drugs, and it should have wider applications too where instant fines for various behaviours are handed out - you can argue the toss later if you want or pay up and take the hit, get over it and move on.
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Paul - that's the point.
So much of the pro-marijuana lobby use the word 'safe' or other mitigating language.
dc red - absolutely - Prison is a mad hell of a concept & for the vast majority of prisoners <3yrs sentences just shouldn't be an option, similarly it may be acting as a repository for the mentally ill.
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Paula there is a question of credibility with your source.
I trust this one.
http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/2000/27-11-00_press_release.html
"University of Otago Respiratory Research Group to strongly endorse warnings by the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation of New Zealand against tobacco and marijuana smoking."
http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/2002/22-11-02_press_release.html"Results showed that use of cannabis increases the risk of schizophrenia by 30%."
" daily use in young women was associated with a more than five-fold increase in the odds of later depression and anxiety"
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Mikaere - I'm not playing the legal game - but risk & knowledge.
The Greens Drug Policy Section 1 & 3 - sweet as no issues.
I don't want the drug legalised or normlised, possibly the parking ticket style of policing might be handy here (agree to disagree stage).
Section 2.3 on growing your own contradicts the notion of making it legal. If it's grown there'll be a market, medical, green dollar, or commercial hydro style.