Paula Bennett will do to the cannabis debate what she did for the state housing meth hysteria.
So National’s response to the need for a rational debate on cannabis reform is appointing the woman who helped create the state house meth hysteria that needlessly cost the country $120million and threw thousands of beneficiaries onto the street.
Paula Bennett, who exposed beneficiary details when they criticised her.
Paula Bennett, who implemented pointless drug testing regimes for welfare.
By selecting Paula Bennett as their spokesperson on cannabis, National have clearly singled they have no wish to seriously debate the issue and are simply going to do everything in their power to degrade it into the prehistoric fear mongering debate of yesteryear.
When Paula Bennett is your answer, the question is worthless.
agree 100% Martyn also nationals choosing nick smith for maori crown relations shows they don’t give a flying fuck about our maori people
It’s like Monty Python or Faulty Towers.
No-one in National has a sensible opinion around this topic do they?
National may regret this, it is the 21st century apparently…
online at least, some of the filthiest right wingers imaginable say they are voting YES for whatever liberalisation the referendum offers, tamer Nats seem only concerned about getting organised crime out of dope, and ” drug driving”-but definitely want medical cannabis available to them
Neo Libs will support due to entrepreneurial opportunities, so the holdouts will likely be religious nutters, of which there are still quite a number in NZ, but hopefully not enough to sway this referendum
Say what u want, but how much of the electorate actually base their vote on cannabis law reform? Given ALCP’s polling, not that many.
Some National voters will roll their eyes at Paula, some will applaud and some Labour voters will switch to National.
In some ways this is probably a smart move by National. They just need to be careful not to become a total clown show, which they are, but hey – no accounting for taste.
National’s answer is to put more people in prisons and then build more prisons. Then privatise prisons. That’s not a solution, that’s a giant leap into the past. If anything shows the difference between the Left and Right, it’s this. National is incapable of original thinking.
National and Sensible are mutually exclusive.
I think you all underestimate the numbers involved in this movement, it encompasses a lot of folks ive never seen on the cannabis band wagon before, loads of old folks want medicinal cannabis NOW. it has not gone unnoticed that arthritis and cancer are kept under control bye these new (old) processed cannabis products.
These are two main causes of discomfort in old age, once the oldies are onside Prohibition is doomed and so are the Nasty Natz, as for the Justice system for profit model, it has collapsed in its country of origin the U.S.
Personally i think this will be the issue for the next election also bye then man made climate change will be finally debunked because of what has happened this northern hemisphere winter. I WANT MY CARBON TAXES BACK.
Where We Go 1 We Go All
Rickoshay you’re right about oldies using medicinal cannabis. When I had a hip replacement operation (12 years ago)I included cannabis in the list of medicines I was taking. The surgeon told me that lots of older people were using it for pain. I had no hip joint by that time and needed another joint for pain relief. I was hopeless at smoking but it was still better than anything my GP prescribed. I look forward to when I can take it in a more palatable form, legally.
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