Dear Labour, Greens & NZ First – you’ve whimped out on CGT, meaningful welfare reforms, censored Maori voices from mental health & wont interview Afghan survivors from our war crimes but sweet Jesus if you deny us legal weed I’m going to loose my shit

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When Andrew Little is having to redefine what the word ‘binding’ means, you know we are fucked…

Little guarantees binding cannabis referendum – but yet to define ‘binding’

Justice Minister Andrew Little has guaranteed that next year’s cannabis referendum will be binding, but says he will explain “what binding actually means” when the next details are announced.

…I think we always feared that behind the scenes the Greens seemed to have no strategy whatsoever to force the cannabis issue but what National have leaked suggests they were even weaker than we could possibly imagine.

We aren’t being offered a joint, we are being offered a spliff.

It doesn’t look like there is any clear idea of what a legalised market looks like and that all we are going to get is some bullshit personal use scenario that doesn’t create taxation and keeps the power firmly with organised crime.

And it won’t even be binding?

This is some weak weed Andrew, lots of stalk and leaf. No buds whatsoever.

Labour, Greens & NZ First – you’ve whimped out on CGT, meaningful welfare reforms, censored Maori voices from mental health & wont interview Afghan survivors from our war crimes but sweet Jesus if you deny us legal weed I’m going to loose my shit.

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18 COMMENTS

  1. What is most annoying is that we maybe threatened by some one going over the recommended dosage of marijuana and fall asleep. Marijuana is a nice image of how we are not really in a consumerist society. This idea that all of a sudden we must consume in a safe way. It’s the idea of having products that provide pleasure but none of its dangers. A society with these kinds of contradictions wants to be limitless consumerists in the safest possible way and that kind of narcissistic economy says is “enjoy it as you go about life but safely” as if life is considered to risky. We have to get away from these promotional ideologies and enable everyone to think for themselves.

  2. Disagree that they “wimped out”
    Their bases might like these ideas (maybe not NZ First)
    But for the partys’ leadership teams this is all as intended – remember Shaw & Grant’s teams cooked up the budget responsibility rules.
    They may cry crocodile tears, but this is what they want

  3. “what binding actually means”..that’s hilarious. And a bit smarmy from Mr Little. Its the sort of double speak that I would have expected from someone like Collins or Key really. Maybe the ‘nice’ mask of Labour is slipping, maybe they are relying on our fear of National to win them the next election.
    Good luck with that.
    Anyway, maybe they should have clarified, pre election, that they would need to define what ‘Lets Do This’ actually means…apparently not a lot…

    • I thought it spoke volumes about Andrew Little’s character that we stepped aside before the last election but I just don’t know where that guy has got to any more.

      It’s starting to feel like the Labour party is being controlled by someone else – I mean, I knew they were going to be pretty lame and I don’t really think there is a conspiracy here, but this is getting ridiculous!

      • “Controlled by–”
        Yup it happens. Controlled by The burocrats.
        And they are excessively influenced by America.
        Take Bugs Burgess who commanded the dot com raid.
        Trips our burocrats make to the defender of the free world where they learn about terrorism in all shapes and forms
        *trade protection
        *anti China
        *anti Russia
        *CIA
        *Freidman economic theory
        *Pharmaceutical mafia
        *Military alliance
        The problem is when MP’s are captured by the burocrats who report to them.
        And not many MPs have the brains and the balls to stand against the tide.
        Auntie Helen did when the Yanks unlawfully invaded iraq 2003.
        But that was an exception.

        • ” Auntie Helen did when the Yanks unlawfully invaded Iraq 2003″

          No she didn’t, sending 60 troops supporting the British invasive forces is supporting an illegal war, I don’t care how they attempt to spin it.

      • There is a book coming soon
        OUT OF THE INFERNO
        It will be available via this blog site
        A novel of course – but demonstrates well your concern about Who Rule this great country of ours.

    • ‘Let’s do this’ clearly meant hood-winking many voters, who were desperate for an alternative to National and ACT.

  4. @ MB. Best put a tracker on your shit then.
    Given how many people are deliberately rendered addicted to SSRI’s in AO/NZ and sundry other pharmaceutical poisons and toxins, like prednisone for example, and of how profitable those addictions are to the manufacturers who pimp them to us for our many bankster foisted anxious neuroses we’re never going to see a Portugal effect here for as long as the stink of peter dunne still lingers around parliament. You smell mothballs, stale breath and BO? Therrrrrrreees peter! As for andrew little? He needs to toke a short blunt and take a long bubble bath.
    We must learn. That we are governed by a combination of the blindingly simple minded coupled with the unbelievable arrogance of the riche boomer law maker class who would rather start a war and then have someone else fight it for them than admit they were wrong.
    We’re being governed by fools, cowards and no- common-sense types thus the terminally witless who foist absurd laws on us.
    The Guardian report on the rise of CBD oil in relieving just about every ailment one can imagine.
    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/05/cbd-a-marijuana-miracle-or-another-health-fad-cannabidiol-anxiety-epilepsy
    And our fucking moron politicians are denying us access to such a tremendous thing. Who the fuck do they think they are?

  5. The doctor BIG Pharma lobby would prefer to doll out opioids and kill old New Zealanders off imo for things like fibromyalgia

    ….big corporate money and vested interests are against cannabis homegrown and do it yourself cannabis product medication and CBD oil

    …it is nothing less than corruption and murder …they should be held to account

    • 10000% Mary _A You hit the nail on the head there.

      Jacinda is to timid and scarred to make such a derision there.

      She plays one against the other you can bet this.

      I don’t take drugs neither does my family but i believe in ‘Live and let live’

      • I think I understand what you say but what I sort of don’t get is believing in ‘Live and let live.’

        Because I don’t take drugs and neither does my family (as far as I know), should I say of those in our community who are right into P, or P is right into them, that’s their business ‘Live and let live’ ?

        • I do not think it is a coincidence that worker-insecurity and drug use and suicide began early it’s epic 40 year rise in the statistics after the introduction of Rogernomics. These are not natural events like a hurricane that occurs in everyday life. These events are man made events with intelligent design, created by the system. It would be evil of us to continue being ignorant of a system designed to punish.

  6. This annoys me to hell – but New Zealand is such a conservative country with a vast amount of its population still living in 1975, that I can’t say it comes as a surprise

    • Yep
      1975 mentality.
      John Wayne and Elisabeth Taylor and Elvis are still alive.
      PS
      Oh We lost the war in Vietnam but lets not talk about that or Agent Orange legacy we left behind.
      Bring back Sid Going and Colin Meads
      Lion Red

  7. labour called their members and sent emails to ask if they supported the CGT and obviously they didn’t which is why they dumped the policy simple as that. (they didn’t have the mandate) I don’t know why people are making such a fuss lets move on to the next issue and next attempt at trying to implement fairness in our tax system.

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