The latest Cannabis Poll is out and it suggest we could beat the dirty filthy religious right prohibitionists!!!!
NZ Election 2020: New poll shows cannabis likely to become legalised
A new poll shows cannabis legalisation is on track to pass in the upcoming referendum, but only if Kiwis turn up to vote.
COME ON KIWIS!
We must fight the prohibitionists and those like the National Party who wish to empower Organised Crime with the status quo.
Let me tell you a wee story.
I was the co-editor of Craccum the Auckland University Student Magazine in 1993.
My co-editor and I published an infamous article called the Drug Supermarket where we noted that because cannabis was illegal, criminal gangs were moving into the upper common room and were setting up shop. One such criminal element selling drugs there was the serial rapist, the Parnell Panther, who once outed in the article, threatened to kill my co-editor who then had to go into hiding.
Oh the joys of a tertiary education. Good times, fun times.
27 years ago, it was astoundingly obvious that the prohibition of cannabis only empowered organised crime and that the hundreds of thousands of kiwis who have been arrested, hurt and damaged by this counter productive and spiteful war on drugs, especially when the drug is far less harmful than booze and tobacco, is beyond tolerance any longer.
This isn’t ultimately about markets, or marketing, or gutless cowardly politicians, it’s about getting the god damned state out of our fucking faces comrades.
We know it’s a racist system that penalises Maori and Pacifica far harsher than pakeha, this is about human rights and pushing the state out of our lives.
If you smoke weed, you shouldn’t be made a criminal. It’s as simple as that.
Advance voting for the election and referendum is open now!
Vote yes and het these prohibitionist arseholes out of our faces!
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I think the No vote will win. I hope the Labour/ Green government will have the balls to decriminalize the possession of marijuana, allow people to smoke in the privacy of their homes and more importantly allow people to grow 2 plants per person at homr tor their own use.
Its called cannabis Peter not marijuana and as for growing two plants, do people know how long a cycle takes to grow and then all the time it takes to dry, its a long process. And if your growing outside you can only grow once a year in NZ depending on where you live as it likes the heat. Many people don’t know the logistic of growing.
Some sort of Facebook or social media reminder close to polling day may rally the troops-the young people. We know the oldies will vote for sure, the young need to vote in number and if they do I reckon the Yes vote will fly in.
The same ‘Ok Karens’ that are keeping Labour in the high 40s WILL NEVER vote to legalise weed. The chances of legalisation passing is the same probability of National/Act forming a government – possible but requires a seismic shift in the last 2 weeks. They could have gone down the decriminalisation path and got people like me across the line (I see no point in prosecuting shot rags having a joint on Milford Beach or Lampton Quay) but no alas Angry and the Greens decided to screw the pooch instead. Ironic given Labour’s overall election strategy.
A strategic fail in the making
All these OK Karens you talk about are knocking over a bottle of wine every night. Not just them either.
This hypocrisy is creating a chasm that separates the generations.
LOL – so true.
Dirty money from overseas and the churches have been pumping their church donations into the say nope to dope campaign. And then we have people like Kate Baddock Chair of the Council of NZ Medical Association abusing her power using outdated policy from 2008. Baddock should get reprimanded for this abuse of power and she is falsely claiming to represent all their members when many members have claimed they haven’t been consulted. The scaremongering and stigma is bad and its divisive.
Totally agree , Kate was speaking well outside her brief, I wonder what her attitude is to the over prescribed drugs Doctors dish out and the harms caused , also what’s her opinion of alcoho, should this be illegal as will. Grossly unprofessional and very opinionated.
Anyone who has ever decried the “nanny state” and intends to vote No needs to have a good sit down with themselves and sort that shit out.
This is an incredibly information rich referendum-yet big money is being splashed about by religious nutters (and perhaps the booze industry some where in the mix) to create fear and doubt about all the questions that the proposed law and extensive research and experience overseas actually answers in detail!
Age, public use, anti monopoly, health emphasis, the business case, etc. etc. are all out in the open but not being publicised nearly enough. The decades long decline of youth voting and enrolment is doing the rest. It really would help if more senior politicians climbed off the fence too and endorsed a YES vote.
C’mon TDB readers, if you can only persuade one other person to enrol and vote YES then don’t hesitate-do it!
It’s a sure sign if you are finding it easy to hate others that you love your life in this world too much.
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