The first test of Jacinda & Labour was whether or not they use their massive majority to revoke a racist drug law – she & Labour have refused point blank to do that!
Labour could change a racist drug law, but they won’t because 50.7% support the racist drug law!
This is appalling political cowardice!
Allowing 50.7% of the population criminalise the other 49.3% is the very worst example of the tyranny of the majority!
To the sanctimonious fucks who scream ‘this is democracy’ – no it’s not, it’s majoritarianism! THIS WASN’T A BINDING REFERENDUM yet Labour are pretending it is and despite the barest of No votes, the huge chunk demanding reform is impossible to ignore!
67% of NZ voted against asset sales, yet John Key not only sold them, he used a taxpayer sweetener for those who bought them!
The Right can ignore referendum when it comes to selling state assets, yet apparently the Left can’t ignore a referendum to overturn a racist drug law!
The fact is that there is a HUGE mandate to revoke this racist drug law and take the power out of organised crime while gaining desperately needed taxation and jobs!
What is the point of having a vast Labour majority if they refuse to revoke racist drug laws?
What is the point of voting Labour if they will only implement National policy?
Not one week of the next 3 years should pass without reminding everyone that Labour’s first step of their second term was to reinforce the bigotry of the 50.7% against the remaining 49.3%
Fuck Labour and fuck the prohibitionists.
Fuck the religious right from America for intervening in our politics.
Fuck Family First and their bloated hypocrisy.
Fuck a nation of alcoholics lecturing stoners on health.
Fuck the petty spite of Kiwis who would side with organised crime to ensure their fucking pockets are still full of drug money.
Fuck a Nation of straight narks when the home of the war on drugs, America, is now more progressive on weed than we are.
I feel for every NZer who has been persecuted by this racist drug law and am genuinely sad that today is not the day when they can feel vindication.
One day comrades, one day we will fucking wipe this country of these fucking prohibitionists and we will have our herb!
Fuck them! Fuck them all!
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Fuck you foreign resident voters… citizens only… same for home purchases…
Oh Martyn, surely you didn’t believe that an Adern-Robertson-Little government would listen to the people or act in ways that would benefit the majority of the people!
NZ is a farm, and the government manages the livestock on behalf of the owners. Labour or National, the owners really don’t care very much because Labour is the same as National, with just a few more breadcrumbs falling off the ‘elites’ feasting table occasionally.
Anyway, you shouldn’t worry about it too much. Enforcement of petty crime laws will be the last thing on the minds of the police when the shit really hits the fan of the globalised economic system later this year or early next year, and the vast majority of political leaders throughout the ‘developed’ world are seen to be self-serving cheats and liars with little or no acumen. Covid-19 out of control; global overheating out of control; money-printing out of control…
Sure, NZ is doing slightly better than most other nations on Covid control, simply because we are surrounded by water…and an awful lot of it, which makes it extremely difficult for ‘boat people’.
What you should worry about is how you are going to feed yourself and those close to you.
‘Soylent Green’ is coming to a city like yours.
Meanwhile, ‘Mad Max’ is coming to America, along with ‘Soylent Green’.
Wasn’t the original Mad Max or Road Warrior or whatever it was called set in 2021?
Definition of democracy
1a: government by the people
especially : rule of the majority
b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
From Stuff. Looks like the electorates that are best known for money landering, tax evasion and worker exploitation don’t like cannabis. Botany (66.1% against), Pakuranga (63.2%), and Takanini (59.8%).
Lets not forget our covid spreading christians.
good comment DS!
Let us all fight the racism in the country rather than change just a drug law that 50%vof the people are happy to continue..The police that enforce the drug law are the same police that enforce the road rules and pull over more young Maori for small offences than young white drivers. Many doctors teachers and government officials all treat Maori and Pacifica as lesser
people . Those that allow this to happen need to be made accountable . Hopefully with so many Maori in the halls of power this may happen..This is where the energy needs to go not trying to change a drug law.
Let us all fight the racism in the country rather than change just a drug law that 50%vof the people are happy to continue..The police that enforce the drug law are the same police that enforce the road rules and pull over more young Maori for small offences than young white drivers. Many doctors teachers and government officials all treat Maori and Pacifica as lesser
people . Those that allow this to happen need to be made accountable . Hopefully with so many Maori in the halls of power this may happen..This is where the energy needs to go not trying to change a drug law.
“Many doctors teachers and government officials all treat Maori and Pacifica as lesser” That would explain the racist separatism evident in the medical school student selection processes & the DHB’s providing care on the basis of race instead of medical need.
Andrew, a man with a little heart, and a feeble little mind, and big boots to fill.
Oh well time to look at moving to Canada.
Daughter of Blair has her shell game majority! Why risk it for meaningless measures that’d risk it?
Dear Mr Bradbury. While I agree with your sentiment, my my – such language! I appreciate you feel powerless, and disappointed. Such frustration vented suggests you have yet to figure a meaningful way forward in this debate – ie you’re giving up. I believe there is a way, so please – bless you – refine your verbs – and help us forward and into the age of enlightenment. xxx
n o c
Fuck off and take your pious sanctimony with you.
This is a battle front not a bible lesson.
Tut tut. The abominable syntax of your second sentence is a greater misuse of the English language than Bradbury appropriating Geoffrey Chaucer. Tut.
Be careful, careless bestower of kisses. You may trigger the woman from Nelson who counts his commas – or lack thereof – with her knitting needles. Next it could be Marama and the cunts. What a way to start a day…
No-one – If you believe that there IS a way, then why just you just go ahead and do it yourself ? What’s stopping you ?
Assuming that Bradbury is giving up because he uses ‘unrefined verbs’ doesn’t stand to reason either. Time to help yourself forward.
n o o c, I feel even more pissed off than Martyn and feel a need to unleash a tirade of abuse at those responsible for this wasted opportunity, vent my spleen at the conservative handbrakes controlling Aotearoa.
I thank Bomber for doing it on my behalf, this is his blog and he can do what he wishes. I can’t.
Labour won’t clamp down on dairy polluters ruining waterways. They won’t implement a capital gains tax to stop NZ being used as a game of monopoly with a nation of slave renters (how many other countries can you fly into one day, buy a house and citizenship the next and start voting or even legislating?). They won’t address unfettered rabid immigration (they certainly won’t give Maori a fair go or access to housing/jobs/health/opportunity/future before providing for their sparkly new residents). They won’t get progressive on drugs. They will however allow corporates such as the pharmaceutical industry to advertise on our TV (the other country allowing this is America, doped up to the eyeballs), to corner the market and charge billions for life saving medicines, and cheer lead for pandemic vaccines and batshit lockdowns. They will adore social media companies (utilities) who use the personal information of most of New Zealanders and don’t pay for their little surveillance gig but all the while censor anything not woke left or suiting the new elite agenda. Labour will allow corporates such as the film industry to bully New Zealanders and influence our legal system. They will willingly sell out the rest of business to trade deals which cede our sovereignty, bargaining and wealth. Labour will publicly sob over terrorist acts overseas but shrug their shoulders when domestic terrorists (gangs) in this country shoot people on our streets. They are lame ducks more concerned with public relations, persona, image and reputation. They have been compromised by lobbyists, woke ideology or self interest. Maybe they have an investment property or two and a cushy job waiting for them in the celebrity circuit when they’ve had enough of governing.
100% It’s devastating the cynicism of these empty shell game wretches.
The crooks and the pharmaceutical industry will be celebrating.
What does that tell you?
Yeah they should decriminalize and Little was wrong to rule out any reform before the specials were even counted but the pm is in a jam, she said shed honour the referendum results do you really expect her after saying that to turn around and go against the winning result? How would y’all feel if yes won and she did the same. She can’t do that …
What she can do is voter yes in a conscience vote on ANOTHER weed reform bill. Theres zero stopping that … So get to tabling a.bill Chloe
For all the hatred on the left about boomers , while youth turn out was up somewhat from 2017…. Most stayed home… People ought to blame young people not boomers young people stayed home just like USA this week. They just don’t care, I dont think it’s alienation anymore all the young people I know are pretty comfortable mostly lefty liberals who just don’t care and can’t be bothered.. it’s infuriating
You and trump would be good mates.
Both trying to subvert the will of the people.
oh great one of the nopers who thinks they’re wonderful.
Hey noper, thanks for allowing the gangs to continue supplying anybody with weed.
Thanks also for making sure there is no regulation and control so your children can have easy access too.
You brainy ones sure did the country proud…..NOT
john key would be very proud of Labour.
Sorry to read that you’re so upset @ MB. This, is a very frustrating anti-development and indeed fuck them all.
I wonder just how much sway the booze barons have over labour? Could that be it?
ron brierly was a key player in having booze made available in supermarkets wasn’t he?
Wasn’t he Progressive Enterprises?
If that old hook nosed bloodless lizard can slide past serious charges of possessing child porn which he seems to have clearly done then what hope do we relatively good AO/NZ’ers really have?
Having written all that, I must give Labour a fighting chance. Given the last few decades of indecent and perverse control of us via neoliberalism we can safely assume that there must be an almost unimaginably tangled nest of lies and swindles buried deep in the dark woods.
How about a laundry metaphor?
Before we wash the laundry we must first gather all the dirty linen up in to one big basket.
That, is what I hope Labour’s endeavouring to do and given the nature of the Beast it must be done by stealth.
Slowly, slowly, catchy monkey.
Hi Mr Bradbury…I agree with you 100%.
The analysis of the vote shows the National/Act strong areas voted no…Labour/Green strong areas voted yes.
So, 1.45 million Kiwis voted yes, and there votes get ignored.
If Government feels they have your vote, and can ignore they will…trust me on that!
Solution? Do not give your vote to Labour, until Labour earns your vote..
The message is come and get my vote..No Cannabis=No Vote.
1) 70,000 more people voted “no” than “yes”. In a country of around 5 million. That’s barely a majority. It’s certainly not a significant majority.
2) I demand a recount. For a referendum where votes are being counted all across the country, that’s an incredibly close result. If the “no” vote were actually under 50% – even if it were still higher than the “yes” vote – the results wouldn’t be a clear mandate for keeping the status quo.
3) A number of young people I know didn’t vote Yes, despite supporting legalization, because they’d been bamboozled into fearing the proposed bill was good for Big Pharma not the cannabis culture.
4) As I said on the fediverse, a vote on retail sales was always going to be an uphill struggle, given the decades of reefer madness propaganda we have to correct against, reinforced by waves of funding from US corporate-conservatives. Add to that the End of Life referendum that freaked conservatives out and kept ACT distracted, and then a pandemic that made mobilizing grassroots supporters much more difficult. Given all that, getting within a hairs breadth of 50% shows we’re on the right track.
5) The Yes vote had only about 25% support in Nov, 2018 according to a Horizon Research poll. So the final result shows support a clear direction of travel away from prohibition, as people get access to reliable, fact-based information about the harms of prohibition and the benefits of legal regulation. If you combine that with a look at the age groups most likely to vote against, it’s pretty clear we’re headings towards a clear majority for legalization in the near future.
18 – 24 years: 63% for / 35% against
25 – 34 years: 69% for / 31% against
35 – 44 years: 60% for / 40% against
45 – 54 years: 57% for / 43% against
55 – 64 years: 41% for / 58% against
65 – 74 years: 33% for / 66% against
75yrs or over: 27% for / 73% against
https://www.helius.co.nz/post/cannabis-referendum-support-lifts-to-52-many-remain-undecided
6) If prohibitionists think that the legalization campaign is just going to accept that result and give up, they’ve got another think coming.
So if we had taken the Swedish approach to covid then a lot of the NO vote would be dead and it would have passed. Missed opportunity.
” NZ is a farm, and the government manages the livestock on behalf of the owners ”
An excellent analogy and deep down most people accept that is the status quo in most capitalist duopolies.
As for weed the government gave itself an ” out ” with not making the referendum binding so even if it had passed and the current result was reversed they would have used the excuse that it didn’t have majority support and may not have advanced it into legislation.
Chloe Swarbrick i hope will continue to keep this whole debate about legalising cannabis alive and try again with another referendum and legislation on the issue. This vote shows enormous support to legalise that was not there in the past so people are moving in the direction of re thinking the way we treat cannabis and the people who are criminalised by its use.
Bahahaha Jacinda’s not going to do anything that’s going to jeopardise her image hence why she wouldn’t tell the media which way she voted. Nah she just wanted to play us all off against each other, split us down the middle because Jacinda and her lovies will just carry on heads up their own arses. The lovies will still love her cause they are privileged just like her. They are not the ones getting arrested so who gives a flying fuck about all those Maori being arrested and done over by our racist police force. And on and on it goes. FTP !!!
PS: Narcs are going to be the ones to watch out for and there a plenty of them around. Just take a look at your neighbours.
Little deserves a smack in the chops, made a promise to deal to misinformation then did nothing!
If we didnt have the nope to dope influence we would have romped home with 60%+
The govt did this on purpose, they dont want it legal!
20 fuckin years trying to get this legal for what? These narcissists just keep running rings around us and there is fuck all we can do about it.
Hilarious that anyone thought Labour were a genuinely transformative political party just because Jacinda is the figurehead for it. I voted for the great Rimmer, and I hope he exposes all the rank hypocrisy and constant genuflecting at corporations that all political parties engage in, regardless of their colour or how charismatic their leader is.
The colourful lexicon and Imprecations which intermittently emanate from the premier blogger on this esteemed missive, does remind my of my days in the police.
My days in the police also motivated me to produce this pearl of wisdom.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ross-meurant-the-case-for-decriminalisation/DO3J7EI6CYH5A3GILOD4PZB52Y/
The Head Hunters, Mongrel Mob and the Asian Crime Syndicates must be over the moon with the continuing Prohibition of Cannabis.
Big Profits to be made in coming years as the Police are only picking up 3-4% of the imported methamphetamine that is imported into NZ.
This will only strengthen the NZ Gangs who are already running rampantly out of control here in NZ.
I can’t see Cindy and little Robbie tidying up the Gang Problem here in NZ ???
yip
and reason why?
read my link above
Motto for 2023 Election
No Cannabis = No Labour Vote…
1.45 million voters for Cannabis can change the Government
He! the rules of urine testing for a job should be abolished, mind you a ex ENGINEER union person now Minister, would find, a lets talk to the employers, we shall find a compromise, how come we are still piss tested, and if that is it not enough, I hide my union affiliation, fearing my boss will sack me if found out.
As we enter into a global depression, I have great hope that NZ’s survival instincts will kick in and they will legalised the pot so they can gather taxes from sales + save $ on jail and court time.
Liked how Zoe handled the media. It’s not over until we all give up and go away. Round 2…
So much outpouring of anger about 50% plus voting not to legalize a drug but no comment on the so called enviromental caring government going into bat for an overseas deep sea mining no comment on the last article from AAAP about benefits.. The majority of those commenting on this forum have the government you have longed for a Labour government with total power for the next 3 years. Is the most important thing you want them to do is to legalize a drug against the wishes of half the population ?
You should buy some CBD Trev, customs are letting people import it.
Hemp and its by products are more important than you think to the worlds survival.
Hemp medicine alone can calm the spirit, calm the heart and more you toward thoughtfulness and goodly ways…. hence all this fuss
Greens can use this to their advantage and totally decimate Labour next election if they make it a bottom line.
Oh, and fuck the hypocrite leader of the ‘Say Nope to Dope’ campaign who admitted on Radio Rhema the he had previously smoked cannabis, ‘every day for three years.’
Some people grow up and look back on their lives and see the mistakes they made and do not want others to make them weather it is drugs or using bad lauguage. To admit your mistakes takes a real hero.
He also made comment on TV about crushing pills up and injecting them. The guy was a hard core junkie but pot is the problem? His behavior indicated sociopathic tendencies which were confirmed by someone who knows him personally.
People make mistakes all the time, so why Cannabis users get singled out, instead of alcohol users
…Answer is, the Government decides.
Nothing else….
No Cannabis = No Labour Vote in 2023
You’ve said it all, Martyn. Never put truth behind tactics.
Though … democracy is close to the Left.
Jacinda’s fear of the negative above love of the positive is realistic in the moment and terrifying otherwise.
I’m doing my job by bike these days and feeling much better for it. I could say bike more or I could say get into a job involving exercise which is how it’s always better done.
This year I have planted some pretty weird looking vegetables that were labelled ‘kale’ but turned into something more like spastic lettuce.
Those un-germinating seeds are equally annoying.
People in white coats around the planet are bastardising our heritage with their fake science.
Regardless of morals, movies or any other made up bullshit, without decriminalisation and therefore accountability, the straight fact is that rogue geneticists will continue to breed and cross contaminate all the originals.
If we are not careful, the original mary-jane plant as designed by the loving planet Earth will no longer be found anywhere and black market super-weed, designed to stun and kill, will permeate the earth. Stun and kill.
Any organisation supporting this scenario must have a fairly questionable agenda.
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