This is a joke…
Cannabis: Auckland grandma becomes first to legally use dried cannabis flower to relief her pain
Sourced from Australia, the flower has less than 10 per cent THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) – which is the main psychoactive compound in cannabis – and was high in CBD (cannabidiol) which helped treat pain and lower anxiety.
…the reality is this…
Most medicinal cannabis users buy on the black market – report
Only 6 per cent of people who use cannabis medicinally are getting it legally, according to a Drug Foundation report.
This leaves about 250, 000 people who source medicinal cannabis on the black market.
…right after the referendum which showed almost a majority demanding cannabis law reform, Little killed off any cannabis reform and landed us instead with bullshit medicinal cannabis rules that only serve a billionaire while crushing the local medicinal cannabis industry.
Patients seeking medicinal cannabis now ARE WORSE OFF after Labour than before it!
Minister Little has the audacity to blame the industry which either suggests Andrew is either lying or grossly misinformed!
I am free anytime to explain to the Minister why he is wrong.
Labour have inadvertently set the medicinal cannabis industry up the way they have set the super market duopoly up. Labour have allowed the big pharma segment of the NZ market to write rules that exclude the smaller players which has led directly to the impasse we have now.
A framework that only the big pharma segment can pass through while fucking over medicinal cannabis patients as well as the wider industry.
Labour deserve nothing but contempt for their medicinal cannabis failure and if the Greens had any strategic brain they would make a legal market part of their agreement to form a government in 2023.
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I think those on the P Meth Pipe would be a lot better off smoking Cannabis IMHO, maybe we wouldn’t have had all that Aggression at the Covid Protest in Wellington ?
Agree +100%
I think those on the P Meth Pipe would be a lot better off smoking Cannabis IMHO, maybe we wouldn’t have had all that Aggression at the Covid Protest in Wellington ?
Early in the morning and people are trying to sort out what next for cannabis.
Old song – we used to sing this sort at school, now we should sing it to Mr Little and Labour.
You’ve tried rationality, persuasion, facts wot!, and felt like pointing out that there would be less
violence, and it would save money in one budget, and earn it in another, without the interventiion of big business. But I have noticed before with Labour that they don’t seem to want to deal with the micro business man.Too close to the ordinary man in the street!
Yodel our sorrows to the tone-deaf – it’s a crazy idea but it takes a lot to reach that rarified air in the beehive. Actually bees can be noisy all flapping their wings to keep the hive cool. Labour thinks it’s real cool!
Early one morning, just as the sun was rising
I heard a maid sing in the valley below
“Oh don’t deceive me, Oh never leave me,
How could you use, a poor maiden so….
Here I now wander alone as I wonder
Why did you leave me to sigh and complain
I ask of the roses, why should I be forsaken,
Why must I here in sorrow remain?
Heres the music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbzWwwg_N7s
Is Andrew Little purposely as useless as Poto or Phil Twyford or Megan Woods to be a team player or is he just useless naturally and arrogant too? Light weight as Justice Minister, he’s proven MIA in Health!
And the latest (ignoring mental health, strangled budgets, staffing shortages and hospitals that should have been bulldozed years ago)…
RAT kits. You know, the kind used to test for this thing he’d never heard of, Covid, because of the inability of the underfunded state to test or plan or prepare Yes, those things, stolen off order sheets of private industry who knew their worth! Deemed illegal by his ministry until a few weeks ago, these symbols of the devil but now begrudgingly accepted, are in the depth of this covid outbreak rarer than rocking-horse shit. What the actual fuck Andrew? You didn’t see it coming? You were unaware how incompetent your ministry is while the rest of us have seen it repeatedly over the Covid years?
The thing is we can’t find them to allow people to stay at work, so they have to go home and society slowly ceases to function.
I am terrified of this new centralised health system this turkey is bringing in. The ineptitude shown by Little, I think, knows no bounds and we can be guaranteed whatever he’s dreamed up will fail us all!
So am I terrified of this new centralised DHB health system.
It was brought in to bring the dhb’s into line after the Canterbury DHB told the Ministry of health to more or less go screw themselves after their hit man couldnt shut the board up.
Can’t be any worse than what we have now, with 1000’s of professional paper shufflers and administrators.
Wow!! You really should have taken the time to calm down before writing this comment… This is so emotional and convoluted that it simply disappears up itself. I’m starting to wonder if the “lunatic fringe” is now mainstream “informed” opinion… It’s getting so that I will be heading away from NZ as soon as practicable, just to get back to where there is sanity, and perspective employed in rational ways, because it’s not happening here…
The more I see and hear Little the more I think he is purposely sabotaging Jacinda’s reign out of spit for her taking the top job from him. What other excuse is there for his incompetence and lies . The fact that 10000 medical workers were prepared to go against their own moral compass and strike during a pandemic goes to show his poor rappore with the work force.
Thanks for the excellent article Martyn…you summed it up well.
Before the referendum I went to 2 meetings in Chch and heard 2 Labour candidates say medical cannabis was all sorted and would be readily available no matter what the outcome of the referendum was ..I voted against legalizing marajuana as I have seen the results of use by some but would have voted differently if it had made medical cannabis more freely available as I know it has helped many avoid opioids
The problem was the Referendum was badly worded and they lumped Medical Cannabis Use and Recreational Cannabis Use in the same Basket.
Yes it would appear Andrew Little has turned into an idiot. Unfortunately a little over 50% of the eligible voters in the country proved to be pretty stupid too when they voted no.
It’s easy to blame politicians on so many things when the public don’t look at themselves and wonder if they have a large hand in creating some of the problems. Like a number of posters on this blog who think Ardern put the paving bricks in the hands of the deluded in Wellington. Often the same people who accuse the government of not allowing people to take personal responsibility or ‘think for themselves’
They had the Women’s Yoga Classes lifting the cobblestones and supplying the fighters on the front lines, bit like the little old ladies making Molotov Cocktails in the Ukraine.
There is one thing to do now. Change the tragic voting system so that it has to be 59% for a majority. The Bresit vote showed that the UK, Father of Parliaments, needs to update itself after how many centuries.?
Brexit was 51% wasn’t it? The average poll has a 3% margin of error yet the vote can go through with just 1% majority. Nuts. And for legislation that changes external matters like trade preferences, it probably should be
66% or more.
And ill say it again Andrew to Little to late!
Don’t be hard on Labour. It is an old political party and like National is not what it was, but who is? Labour has cut ties with the unions and now is dressed by a tailor with better cut of cloth and style. As the play title said: ‘Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width’ or did I mean ‘The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd ‘?
Anyway as Labour has risen higher or sunk lower, whichever, the distance between the people usually perched up in the ‘gods’ and the politicians strutting on the stage has led to the ‘absence making the heart wander’ syndrome. Labour being for the people? That was the old days before we knew how to roll in money and remain free from the special stench of financial doggy-do that can cling to those who don’t practice effective hygiene.
Not sure what Andrew Little was thinking. Less and less I like this man. Shame really, as I admired his stepping down as Labour Leader in 2017. Even in rightwing governed US states, its legal.
I’m ready for a change of government
Good luck. There has been no change of government since the 1980s. #Globalism
Can’t be any worse than what we have now, with 1000’s of professional paper shufflers and administrators.
Unfortunately not thousands of paper shufflers in wellington, that’s half their problem….
I don’t think ‘Andrew’ will be a particularly popular name for new builds this year. All the real and decent ‘Andrew’s may want to restructure their hashtags.
It would appear voting Green may be the only way to see drug reform in this country. I’m making the switch.
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