After fucking up the medicinal cannabis industry so that it’s exactly like the Supermarket duopoly, Labour have put the hard word on the industry to start providing actual flower bud to punters and so they”ve been quietly pushing their corporate solution – $75 joints!
You can get real cannabis from the doctor now
Hotu believes the price would put off anyone from faking an injury or a sleep disorder. He knows the weed he’s offering costs far more than it might on the street. Of the three strains he’s able to provide on the day I meet with him, prices range between $289 to $319 for 10 grams. (Three more strains should be available this week, and one of those, Kikuya, is approved for inhalation via a vaporiser.)
A $50 bag of weed is 3-4 grams, the prices the corporate venders are charging is way beyond what you get from the street.
It’s important for the middle class cannabis industry to pitch on middle class platforms like Spin-Off because they are the only societal elites who can afford $75 joints!
Hilariously they pretend that flower is to be consumed as a ‘tea’ and not smoked. That’s how you are being treated, like a fucking child.
Labour’s solution to medical cannabis has been to rig an industry for corporate interests (just like the Supermarket duopoly) and those interests state a joint is $75 so that the middle classes can enjoy a smoke without getting arrested, but fuck the working classes..
So while we are all very happy that once again the middle classes get their consumption of recreational drugs looked after, it’s the communities the pigs have always raided and smashed in their cannabis prohibition who are essentially still criminalised.
Just another Labour Party ‘solution’ masquerading as an actual solution.
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Hang on – did I miss something? Didn’t we have a referendum on this and the majority of New Zealanders told the government we didn’t want to legalize cannabis? Perhaps I am confused but I can’t see how this development fits with that referendum result.
Anti smacking bill.
They have a track record if ignoring referendums.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/ipad-editors-picks/8412749/Government-to-ignore-asset-sales-referendum
I wish.
To suggest it’s the majority of NZ that wants to keep cannabis off the legal market is a bit of a stretch don’t you think? It was a wafer-thin result that went to the incorrect decision on the side of the prudes, stiff upper lippers and faith heads. Any evidence-based approach sees the disaster that is prohibition. If the slim line don’t want a regulated market, then medical and decrimizilation is the way forward. Just massive shame folks can no longer build new businessses and friends with a regulated market.
A thin majority – but a majority nonetheless. And if it was all prudes and stiff upper flippers on one side, then surely it was all stoners and pot-heads on the other.
I voted for legalisation but I agree that Labor has precisely no mandate for this.
Jason, I wish it was all that on the other half….man that would good times indeed.
It was a large majority that were for law reform right up until right wing christian yanks dropped millions into a continued prohibition propaganda campaign in the final months, swinging just enough rednecks and idiots away from law reform to screw things up for everyone. Not a fair way to hold a referendum on anything. It needs to be held again without yank or any other outside interference.
I read an article a year after the referendum, was on the money the Scientologists were funneling into Australian charities. It woulnt be a stretch to consider they were doing the same to Family First eh.
I agree Jason.
Medicinal marijuana.
We had a referendum that allowed right wing religion to spread whatever misinformation they wanted to.
Everything they said went against what our own scientists found but they werent shut down at all.
They ran two campaigns, one through Family First, the other the Nope to Dope campaign, both used the same material and the same mailing address. If you were to combine the two they spent over the legal limit for an election campaign. But a review done after the referendum found nothing.
It was also made non binding in case we won…
Who would of guess that the Labour Party is turning into the Rich Person Party…
Is that even a sentence?
Me Nathan not that I’m happy with it.
All the Labour Drinkers that’s who.
No Financial Transactions Tax.
No Bank Profit Export Super Tax.
No Capital Gains Tax.
but Yes to Working Class Drinkers Alcohol Excise Tax increase by 7%.
Add the gst on to the excise increase Labour has basically increased the price of a beer by 10%. Do they even know who their constituents are?
Can we now accept that Andrew Little is the poorest Health Minister in New Zealand’s history. He makes Jono Coleman look like the second coming of Florence Nightingale.
Nah Frankie he does not come close to ” do more with less Coleman” I remember Colemans reign and his edict. He was the worst by a long long way.
But did the health system collapse under Jonos watch. It has under angry – cmon Bertie he is making Poto look competent at the moment.
Yes it did Frankie and then mustard did a runner as things sunk.
Coleman completely buggered the health system completely, but you think Little is worse
One would be left thinking you were an ideological hack.
Jason Labour run roughshod over everyone they are above the common person they are the elite.
Nathan yes they have betrayed their voter base yet there are regular commenters on this blog who defend them?Why don’t ask me.
And you are the regular attacker on this site I have noticed. Why, because of your political right wing bias, that is obvious. There easy.
Oh and by the way, the rest of your opinion is just plain nonsense.
Good old Gus a perfect example.
More nonsense by Bob, no better example than his response.
There you go Gus wonderful.
Etc, etc, etc and so on and so forth Bob, wonderful.
I don’t know much about medicinal cannabis but wouldn’t it be better delivered in tea if possible than inflicting smoke on lungs?
It’s harder to get the full effects and takes longer (as do edibles, admittedly).
Noone is using this stuff for medical reasons. It’s just to get high.
Tell it to those with pain and nausea.
That’s not at all true, @John.
I and many many many others use cannabis as a medicine.
I will thank you for desisting in perpetuating conservative right wing talking points from the 1950’s.
Do not belittle another’s lived experience.
The issue here is that there is no true working class solution for the problem as identified by Martyn.
I see micro enterprise as the way forward here Martyn, based on a collectivist model: not predicated on money.
Distributed micro networks, serving a low number of people.
Solar collection and storage of power, combined with rain harvest water utilised for sustainable low cost production.
The struggle starts with the people standing up.
I’m off to get high again now.
Heres Tom with the weather…
You’re not going to get very high on a 10% THC ‘tea’
I mean if it was an episode of ‘the thick of it’ people would go ‘naw too stupid people won’t laugh at that’ but this is ‘brass eye/day to day’ level satire, yet here we are in NZ 2022….come back Armando Iannucci all is forgiven
Many of us Maori don’t agree with you Frank in fact we think Little has worked tirelessly and tenaciously to get us to the MHA. And there is no time like the present we cannot continue to kick the can down the road if we truly want to achieve equity of health outcomes for Maori, PI and our poor Pakeha whanau. People need to stop making excuses its not acceptable in our county for our people to be treated like second class citizen we have had enough and if National stand in our way there will be consequences.
Gosh surely that’s not a threat?
No not a threat Bob the first, a promise
Bob is right CIP it is a threat that National will fail at the next election as they have not learnt their lesson from treating us like second class citizens. Remember that famous National party line “don’t you know who I am”.
Gosh a standover person.When do you propose to fulfill your promise?
Health “Equity” will, of course, specifically scapegoat poorer Pakeha & Asians, transforming them officially into second class citizens … basically allowing them to die well before their time.
rubbish, the public health sector will not stop providing the same level of care to any that come into their facilities.
Goodness me I really hope we can one day soon be able to legally “brew a tea” at home from a couple of plants. Seems so crazy that it costs so much from the docs.
Politicians are so out of touch with the working class folks. It’s just so frustrating.
Covid is PA, I think you are right, Andrew Little has worked hard to help with the MHA, great that he has. (I did forget that he had input etc )
I reckon Maori folks do need their own voice and authority. If a separate authority for Maori works out successfully and is positive then good on them. I can only wish them well with the venture.
I just wish though Andy would free up the medical weed to make it much cheaper and accessible for people.
Being in any type of long term chronic pain is no picnic to deal with. Plus the side effects from conventional drugs are bloody hard on the stomach.
This dude needs a hit asap! He’s seeing the number of the beast in his Drivers Licence!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/470199/bid-to-hold-driver-s-licence-without-photo-on-religious-grounds-rejected
A mark of piss-poorness. The minor matter of marijuana defeats these ballless wonders.
And they want the Children’s Commissioner to stop criticising them for their woeful performance for the poor. Writ large in their manifesto and Ardern’s utterances. I wish I had a hypocrisy off-switch when I do long distances in the country.
Medicinal cannabis within 100 days was the slogan, two years it took of running around. Now we have a GMP process stricter than anywhere else in the world. It costs about $26k to have a license to grow it and you have to have a million dollar facility approved by the MoH before you even get that license. The sick and disabled made it an issue because the products were too expensive and hard to obtain and right now they’re too expensive and hard to obtain. We had a referendum which is would have allowed us poor people a way to access the medicine by doing it ourselves but instead the govt let right wing religion to spread whatever misinformation they wanted to which saw the referendum fail but in less than 3 years we can now get raw bud in a pharma container with a label on it saying its a tea.
That tea works out to be just over $500 an ounce while the black market is $350.
Its a shame those who now grow their own are still seen as criminals.
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