UPDATE: Crypto-Fascists 1 New Zealand 0
We got trolled by two right wing Trolls and the very foundations of our liberal progressive democracy shuddered.
New Zealand Politics
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National’s Medicinal Cannabis Law the worst possible scenario for New Zealand
Trust the National Party to take all the fun out of cannabis – what’s their encore? Orgasm free masturbation?
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The Government’s medicinal cannabis bill is back before parliament, and we’re urging MPs to do what’s best for patients, not politics.
MPs need to work together now to fix the proposed legislation and give patients urgent protection. While they squabble patients are still getting busted, or dying without medicine.
The latest shenanigans over medicinal cannabis follow a Curia poll, released this week by the New Zealand Drug Foundation, which found increased support for all options, including 87 per cent support for allowing medicinal cannabis for chronic pain relief.
The message MPs should take from this poll is: Don’t panic, and do what is best for patients.
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Spinoff TV ratings meltdown – is it now the new Red Peak of Twitter?
As someone who has produced independent TV in this country, I look at the $700 000 that was pissed against the wall here and shake my head in disgust. I consider how we at Waatea Māori Radio managed to make a 5 night a week, 7pm Current Affairs show that led the agenda for 7 months for a mere $20k per month and then stare at this SpinOff TV abortion in horror.
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Who is most hopeless? The Minister of Health? Minister of Welfare or the Carbon Neutral Bill?
Cannabis reform, welfare culture reform and climate change – if this is the best Labour and the Greens can muster to central issues of the Left, they need to be replaced because this crap is window dressing, it isn’t leadership.
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Winston is right about tobacco
Rather than punish the user, go after the bloody industry. Consistently raising the price so the end user is forced to get more and more desperate to feed their addiction is not a solution. Create a vice tax that goes on the profit margin of the tobacco company. Put the pressure on the corporation to pay more of their profits rather than endlessly punish the end user.
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The real danger for NZ First over Wally Haumaha
Winston will hope this inquiry wraps up quickly before Simon realises the talkback gold he’s been gifted.
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Bashing beneficiaries and prisoners – Simon Bridges back on track with National
What was interesting about Bridges wasn’t him admitting our judicial system is corrupt or that there are no actual means to challenge cases that are fundamentally miscarriages of justice, oh no, Bridges honed in on the witch hunt element.
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For the sake of those they torture, could the Public Service please go on more strikes?
The new Government still haven’t managed to get control over the levers of power and it leaves the question open, is the new Government running this country or are right wing Wellington bureaucrats still running NZ?
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Sadly the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind still want organised crime to run cannabis industry
New Zealander’s are confusingly saying that they want to smoke cannabis, use it for medicine, but don’t want a regulated market that stops organised crime from dominating the industry and removes all the actual taxation revenue from Government coffers.