The real problem with our Cannabis laws that no Politician or Party is actually addressing
Lot of talk, lot of blah, blah on the cannabis referendum…
Drug reform impact lost in politicians’ war of words
A war of words is raging over the war on drugs, as the Health Select Committee reports back on the most significant piece of drug reform legislation in 40 years.
The parties are divided over a single, but significant, clause in the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill, which enshrines police discretion over prosecution, and prioritises therapeutic options when dealing with possession and personal use of controlled drugs.
…you know what I have yet to hear from the bloody politicians in the cannabis debate?
An apology.
An apology that acknowledges the detrimental madness that cannabis prohibition unleashed upon NZ, the way it has crucified Māori & Pacific Island communities by throwing them into prison or deporting them back to the Islands.
The way it needlessly locks up so many brothers and sisters, the way it allows the bloody pigs to invade our lives and our privacy and our rights.
The way the Politicians green lighted synthetic cannabis (because the real stuff was illegal), only to stumble on implementing actual regulation and then banning all synthetics and driving it underground where it continues to kill and kill and kill.
I want a fucking apology from these politicians, these gutless cowards who have implemented deeply flawed social policy and even now do everything in their power to hold onto the lie of cannabis prohibition.
How dare any of them pretend the current abortion of a law is working.
The politicians were wrong on cannabis all along and watching them bicker amongst themselves while refusing to admit they were wrong sickens me.
When the referendum comes out, even though it’s non-binding and barely what was promised, cast that vote so you can stick it up these clowns with a resounding victory that echoes down the corrupt corridors of power for an age.
And there latest great idea is? Make all the poor who drive old cars subsidize The Rich to buy new Hybrids, Lol ridiculousness, this is a one term wonder government and they know it.
This is the Death of Neo-Lib Tard politics
Sucked in by fake news corrupt polys unwilling to show how easily they were bought. Now they have to pretend they care while allowing a toxic carcinogen to be marketed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ebz9OuYLL0
What no one points out in the current referendum debate is that is so one-sided. Anyone who publicly argues for legalisation of what is presently an illegal substance immediately puts a bullseye on their back for the police and their employer.
It is the medical profession and their BIG Pharma ( cartel) and their vested interests you should be ranting about
….Peter Dunne said as much ie the Ministry of Health and doctors representative organisations and advisory boards have opposed people using legalised homegrown cannabis for their ailments even although it has been grown and used as a medicine for thousands of years
(and people used it legally in the 1920s …it could be got from the local chemist as a herbal remedy)
….people should call the medical profession out for what they are …how many people have they killed through prescribed opioids?
….now pathetically the medical profession say they will allow medicinal cannabis if it comes only through a doctor specialist prescription…( more hoops and more money for the medical profession…more pain for the people).
Lets face it …it is a greedy bastard power and control cartel with no ethics that profits from peoples pain and other ailments , especially the elderly
https://saynopetodope.org.nz/2019/05/09/medical-association-opposes-cannabis-legalisation/
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/83570824/princes-death-drug-prescribed-to-new-zealands-elderly
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714014919/nearly-60-docs-other-medical-workers-face-charges-in-federal-opioid-sting
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/27/universities-sackler-family-purdue-pharma-oxycontin-opioids
Politicians ( our democratically elected representatives) need to ask whether NZ hospitals get kickbacks for prescribing opioids?
…also how many deaths in NZ hospitals can be put down directly to overdosing by drugs opioid?
( an Independent Commission of Inquiry needs to conduct audited review and research ….and it needs to be backdated to include the jonkey Nact years )
….how many NZers have died who would never been in hospital in the first place if home grown cannabis was legalised
This is a repeat of the CGT syndrome. So many conservative and highly vocal boomers mainly, giving angst re pot smokers syndrome they know nothing about. Pollies running scared….again. Dumb kiwis think they know it all, don’t rock the boat!
‘New Medical Cannabis Research From Israel: Older Adults, Dementia And Dialysis’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/abbierosner/2019/03/04/new-medical-cannabis-research-from-israel-older-adults-dementia-and-dialysis/#386ecc113660
http://www.timesofisrael.com/cannabis-may-help-relieve-autism-symptoms-israeli-study-shows/
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/283486/raphael-mechoulam-israel-cannabis
http://www.forbes.com/sites/julieweed/2019/02/03/tested-with-20000-patients-israeli-medical-cannabis-comes-to-the-united-states/#1e7a2b4b6d7e
+100 Thanks for that Bruce…that is brilliant!
‘The REAL Reason Cannabis Was Prohibited!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ebz9OuYLL0
The violation of Mother Earth and the earths peoples by a USA cartel of corporations with vested interests in petrochemical, artificial synthetic drugs and plastics …who utilised a secret government plot using outright lies to destroy cannabis production first in USA and then world wide …using racism, sexism and puritanical ageism against youth
Here is another link:
‘How Hemp Threatens the Corporatocracy | Brainwash Update’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE1sUwY_q0k