Yay the middle classes can get stoned! Labour’s solution is a $75 joint???
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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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.
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.
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…
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.
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.