Canvassing for Opinion - aka "Blairs Brain on Cannabis"

Brain-imaging study links cannabinoid receptors to post-traumatic stress disorder cure

CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor

Dunne and Media, Naive in the Extreme.

An arrangement of psychoactive drugs (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So the media pretends to have some mandate over the argument reiterating and rehashing endless stories of woe as if repeating them over and over makes recreational psychoactive drug use more dangerous.

What's dangerous is, naivety. Of users (and moralisers) for not asking, nay demanding these substances be governed under existing legislation

Dunne is pretending he is the drug master, having the 'killer blow' yet if all these stories of woe are sheeted home they lie at the feet of Dunne himself for failing to place these emerging drug threats under Jim Anderton's world class drug regulations adopted into law the very day John Key became right and honorable.

So media, tell that story.... Ask Peter Dunne how does his drug amendments comply with the National Drug Policy of 1998, the one that developed from 'best practice' and commended an ALL DRUG approach rather than his (Dunne's) drug by drug approach.

Peter Dunne is advocating a wolf in sheep's clothing. Clearly contentious, drug policy is a debate ill-served by media pretending it holds the cards. It stops it asking the right questions.

Why abandon regulations that no one in FIVE years has been able to find fault with?

Blair Anderson
http://mildgreens.blogspot.com

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The hidden dangers of legal highs

The hidden dangers of legal highs | Society | The Guardian

The dangers are not hidden, they are exposed, and exposed better when regulated. / Blair

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Time to End the War on Drugs

English: Colin Powell visiting Colombia in support of Plan Colombia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Time to End the War on Drugs

An exquisite and timely call made on our ANZAC day by a fellow MildGreen and Nam Vet, Clifford Wallace Thornton Jr.

Blair Anderson
http://mildgreens.blogspot.com

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$3M of Cannabis, $4M of Drug Harm?

Cannabis on the West Coast has flourished despite the drought-like conditions.
The region's annual police cannabis bust was due to finish today with about 3000 plants found from Karamea to Franz Josef by this morning.
Operation head Sergeant Russell Glue, of Hokitika, said today he was surprised the illegal crop was in such good condition considering the dry weather that had gripped the region.
''I would say they probably have had to water the plants though.''
About 15 to 20 officers were involved in the six-day aerial eradication operation, along with 12 New Zealand Air Force personnel and an Iroquois helicopter.
Glue said the number of plants found was about 700 fewer than last year.

marihuana plantation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

''Over the last eight or nine years, it has been trending down. We would like to think it's because of brilliant policing.'' (ROFL)
However, he said the West Coast was still one of the country's key cannabis growing areas.
Most of the plants were found hidden in bush in rural areas.
Two people had been arrested and a third had been summonsed to appear in court. All faced cannabis cultivation and other drug-related charges.
Glue said removing cannabis from society was important because of the illegal drug's negative impacts.
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ALCP Making History.

A bit of political history collated in these contemporaneous times.

http://www.alcp.org.nz/vote2014/node/36#new

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Dunne: Psychoactive Substances Bill a ‘game-changer’

English: Peter Dunne (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Press Release: New Zealand Government

Hon Peter Dunne
Associate Minister of Health

26 February 2013

Dunne: Psychoactive Substances Bill a'game-changer'

The Psychoactive Substances Bill introduced to Parliament today will
mean legal highs have to be proved safe before they can be sold,
Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has announced.

"The Bill will be a complete game-changer in terms of party pills and
other legal highs," Mr Dunne said.

(Mr Dunne needs to read (and discuss) the explanatory note in the
"Restricted Substanes Regulations" he inherited )

/Blair Anderson
Social Ecologist 'at large'