Canvassing for Opinion - aka "Blairs Brain on Cannabis"

Pissing into the Wind, Drug testing Bene's

The targeting of selected groups, jobseekers in particular, with arbitrary fishing expeditions for guilty urine is a breach of common law. Parliament, in particular the Minister's of the Crown responsible for this are without moral authority. The mere fact that this drug use prevention procedure is perceived as required at all is an indictment on the policy base that pretends it is a solution. Rather it [rampant prohibition] enables the worst in people, those who would justify the ends meeting the needs, particularly the prejudiced, the naïve and the woefully ignorant - be they politicians, public or TM message board contributors... the testing of bene's heralds a new low in civics. We should all be ashamed.

Blair Anderson http://mildgreens.blogspot.com

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Upset at ban from Maori TV

Maori TV have sold themselves and the demograph they serve short.

see http://www.times-age.co.nz/news/upset-at-ban-from-maori-tv/1908777/

Producers of Maori TV's flagship current affairs programme told Mr Appleby, 66, that he could not take part in the debate as he did not have Maori credibility in the electorate.

Drug Policy is vexatious for the hidden agenda's and gatekeepers who would rather pretend they hold some 'high moral ground' - media having become both experts in myopia and pawns in the game of lies. There is no doubt that racism can be sheeted home to what the drug war on people has at its roots, its origins, right into the present and future. But to pretend is only about racism is to do the argument, against prohibition and all that that represents, an injustice too. It is ageist and sexist as well. It is about oppression, and control, state intrusion and surveillance, destabilisation and division, it is about misplaced resources and lost opportunities, it is about labelling and othering, and its about oppression of the individual and the group. It denies truth and science, evidence and experience. That is a terrible legacy to uphold. Maori TV's affairs program have sold themselves and the demograph they serve short. The hustings do not belong to gatekeepers. It is an election of all voices..... Unfettered canvassing (a cannabis word) is what empowers the elected. All ideas must be tested. Maori TV have to redeem themselves or they become irrelevant in a much bigger picture. Amongst the fourth estate they are not alone.

Blair Anderson
http://mildgreens.blogspot.com

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Cannabis - Brain Food? or Neurotoxin? Ask a Policeman!

“The brain’s cannabinoid system is fully capable of not only cleansing damaged brain cells from the brain, but also triggering the production of new brain cells within the brain, a concept that contradicts years of conventional thinking about how the brain works.”

The report continues with evidence of how: “Cannabinoids also supercharge mitochondria in the brain, which are the powerhouses of energy that maintain proper cell function.”

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

CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor

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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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