[Sigh] How many (real) studies do we have to have before the anti-cannabis morons go away?
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[Sigh] How many (real) studies do we have to have before the anti-cannabis morons go away?
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When the head of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) criticises our drug policies, you know there’s a problem. AFP Commissioner, Mick Keelty recently made his views public about the unsuccessful strategies that have been pushed on us by ignorant and self serving governments. Read more »
DIARY: I was sitting in the car waiting for Angela a few days ago and noticed 2 suspicious looking men walk past me. I can spot these people a mile off ... clean, new looking runners, freshly washed KMart jeans, short hair, often bulky and looking healthy but unshaven. They have the look and manner of someone going somewhere but not sure where. Read more »
Ice shrinks the brain. Alcohol shrinks the brain. Cannabis shrinks the brain. Even veggies shrink the brain. You probably know that cannabis shrinks the brain because we hear it all the time but what happens when it is reported that a few drinks shrink the brain ... not much it seems.
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So man has been taking drugs since the stone age. Having progressed to an advanced stage of evolution and being all wise with so much history behind us, we decide using those drugs should be a crime ... and the world turns to shit. It seems to me that whilst humanity has achieved so much, we have learnt so little. Read more »
Many Australian anti-drug zealots want us to follow the lead from the US and Sweden on drug policy. Read more »
We are so lucky to have a moral conscience in this country. You know, those moral crusaders who want to be tough on drugs and damn the consequesnces . Who cares why people take drugs, it’s illegal and immoral and that’s what counts. Think of the children who will be given the wrong message if we go soft on drugs.
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The Legaliser
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DIARY: The more I research the more I start to notice how prevalent legal drug use is in the form of alcohol. It has all the characteristics of illicit drug use but somewhere we have accepted it as normal behaviour. You see drinking everywhere but probably don’t notice it as a form of drug use unless you actually look for it. Read more »
I was starting to feel optimistic about the future of drug treatment until I made the mistake of reading News.com. I knew as soon as I saw the trashy headline You pay for junkie drug rort that it was not going to be good and as expected, it wasn’t. Just another attempt to alienate drug addicts. Read more »
America has 1 in 36 citizens in jail, on parole or on probation. Although it spends more money than any other country on it’s "War on Drugs", it has the highest level of drug use in the world . The health system is arguably the worst in the western world and there is an explosion of drug deaths from the diversion of pharmaceuticals. Coincidentally, all these problems that effect everyday Americans are making more money for US corporations than ever before.
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Finally, the results are in from the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) enquiry into prescription heroin. Ironically though, it’s a bit of a fizzer. It just told us what has already been proven over and over again ... Read more »
One of the main problems with society is the political system. It was while I was watching an interview with John Howard many years ago that it struck me how politics had taken a new turn. Howard said in an interview that the most important issue in Australia was the liberal party winning the upcoming election and they needed to focus all their efforts on achieving that win. Although it’s probably true for most politicians, I had never publicly heard this before. Read more »
A cigarette price increase to fund smoking prevention programs sounds like a good idea.
. . . That is unless you're poor.
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The National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre (NCPIC) are really starting to gain a reputation as another bunch of quacks pushing their own brand of junk science onto the community. And The Australian is the perfect vehicle to publish their crap. Read more »
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