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  • Islander,

    WOW!
    (Creeps back to rather nice Oz merlot..)

    (Tho"'it's splendid to note that Sarah Palin wont probably even be getting back Nome...)

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Knowledge Bro,

    "Sarah Oh Sarah__Sad Eyed Lady Of The SnowLands"
    And tonight at the Palindrome...
    Were gonna harassarah
    Take it away BoB...

    Madam, I'm Adam
    Too hot to hoot
    No lemons no melon
    Too bad I hid a boot
    Lisa Bonet ate no basil
    Warsaw was raw
    Was it a car or a cat I saw?

    Dylan nalyD it

    Regards to Alfred Matthew

    Behind the fridge • Since Mar 2009 • 58 posts Report Reply

  • Robyn Gallagher,

    Re medicinal marijuana.

    I've just had an awful cold. I went to the doctor and among my complaints I mentioned I had a bad cough. He prescribed me a suitable bad-ass cough syrup that has morphine in it. Yeah, morphine. Not enough to go to a special place, but enough to go to a quite nice place nonetheless.

    So why is it that a really hardcore opiate is readily available in various prescriptible forms but the less harmful marijuana is still an illicit drug.

    Oh, that's right. Parliament is scared its mums might be watching.

    Since Nov 2006 • 1946 posts Report Reply

  • Rebecca Williams,

    And if there had been a bit of work on drafting a half useful bill then a lot more of us would have voted for it. I don't know whether it was laziness or a lack of judgement on Metiria's part but frankly the bill presneted to parliament looked like it had been drafted by someone who had been high for weeks.

    this was partly my point - if a bit of homework had gone into it, it would have been worth a look. anyone suggesting that cannabis should be prescribed for mental health problems doesn't deserve their bill looked at. maybe it will get to select committee when it's worth looking at.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2007 • 120 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    So why is it that a really hardcore opiate is readily available in various prescriptible forms but the less harmful marijuana is still an illicit drug.

    because 11% of nzers have or do smoke pot. Another reeferendum needed? I must stop reading the Daz. The interesting thing about opiates is prescription for methodone (I know, synthetic it may be)is the equivalent of what many countries find acceptable and let's face it all t'other opiates in this country are, well, bloody good (homebake debateable, depending on the cook) and confirmed precise measurable doses. I think marijuana is a visually feel good drug so that isn't desirable to a conservative voter, afterall the goss of the 60's 70's 80's 90's is it is not productive, i.e lazy. Opiates can be used and one wouldn't know they are stoned (which they are)and if sick, any after effect can be just end of the being sick so not actually addictive (to an untrained eye). We all like to feel good, that's entertainment, therefore personal choice, (should not be tax payer funded), unwell or unproductive,(they can have a drip etc for that) that's why, maybe, dac isn't allowed yet. Decriminalise at least, free up the prisons, self medicate, sorted. I'll go awaaay now ;)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Jose Barbosa,

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 64 posts Report Reply

  • George Darroch,

    Thanks Jose, that was a thoughtful and interesting read.

    WLG • Since Nov 2006 • 2264 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    So, did you hold your nose and scull the bottle in one go?

    Nice :)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • James Green,

    So, did you hold your nose and scull the bottle in one go?

    From memory it's still less than one morphine sulphate tablet.
    Opiates are randomly brilliant anti-tussives. They have an effect in the central nervous system that suppresses the cough reflex, rather than soothing the throat. Another advantage of Gee's Linctus (the morphine cough preparation) is that it is sweetened with honey, and it tastes delicious.

    Limerick, Ireland • Since Nov 2006 • 703 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel,

    Bondi Beach Bromides...

    Another advantage of Gee's Linctus (the morphine cough preparation) is that it is sweetened with honey, and it tastes delicious.

    An abiding memory from Toy Love's Australian sojourn -
    Setting up in The Astra Hotel, above the beach at Bondi, (I think it might be an old people's home now) ... laying out cable, and behind all the cigarette machines, jukeboxes and amusement devices along one wall it was ankle deep in empty cough medicine bottles, Gee's , Phensedyl and others, mostly still in their chemist's brown paper bags... Not much coughing in the audience though!

    Ferro Moans from the Olfactory Wall...
    To add to something raised earlier - possibly in another thread - about carpet in pubs - I have another hardwired memory - that silent yet noisome emission from excited photons hitting Nicotine & C2 H5 OH (alcohol) soaked floorcoverings - even thinking about it still triggers a serious peristaltic gag response - up there with the malodorous emanations from those jars full of water and alcohol and cigarette butts that pubs thought were a great idea... my amygdala* shudders...

    yrs in a funk
    Dr Ty Oldtown
    Hack Halt Hawker

    *A Markedly Almond shaped Soft Cell structure
    - the gray nasal basal : )

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    An abiding memory from Toy Love's Australian sojourn -
    Setting up in The Astra Hotel,

    .
    Of course that was my local. (but no gees linctus for us)That it is now, an old peoples home. We used to joke that the same people are back there, just a tad older. What a great place that was.You'd get Divynals on a Monday, The Church on a Tuesday, SplitEnz on a Wednesday, a lot oof ska bands..... we'd show up and get a concert for free every night of the week and it was always a mix of oz and kiwi. Shit that was a good pub.I will say I remember Toy love playing just not detail as it always was. :)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    Oh I forgot (how tardy) The opiates tend to be a bit of a cure for the common cold, flu etc. One only gets flu like or a cold when one stops using them, so I deduce if you stay on it you'll never catch a cold.

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Julie Fairey,

    Sorry for the belatedness, thanks Russell et al for teh kind words and the linky :-)

    Puketapapa Mt Roskill, AK… • Since Dec 2007 • 234 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    Yer, but you might find your self

    Like totally editing man, when you find yourself you can go look for other things. Still, keep warm, don't want to catch a cold.;)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Stewart,

    those jars full of water and alcohol and cigarette butts that pubs thought were a great idea

    I killed off any disposition to becoming a regular smoker by trying (admittedly drunkenly) to drink one of those suckers. It was a saturday morning, we were having a hair-of-the-dog in the Bowling Green (as was) and for the price of another jug I stupidly accepted the challenge.

    Managed to get about 3/4 of it down before having to make a hurried exit to the loos whereupon I heaved it up, and a whole lot more besides. A couple of hours later I was in bed, bucket beside me (though in truth I was empty by then) and I was crook the whole day. Hadn't realised what poison I was ingesting, but my body knew well enough to get rid of it, pronto.

    Couldn't go near an ashtray for years afterwards and have never been tempted to develop the cigarette habit as a result. A harsh learning curve, but effective.

    Te Ika A Maui - Whakatane… • Since Oct 2008 • 577 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    You might find yourself...

    Ahh, but that's the prize. You hit the Jackpot! :)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Emma Hart,

    I killed off any disposition to becoming a regular smoker by trying (admittedly drunkenly) to drink one of those suckers.

    Stewart, tell me you used to live in Chch and your name is actually Steve, because I'd hate to think there were two people who'd done this.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    I killed off any disposition to becoming a regular smoker by trying (admittedly drunkenly) to drink one of those suckers.

    Not the time to tell you about the friend who uses that shit as a (semi-) organic weedkiller?

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Kyle Matthews,

    It was a saturday morning, we were having a hair-of-the-dog in the Bowling Green (as was) and for the price of another jug I stupidly accepted the challenge.

    Wow. You're really cheap.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report Reply

  • Stewart,

    @Emma - no, there's more than one idiot in our fair land and I am not Steve from Chch.

    @Craig - glad I wasn't too weedy. Although it might just be a matter of time before the bodily decline can be traced back to that incident.

    @Kyle - it was a different place & time and we were different people then. I was a student, I was still pissed from the night before, I was brashly confident that my system would cope. (But you're right, I am cheap, but not that cheap these days.)

    For the record, I managed to smoke about half a packet of unfiltered Gauloises while off my head on Psilocybe semilanceata about 10 years after this incident and they were really nice. But I am a non-tobacco sort of guy these days.

    Te Ika A Maui - Whakatane… • Since Oct 2008 • 577 posts Report Reply

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