Hard News: From Zero: New Zealand and drugs
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And while on the subject of RNZ podcasts there is also the series Black Sheep playing on Monday afternoons.
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I can't seem to see it on iTunes?
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Stephen R, in reply to
on iTunes and Spotify and broadcast every Monday after the 10pm news on RNZ Nights.
Not released yet...
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Nick Melchior, in reply to
Doh!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Not released yet...
Well, it is, but it just hasn't got to the third-party platforms yet. Note that there's a podcast subscription link at the top right of the RNZ page.
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Looking forward to this. I bet there are some great stories.
Complete tangent but it was astonishing and delightful to fall over an old (1940s or 50s) thesaurus of american slang and find in the (by far the best) underworld section a big range of drug slang dating back decades.
The history of drugs is far too interesting to remain untold. -
Russell Brown, in reply to
a big range of drug slang dating back decades.
Argot of the Dope Addict, Auckland Star, 1938.
Note:
Bernice or burnese – Crystallised cocaine for inhaling
Or in other words, crack.
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from 1924*:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19240919.2.57plus a drugs and race crossover:
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/race-killing-lionel-terry-murders-joe-kum-yung-in-haining-st-wellington*An acquaintance recently discovered a complete run of the first Sunday Times Feature newspaper from Chch (1958-59) which reported Opium still being seized at Lyttelton - The National Library has bought this run and I look forward to it being digitised on Papers Past.
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Rob Stowell, in reply to
from 1924*:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19240919.2.57</q>Hard to read of the demonization of Chinese in NZ by virtue of their association with opium and not feel the burning hypocrisy. First Opium War
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Fairfax hosting here.
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We need to bring back "smeck" as a term.
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linger, in reply to
Were the users called smeckheads ? Red Dwarf fans need to know.
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Second verse of Minnie the Moocher
She messed around with a bloke named Smokey
She loved him though was cokey
He took her down to Chinatown
And he showed her how to kick the gong aroundI'd always got the "cokey" reference, but had thought "kick the gong" was a euphemism for raising hell.
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Who put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine? (1944)
Cocaine Habit Blues (1930)
Weed Smoker’s Dream (1930s)
Reefer Man (1932)
Let’s Go Get Stoned
That Cat is High
When I Get Low, I Get High
(isn’t that what Michelle Obama said?)
:- )and finally Drugs and Dental Health
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It feels an odd time to mention it with the looming trumpocalypse and all, but seeing more US states vote to legalise marijuana for medical and personal use, and looking at the polling here, the timing might be good to get a citizen's initiated 'reeferendum' on the ballot next year.
National will probably pooh pooh it. Labour might too - but that could cost them dearly with the option to vote Green on the table. It would bring the issue into the forefront, where politicians don't want it - and that also might have a good effect. Whadda ya reckon? -
Farmer Green, in reply to
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Farmer Green, in reply to
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I’d always got the “cokey” reference, but had thought “kick the gong” was a euphemism for raising hell.
Oi!
You and Ian! No spoilers for Episode 3!
;-)
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nzlemming, in reply to
You and Ian! No spoilers for Episode 3!
Oops ;-)
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