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Hard News: Cannabis reform is a serious…, in reply to Neil,
People bringing drugs onto those units is a very real problem.
Thats quite a specific problem. I dont think this legislation is intended to address this kind of thing. Harm reduction is something of a misnomer its very difficult to stop people doing something that is harmful to them, If you put a barrier up people will always find a way around it, especially if there are addiction and mental health issues. Coming back from that is a long difficult road, getting another fix just seems easier,and people being how we are, always prefer the easier route.
If there are people exploiting another’s situation for their financial benefit, legislation wont stop that, just look at the business world. If they see a profit in it for them they just see anything stopping that as interference and get very shitty about it. Or watch Mike Hoskings latest bleat. He proves yet again that the best fate we can hope for is extinction.
Ever tried to stop a junkie get their next fix? They will threaten, cajole, lie, cheat, steal anything to get that next fix. Kinda like Donald Trump on an average day.
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Hard News: Cannabis reform is a serious…, in reply to ,
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The doctor wont be a moment he's just outside pissing on his hedge ]]
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Hard News: Cannabis reform is a serious…, in reply to Neil,
pushing drugs at them for money.
If a person has an addiction they will usually seek it out themselves, and they will go to criminals if that is the only place to get it.
Pot dealers generally arent pushers, someone selling meth often is. But I dont know every drug dealer in the country so that is a generalization on my part.
Tho IMO corporations can turn into pushers as easily as a person. -
Hard News: Cannabis reform is a serious…, in reply to Neil,
psychotic symptoms and physical aggression.
Meth will do that to you, thats why it was used by troops during recent wars.
Marijuana can amplify paranoia, if you are that why inclined dont use it.
Tho it does take some self knowledge to know if you are that way inclined.
And it doesnt aid conversation probably where the caricature of the mumbling stoner comes from. -
Hard News: Cannabis reform is a serious…, in reply to Joe Boden,
refused to accept any data and evidence
This just blows the concept that there are two equal and opposing views in this debate to smithereens Yet these comfortably well off commentators on their media pulpits will continue to have printed their scaremongering, moralizing, fact free screeds.
All that happens is they end up sounding like their parents, the shell shocked post war generation who created a society their children the "hippie" generation didnt want any part of when young, but ended up sucked into it because it was so prevalent. And now we have to reject it all over again, because to keep it going will cause "the sky to fall", But that is another topic.
And we will have to endure more pointless debates, and the anti squad will benefit from more airtime, spewing their nonsense. I just hope because the opposing view is so utterly stupid, the pro campaign doesnt fracture along some imaginary line and render themselves ineffectual.
Ben touched on the enjoyment aspect, and thats a curly one cause it intersects that boundary between the personal good vs societal safety. In a society that is becoming ever more invasive in order to protect itself, individual benefit will suffer, when it should be being protected. And society needs some boundaries erected around it to stop encroachment into personal space.
And more research is needed into benefits, the downsides are well known if exaggerated .Such research was stopped 40 years ago as the postwar generation turned their children into criminals, and the work of people like Shulgin and McKenna was driven underground. Rick Strassman managed a research project on DMT used in ayahuasca ceremonies. The only study I know of. But there are some clever people out there like Dr Gabor Mate -
I notice there is often an everymans passive aggressive tone to your posts. Whats up bud? Your darkest fears getting the upper hand when you look out at the world?
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Hard News: Music: The Others Way, a…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
for the pleasure of a support gig!
yep support bands crews were expected to turn up at load in and out which was ok if the main act was worth sticking around for.Tho' by the 3rd night it just got to be a pain in the lower back and I could only tolerate roadie banter in small doses.
lovely chaps that they were ;-] -
the people in the music industry we often mistakenly think are indestructible
My roadieing days were 35-40 years ago now. But I still remember having to load a full single 4way system and lighting rig into the truck by myself cause the band that night just decided to fuck off.
Ever tried getting a full amp rack down stairs and into the back of a truck on your own?
I guess those aussies didnt like hard work, not to generalize or anything.
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Up Front: R.O.A.R., in reply to Neil,
And thus the madness in our midst is exposed dressed in the noisy chattering of ten millions voices in our consciousness.
When all we need to do is be quiet and clean up our mess. -
Up Front: R.O.A.R., in reply to Emma Hart,
. This Trumpian post-truth, lying has no consequences age
Its a shallow time alright, and old lies have been picked up by new faces and championed as a new truth/wisdom/ knowledge which makes it all the more galling 'cause you are left wondering... 'Havent we been over this many times before why is it being bought up and argued about AGAIN'
A canadian comes to mind in this respect, who I wont name( its a he) and has a lot of people in thrall to his brand of conscripting science.to his agenda.
It will come to an end, but its hell while it lasts.