Posts by mark taslov
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Farmer Green,
I’m glad to hear you’re managing. Groupthink being one of the more dangerous and pervasive threats to humanity, I can appreciate and respect the course of action you are choosing. Obviously being labelled a troll comes with the territory.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Farmer Green,
Despite the endless barrage of gender assumption things are going ok FG, how are you?
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Neil,
Well it’s not altogether surprising that when we cut the population in half and divisively socialise each half in different ways – primarily according to their genitals – that some people then perpetuate and aggravate this division.
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Judge McDonald said there was no evidence of commercial dealing, such as text messages on her phone, but Parliament had set the upper limit for personal use at 28g. Van Gaalen had 24 times that and knew it was against the law.
These numbers are given more context when compared with the case of Rebecca Reider legally bringing cannabis into the country.
she travelled through Customs at Auckland Airport on Friday with an ounce of medicinal cannabis that had been prescribed to her during a visit to Hawaii.
So can see that our legal threshold before cultivation/possession is deemed to be for supply…
Northland Crown prosecutor Mike Smith was surprised at the charge, saying while it was not his office that prosecuted Moodie, the law made it clear that anybody found to have more than 28g of cannabis was presumed to have it for supply.
…is equal to what a Hawaiian Doctor might prescribe for one month’s use – that’s just the raw cannabis.
New Zealand law allows anyone who is prescribed a medicine overseas to bring one month’s supply into the country for their own use – including cannabis products.
So Van Gellen was in possession of the equivalent of 2 years worth of monthly prescriptions, split that with a smoking partner and that’s about even.
As an agricultural country, it is expected that there may be some among our legislature who are aware what is meant by the term ’annual crop’. Following a summer of endless pruning, an outdoor cannabis grower may stockpile their annual 28g harvest (equiv: 2.3g p/month) for personal use without great concern about being prosecuted for supply. Obviously this is insufficient for many and quite unrealistic but it is basically free.
Indoor growing, reliant on precious electrical energy enables growers to manipulate this annual cycle. Even still, the possibility of growing with the added complication of maintaining a stockpile/ flowering plant weight of 28g or less at all times requires creditable skill – placing the onus on growers to destroy stockpiled harvest in order to remain below that threshold. Users are not encouraged to grow cannabis themselves, the fairly obvious interpretation is that it is preferable to lawmakers that most cannabis users should purchase less than 28g of cannabis at any one time by feeding NZD into the black market to those prepared to face greater criminal liability for greater financial reward.
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Hard News: The Long, Strange Trip, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Without doubt a fascinating game of RISK®. The unlikely event that The US military industrial complex acquiesces to Trump gifting Russia its Polish missile sites, the miracle that is NATO making it to St Petersburg. Then the itchy trigger finger of that recklessly impulsive rogue Vladimir Putin, the prevailing emotion will be one of nostalgia for those left behind, combined with a spirit of bold curiosity for the adventure ahead.
And the French! Mon Dieu.
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Hard News: The Long, Strange Trip, in reply to Bart Janssen,
What the Chinese have said is that because people behave that way they’ll reject democracy as an option
Most Chinese people don't ever get a sniff at democracy, it's not on the cards, George W. Bush was similarly ridiculed. Working to hundred year plans this stuff must be a blip. The Party will use the opportunity to rally and maintain public confidence amid economic downturn and hopefully continue to improve the standards of living for millions in its domestic population in order to reach the goal outlined in the first hundred year plan of eliminating extreme poverty by 2020.
And of course the threat to the Taiwan, because The People's Republic of China's threat to The Republic of China always gets the media spotlight during every global event.
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Hard News: The Long, Strange Trip, in reply to ,
Thanks for some perspective there Steven, you’d have hoped that Hillary Clinton would be as aware of this kind of thing as anyone.
In other news Kim Jong Un. -
Hard News: Stop acting like the law is…, in reply to Sacha,
So would these come under the ASA or the BSA?
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Hard News: Stop acting like the law is…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
But this is Little’s view, and it seems an honestly held one, and so we know what we have to do convince him of to change his mind
I agree Tom, as I see it, any legislation that might impact how confident patients might feel about openly discussing all aspects of our health with a GP is a compounded health issue.