Posts by nz native
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Well there must be something up with christchurch people because I believe an emergency ward doctor in Wellington stated it was extremely rare to have admissions for Bzp, rather its all about the booze if there was a drug involved in an admission .
I wonder what percentage of Dr Gee’s admissions were for Bzp ………… 1% ?, or less ?.
…………………… and speaking of bzp whatever happened to those two girls in Auckland who required medical treatment recently in a supposed bzp overdose/reaction?.
The police were very quick to claim bzp is dangerous and this ( two girls needing a ambulance ) is why it was banned. That was not the first time they had pushed for it to be banned in our media on the basis of a dodgy scenario ……………………
We’ve never heard of any blood tests/results from these girls but I’d bet that they took gbh/fantasy.
Anyway theres a lot of ignorance and dishonesty when it comes to trying to have a rational discussion on drugs in our society
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If this story and brian eastons estimate on the true harm of alcohol are anywhere near accurate then we can really begin appreciate what a snow job the nz police and jim anderton are pulling .............
"The current focus on problems caused by alcohol in New Zealand occurs in a context which most New Zealanders are unaware of. Over 1,000 people in New Zealand die directly from alcohol related causes each year – because of car accidents, drownings, liver cirrhosis and approximately 60 other health problems caused by drinking. This statistic does not even begin to reflect the reduced quality of life which thousands of others experience because of excessive drinking.
Economist, Brian Easton says the cost of damage caused by alcohol in New Zealand is $16 billion a year rather than the $4 billion cited by ALAC and frequently misquoted by other sources. He even says New Zealand’s population would be 30,000 higher than it is if it weren’t for premature deaths caused by drinking.
International mortality figures are equally disturbing. In the United States, government estimates say alcohol is responsible for 100,000 deaths a year. In the European Union, alcohol is estimated to kill 200,000 people a year - that’s 540 people a day.
Alcohol related death occurs in virtually every country in the world, a situation which in many respects resembles a pandemic. Pandemics are classified by the World Health Organisation on a scale of severity from 1 to 5 – where a category 1 kills less than 0.1 of those who contract the condition and a category 5 kills at least 2%.
Using the 785,000 New Zealanders who binge drink regularly as ‘those with the condition’, the annual death rate from alcohol consumption in New Zealand makes it a category 1 pandemic.
The worst pandemic in New Zealand history was the influenza epidemic of 1918 which killed an estimated 8,200 Kiwis. That was nearly 100 years ago. Excessive alcohol consumption is akin to a category 1 pandemic that hits us every year - not once every hundred years.
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Roger Brooking is the Clinical Manager at ADAC Ltd that specialises in Alcohol & Drug Assessments & Counselling." -
Well I could have 100 hits on a vaporizer and get less tar and crap than from a cigarette ................... but vaporizers are illegal .......... in the name of ' harm minimization'.
................ as for young people being unable to score pot.Maybe the tinny shop might offer them some P instead.
I'm sure thats happened but who knows the numbers who have had P because of this.
Also the police probably did not want the drug alcohol included in this ' harm index' crap study that they are pimping around the place.
............ because they sell that drug at private police drug taking dens at some police stations..................... they get their stuff cheap too, the govt shouts them the den.
They're called police bars
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I lost faith and respect for the police over 25 years ago when the police would sometimes find me on the street after another explosion of alcohol fueled domestic violence in my families home ……………………….. but in those days apparently ‘it was ok ‘ to beat your missus and family and the police kept firmly out of it.
Reading the media accounts of what happened and contributed to the shooting death of Mr Singh I am further disgusted with the actions ( or lack of ) from those who pretend to ‘serve and protect ‘.
As I understand the facts Mr Singhs family was pleading for the emergency services to help the dieing man, they repeatedly said the offenders had left.
Other customers entered and left the shop.
EVENTUALY the police allowed the emergency services and themselves to enter the shop ( what finally decided for them that there was zero risk ? ).
Now maybe my memory is faulty but can anyone else recall in NZ a case where liquor or small store robbers waited after the robbery to have a shoot out with police ?
Or any instance where a robber in NZ has held a gun to the head of one of their victims and made the victim pretend the robber had left so they could shoot/murder a police officer ?? .
Because it seems to me that the police are protecting themselves ( and endangering or in this instance helping in the death of a civilian ) from a risk which has about a 1 in 1000 probability or smaller of happening .
I can understand and live with the knowledge our court system supposedly works on the principle that it is better for a 100 guilty men to go free than for an innocent man to be imprisoned.
………….. and I think I’m getting an understanding that our police have a system where it is better for 100 civilians to die than for a policeman to cop it ………………………
As for the politicians jumping on the bandwagon with their chest thumping, non-solutions and rhetoric.That’s all it is and the natianals will be hard at it.
Keys little outburst yesterday in the house seems to show that they want to chant on about P and this distraction about Alcohol or P iss as I like to call it is a bit inconvenient for them.
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Relateing Back to Russells original blog, I D.A.R.E anyone to think of a anti-drug organization started up by an ex-copper.
The only thing ‘proven’ about Sabins ideas and proposals is that they always fail …………………..” harm elimination “= “ just say no” …….. anyone else feel a touch of Hello Nancy? .
I’d also like to say good on Paula L for being secretary of Norml and working to end the arrests and prosecutions of ADULT cannabis users. There would have to be something wrong with a person not to support such a stance.
I’ve always believed that scratch a ( cannabis ) prohibitionist and you’ll find an arsehole.
But that’s the thing about these misinformed jerks, they don’t mind it being normal for police to kick in peoples doors, conduct random searches and shit all over the people they are supposed to be ‘serving and protecting’ rights.
These prohibitionist also seem to be unaware ( or don’t care ) that NZ has been number one in the world for arresting its citizens on cannabis charges.
I think there’s a lot of people out there like myself who have anger towards our police and justice system because of this.
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would I be correct in my guess that all those who dont see what all the fuss is about ( in regards to air Nz) are the same people who supported the original bogus invasion of Iraq??? .
........ as for Iraq being a 'friend' of ours, does anyone seriously view it as a real functioning country?.
are we friends with war zones now?
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yes well I'm glad I dont live in either of those two countrys.
It seems their govts are shedding and shredding human rights and freedoms at a rate not seen since the last world war.
........... if you dont mind I'll just keep skipping my census
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I suppose because of my political beliefs ( Labor are bad and rotten while the nats are just plain evil ) that I am naturally inclined to disbelieve and distrust anything from the government or people who are attracted to power ( politicians ).
If you also have one of my other beliefs that most problems the govt is claiming to try and fix usually get worse then their use of census information to plan and alleviate future problems will probably end up being an expensive mess.
Compulsion to fill in a census seems to me like a marker on the road to compulsion to carry identity papers etc.
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.......... The census.
If you dont want to fill one out its quite simple.
You tell the person dropping of the forms an incorrect (lower) number of people who reside at the dwelling than is true.
In the last 20+ years I've filled out 2 census and there was some good fiction in those.
....... and I only filled out those 2 because it wasn't me who answered the door when the bloody things were delivered.
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The police are always making strange claims which when mixed in with un-referenced statistics, slanted storys and general media hype gives us the next moral issue/threat that we should all be wringing our hands about.
The police and the media are a bit like the blind leading the stupid.
Drink driving attitudes have changed enormously in a generation and although there will always be a hardcore group of idiots who keep at it drivers and particularly young ones can be proud over how much less drink driving goes on nowadays compared to our quite recent past.
I get quite tired of reading or hearing police spokes people spouting utter bullshit in the papers and on the radio, most of it I would classify as fear mongering and it all seems to lead in one direction .......... more
More police ................more powers