Posts by Russell Brown
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Speaker: Cannabis: make it legal but…, in reply to Dennis Frank,
That said, I agree with Nic that keeping big business out of it is preferable. Restricting sales to individuals and co-operatives seems to me a good option. However, there’s the problem of potency specification and the reliability thereof. As long as we have a large portion of the population with mental health problems, we need safety and surety in our medication.
Same. That's why I'm for regulated commercial production and some no-profit solution at retail. One of the bonuses of regulated production in the US is that weed is now screened for mould and pesticides, both of which are bad things to be inhaling. We don't have that here.
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Hard News: WOTY: The Kindness Scandal, in reply to Carol Stewart,
I loved your chat with Guyon this morning Russell. Don’t ever stop!
Cheers. It's actually also fun just sitting on the control room couch and seeing and hearing how the sausage is made :-)
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Hard News: WOTY: The Kindness Scandal, in reply to Neil,
I thought what I did was a gently humorous way of dealing with the bombardment I got last night, but it clearly wasn’t received that way. Sigh. Got that one wrong.
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Hard News: WOTY: The Kindness Scandal, in reply to Thomas Beagle,
By switching it out you've taken one of the sides... and I think you've taken the wrong one.
I've changed it back.
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I'm not sure this conversation is going anywhere useful wrt to the original post. I'll close it for the time being, thanks everyone.
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Righto folks, thanks very much that's the conclusion of the discussion stage. Voting starts tomorrow!
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The Science Media Centre has expert reactions from Dr Paul Quigley, Dr Fiona Hutton and Professor Doug Sellman.
They are extremely positive reactions.
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Hard News: Just quietly, this is a big deal, in reply to Kazam,
Yes I know it’s still technically illegal…. but the change is clear and faster than I thought it could be.
Hmmm, steady on there. Cultivation isn't part of this, and even as they've sharply reduced the number of possession prosecutions in the past 10 years, the police have continued to bust growers.
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Hard News: Just quietly, this is a big deal, in reply to linger,
OTOH, “police discretion” tends to be unevenly applied in practice, so this should be seen only as a stopgap measure.
Yes. But it's a pretty big step.
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Hard News: Just quietly, this is a big deal, in reply to BenWilson,
This is fantastic news. If you had told me 2 days ago it was coming I would not have believed it.
I was fairly gobsmacked when the Minister of Health called this morning to give me a heads-up.