Posts by william blake
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Hard News: From Zero: The Meth Episode, in reply to andin,
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Hard News: #eqnz: Okay?, in reply to Farmer Green,
From generation zero to generation backup.
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http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/126265-research-shows-fault-has-issue.html
After a short sharp geology lesson at night school last month with rock god Bruce Hayward we were made aware of the Firth of Thames fault. The class questioned why the complacency in Auckland about a big quake here. It simply comes down to the Civil Defence advice coming from volcanologists and not seismologists.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LF3bMYbo3Gk
A friend was at the LA zendo with Cohen, he showed us a wee film they made and it became clear that the singer was there to kick a heroin habit, that and his taste for cigarettes makes it all the more remarkable that he made it to 82.
My first memory of his music was the classic album we all know but I got it into my head that he was married to Francois Hardy, not a bad match but not so. I have only recently found out that John Campbell isn't married to Carol Hirshfeld either.
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Up Front: I Never Been ta Borstal, in reply to Kevin McCready,
Attempting a bad joke? No it's hegemonic masculinity that is the bad joke.
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Hey Steven, look after yourself beating those swords into ploughshares, it is brutal, hard work and takes its toll. I've switched to watercolour painting it's a bit girly but it doesn't hurt the body so much. Good luck with mosaic.
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Up Front: Our House, in reply to Emma Hart,
Sadly, I got the madness. X best.
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Hard News: Housing NZ keeps digging the…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
"and are quietly pleased at the prospect of a moral panic demonising HNZ tenants."
This dovetails with the P.M. expressing his reckon that the high immigration level is down to the casualised workforce being too stoned to work. There is a very ugly picture being drawn here of an outwardly moral and compliant society that has access to work, food and shelter and an impoverished underclass that is left to fend for itself.
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Hard News: Medical cannabis: a polling experiment, in reply to Russell Brown,
Thanks Russell I will get on the Google and check with my GP.
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This all seems quite confused, ‘legalising medical marijuana’ contains several internal contradictions. And as for the wrinkles growing their own analgesics..we’ll get off the grass!
I would be very interested if pharmacists came up with a reliable, cannabis based, nerve analgesic without the side effects of the crap that is currently prescribed. I was taking amytriptiline for a year until the side effects became too much. The GP then suggested I try epilepsy medication as an alternative, fuck that. I would certainly try a cannabis derivative for neuralgia but just hitting the bong isn’t good for my head or my lungs. It would have the same long term side effects as the currently available options I would rather live with the pain.
So polling people on their opinion on a cannabis based medical analgesic is in no way the same as asking if the people can grow sticky buds to skin up their own medicine. Bit like legalising morphine manufacture from your own poppies, doable but not recommended.
