Posts by Shane Le Brun
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Hard News: Media Take: Heavy topics, in reply to Deborah,
Maybe Tony Veitch's column was always inteded to be reverse psychology from the editorial team? So bad its good in starting the conversation, just like Gareth Morgans offer on the beach a few months back, get peoples tongues wagging.
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watching with anticipation.
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This reminds me of the debate on "Mild" TBI soldiers were diagnosed with, did some googling, and its not just for sports folk.
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/news_and_events/news_articles/CTE_found_in_veterans.htm
Being too close to explosions, such as designated door breacher, or just generally being danger close to explosions on multiple occasions will lead to the same thing, fortunately our soldiers haven't been in the line of fire too much for this to be an issue here, apart from the folk who allege they were on the receiving end of their own Bushmaster Cannons at Baghak....
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I'm biased as I'm very pro the topic of MC, but having never watched Maori TV before, I am a convert, your dead right on it being worthy of a much earlier time slot.
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All this talk of getting raw cannabis out of the states,(it cant be done, kids in Colorado cant even leave the state, let alone travel international) when we have 2 Canadian citizens lined up to test this....... stay tuned.....
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Agreed diazepam is more risky, but we do have social/medical/political biases to accomodate also. Generally speaking Gps are comfortable dishing out class c stuff anyway. My next quest after MC will be topical ketamine, that stuff is great for nerve pain!
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Hard News: Helen Kelly's letter, in reply to Russell Brown,
Although the fight here is for more products, ( a universal fight really ) the classification and hoops to jump through just doesn't match its level of risk or harm.
I would propose splitting MC products based on THC:CBD ratio.
high THC, as in, anything more potent than 2:1 THC:CBD stays as a class B med, as it has recreational potential, anything between 2:1 and 1:4 goes to class C, as a low risk med next to codeine, diazpeam, and anything lower in THC can be unscheduled as such, perhaps restricted to a specialist only medicine, so the high CBD stuff is recognized as having no abuse potential at all.Those ratios are just ballpark numbers, but it would stratify MC products into medium, low, and no diversion potential, which seems to be an obsession of some folk, Meanwhile, chronic pain folk sit at home on occasion with thousands of milligrams of various Class B Opiates....
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Hard News: Helen Kelly's letter, in reply to Russell Brown,
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Hard News: Helen Kelly's letter, in reply to Alfie,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21542664 a study on Sativex abuse potential
the best bit "Tolerance has not occurred, abrupt withdrawal has not resulted in a formal withdrawal syndrome, and no cases of abuse or diversion have been reported to date."
Sativex really ought to be cut down a peg from Class B1 to something Class C, Codeine is far more dangerous and open to abuse......
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Hard News: Helen Kelly's letter, in reply to Russell Brown,
"I’ve said before I think this is how any campaign has to go: to make the issue a political liability for the government. If Curia says that’s the case, things will change."
Ive pondered hiring curia once the MCANZ charity is off the ground to survey this issue, use Nationals Pollster to strike some motivation into them on the issue, got quotes early last year, prices are fairly reasonable.