Posts by Ross Bell
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Yay! The War On Drugs.
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I see they're using wine to keep the creative juices flowing, rather than other, more traditional, forms of music-making ingredients.
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Lloyd Burr on Newshub website makes the same error as herald/listener in his review of political parties. Aren't there rules about journalists getting basic facts/history correct?
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Hard News: One big day at the drug symposium, in reply to Russell Brown,
Dunne has a response to NZ Herald and Listener:
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Jane Clifton wrote some terribly ill-informed and incoherent Listener editorials on the PSA… I suspect she’s the author of that one.
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Thanks for fact checking the Herald and Listener editorials. I simply didn’t have the energy. The Listener one was just offensive when it claimed the foundation downplays or ignores drug harm.
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Loving Melodrama "Broadcast the boom boom boom boom and make 'em all dance to it."
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And one other thing Anderton did, which has been lost to time (And the PSA) is amend the Misuse of Drugs Act to add a 4th category for drug classification: the "Restricted Substances" aka "class D's category which allowed for regulated sales ... sadly Parliament ended up putting BZP into Class C not Restricted Substances category thus outlawing it and precipitating the avalanche of new psychoactive substances. Those were the days.
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Hard News: Drugs and why Dunne did it, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Dunno about that - Dunne started musing about this back in 2013, and has developed his views over the past few years - his most recent thoughts were canvassed at a Police conference at the start of May, followed up with a blog post. The recent media was prompted by comments he made to Stuff for the Global Drug Survey - those interviews were conducted a couple of weeks ago... well before publication.
But anyway, good on Dunne, The Opportunities Party, the Greens, and Maori Party (plus Act too) who have all made positive noises recently.
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Hard News: Drugs and why Dunne did it, in reply to BenWilson,
Agree. Which is why Dunne is saying Portugal (Decrim + health), plus legal regulation of "lower harm" drugs like weed.