Posts by Craig Young
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Hard News: Digital persuasion and the…, in reply to andin,
I keep hoping that they'll piss off someone in what's left of Anonymous so they can retaliate and inflict some strategic hacktivist damage on the buggers...
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Why can’t Leighton Smith just retire for good, the silly pompous old fart? I cheered when he finally retired from Newstalk but then NZME pulled a fast one on us and he got appointed a Herald columnist.
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MDMA's just asking to be reclassified. It can be handled safely with proper harm minimisation and risk reduction.
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Reminds me, what's the status of therapeutic MDMA as an option for treatment of trauma? I seem to recall clinical trials on the subject. If it yielded positive results, I think therapuetic MDMA is the next destigmatisation cause for drug policy activists.
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The sound below is Family First tieing itself in knots over its stance on medicinal cannabis: https://www.familyfirst.org.nz/2019/04/modern-medical-marijuana-is-more-potent-dangerous-than-ever-before/
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In the case of the alt-right, surely 4chan and 8chan are more relevant media outlets insofar as toxic social media networking goes? Why aren't people discussing those?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
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Prohibitionist propaganda alert: With the assistance of David Farrar's Curia Market Research firm, Family First has just released a somewhat suspect opinion poll. eighty five percent say cannabis can be neurotoxic for young smokers (which is why there's an age of consent provision in the proposed legislation), eighty one percent think stoned driving under the influence of pot can cause accidents (how many demonstrable cases are on file from the NZTA? "Think?"). sixty three percent are concerned regular pot users aren't employable (so what about local infrastructure and employment training options? What about local rates of alcohol consumption?) forty nine percent think cannabis use will increase if decriminalised ("Think?" What does the data actually say?!) ...thirty percent *disagree* with the proposition that tobacco companies want cannabis prohibition weakened, thirty five percent think useage will *remain the same* in the event of decriminalisation and twenty percent think there will be no effect on employment prospects. And only seven percent want the law to stay the way it is!!!: The sample measured 1000 respondents, and was sampled in April 2019: https://www.familyfirst.org.nz/2019/04/shock-cannabis-poll-yes-to-medicinal-no-to-legalising/
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Will the legislation in question be a conscience vote (subject to referendum approval)? Because I can see some libertarian Nats voting for reform and some Labour social conservatives voting against it.
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There are some quite intelligent questions here, as one would expect.-
-I do take Graham's overall point about legislation under urgency being rushed and shoddy usually. However, the problem is the parliamentary messenger in this context. One would have to say that David Seymour facilitated several such National Party legislative shortfalls as National's coalition partners himself. Which doesn't invalidate Graham's overall point, but...
-Is the current proposed Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines and Parts) Bill 2019 based on the post- Port Arthur Australian counterpart? What were the shortfalls of that legislation?
- Could refinements in 3D printer technology lead to functional firearms eventually, so should they therefore be regulated more stringently against that contingency?
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Legal Beagle: Why the censor's total ban…, in reply to Sacha,
Scholarly analysis?