Posts by Stephen Judd
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... responsible drug use, usually meaning "How people who have been using their drug for decades eventually come to use it".
I like this angle so much I may steal it and pretend it's mine.
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I am afraid there is no need to psychoanalyse the (nonexistent) huuuuuge emotional hooooole in my soouuuuul, or whatever.
Hmmm. Maybe my inner wowser just needs a drink.
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How would they know?
Nah, this is looking at alcohol consumption after Prohibition. Apparently it didn't get back to pre-Prohibition levels until the 1970s.
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Sometimes, people might just want to have bigger fun.
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Or might genuinely want to expand their mind.Sure. I'm not opposed. I love expanding my mind.
But I think the attitude of getting wasted, the sort of thing that caused Palmer to wring his hands in the small hours of the morning, is not generally motivated by the pursuit of self-knowledge and enlightenment. And I think we do have a particular problem in NZ, and I'd like to know why.
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why is it we drink to get drunk, smoke to get wasted, etc
I honestly would love to see a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Roots of Desire For Oblivion.
This is a question I've been waiting to hear asked in the news media as the debate over the alcohol licensing laws continues, but we only seem to be interested in proximate causes, not root ones.
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it'd be quite nice if all candidates were willing to be voluntarily drug tested,
I am reminded yet again of the farsightedness of Iceland's Best Party, whose policies include a drug-free Parliament by 2020.
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Obama (and Bush for that matter) were essentially in the youthful experimentation phase. I don't know if that's comparable to a man in his 40s deciding P is the best way to relieve stress and taking it to the point where it "was becoming an issue." Being supercity mayor is unlikely to be low-stress.
Although I do think Prast has a point about the hypocrisy of alcohol users and legalisation, we could argue that Williams has been under the same spotlight for alcohol abuse.
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Hang on, this would be the same Lucia who some years ago was advancing the theory that homosexuality led to Nazi atrocities. Her views on any subject should be viewed with bemused pity to the extent that they engage your attention at all. I can't remember what led me to "NZ Conservative" back in 2007 where I found that post but I hope never to go back there again.
I don't know what the correct name for the poisonous, conspiracy-prone reactionary crap they peddle over there is but it's a disgrace to the word "conservative."
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Right. Referendum on introducing legislation to provide for ostracism, anyone?
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I feel that describing Laws, Coddington, George and Woodham as "intellectuals" is possibly a wee bit generous.