Green Party vs Cannabis laws

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Are these people wasting their time? I dont think that it will be decriminlised in the near future as the generations before our own are extremly anti drugs. However there is a gradient I feel, e.g. my grandmother is a lot more anti than my mother, and I am not anti at all provided people are not negativily effecting their own lives or the lives of others. Surely this shows, at least my family, that people have a more open view towards these things. So maybe by the time I am 50 people in general will have a more open minded view?

i can but hope!

considering the health effects is not enough. we also need to consider the societal effects of putting all these 'criminals' in jail, and then consider whether those effects are worth reducing the negative health effects by locking people up

EDUCATION's the answer; not CRIMINALITY.

Maybe at 50 everyone on here will be anti dope too.

nah

If the decrimlisation reform is to go ahead the green party will also have to negotiate its way around the anit-smoking and tobacco groups, who will cry foul.

With all the money spent of advertising and education for anti smoking, I can't see the current governmant supporting the legalisation of any smoking substance, since that is what they are trying to stamp out.

Gotta agree with you here bedtime. In another thread ("Smoking In Bars") I alluded to this train of thought...

One of the big arguments used by those opposed to even just the medicinal use of ganja is the health risk of smoking (how the fuck they think this outways the benefit of pain relief is beyond me; obviously they're not the ones suffering). The chance of total decrimilisation in the current climate is not very conducive unfortunately IMO...

Reality is in New Zealand's current commercial environment you are able to purchase "LOW THC" hemp quite legally, and to then roll it into a cannabis cigarette, spark it up and inhale. In fact one can do this legally and become "stoned."

Threfore what is the point of having the cannabis drug law? In the words of somebody smarter than I:

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." Albert Einstein "My First Impression of the U.S.A.", 1921

starboy: i think you'll find that the quanity you would have to smoke would be sooooo rediculous that you'd die before you got stoned on that shit...

but still, i can smoke pot quite happily at the moment, the law is not stopping me.... it's just making me a criminal.

FUCK THA LAW!!

HAHA = yeh, thre's still the SMOKE and CANCER issues, but you'd be surprised.

My conclusion was that THC is not the only active component of cannabis, ie the low thc hemp was agreed to be reasonably psychoactive.

I just checked and found that it has all been seized under search warrant, and we'll have to wait 'til Nandor takes Customs to court to find out what is going to happen next. If they rule that it is illegal then the whole hemp industry will fall over.

REMEMBER LAST TIME: Jenny Shipley was PM and asked for this report on cannabis and everybody voted to decriminalise, and the CIA called her up to USA and told her how it was, and she came back and said that bugger democracy, they were going to toe the line with Uncle Sam OR ELSE?

Here's hoping we are a free country again...