More states legalize Pot 8) when for Oz?

Nick's current affairs & general discussion about anything that's not sport.
Voice your opinion on stories of interest to all at Nick's.

Moderator: bbmods

Post Reply

When will it be legal here?

Within 2 years
3
19%
2-5 years
2
13%
6-10 years
1
6%
11-20 years
5
31%
It'll never happen
5
31%
 
Total votes: 16

K
Posts: 21445
Joined: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:23 pm
Has liked: 3 times
Been liked: 17 times

Post by K »

User avatar
Skids
Posts: 9904
Joined: Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:46 am
Location: ANZAC day 2019 with Dad.
Has liked: 26 times
Been liked: 30 times

Post by Skids »

Ok... you've drifted off topic on to ciggys and vapes.....

Please.... if these filthy things are; legal, taxed and sold freely, why shouldn't cannabis be?

Cigarettes, along with alcohol; kill more people, are responsible for more car accidents and the reason for more calls than ANY other reason (yes, alcohol mainly, tobacco only kills the user) to police.

Regulate it and tax it!
Don't count the days, make the days count.
User avatar
Mugwump
Posts: 8787
Joined: Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:17 pm
Location: Between London and Melbourne

Post by Mugwump »

Two more flags before I die!
User avatar
think positive
Posts: 40186
Joined: Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:33 pm
Location: somewhere
Has liked: 212 times
Been liked: 85 times

Post by think positive »

thats a bloody good point!!
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
User avatar
David
Posts: 50561
Joined: Sun Jul 27, 2003 4:04 pm
Location: the edge of the deep green sea
Has liked: 1 time
Been liked: 35 times

Post by David »

Last edited by David on Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
K
Posts: 21445
Joined: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:23 pm
Has liked: 3 times
Been liked: 17 times

Post by K »

User avatar
David
Posts: 50561
Joined: Sun Jul 27, 2003 4:04 pm
Location: the edge of the deep green sea
Has liked: 1 time
Been liked: 35 times

Post by David »

"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
User avatar
Mugwump
Posts: 8787
Joined: Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:17 pm
Location: Between London and Melbourne

Post by Mugwump »

Last edited by Mugwump on Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:21 am, edited 2 times in total.
Two more flags before I die!
User avatar
HAL
Posts: 45105
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 1:10 pm
Been liked: 3 times
Contact:

Post by HAL »

When? Yes I think about it that way things seem different often.
User avatar
think positive
Posts: 40186
Joined: Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:33 pm
Location: somewhere
Has liked: 212 times
Been liked: 85 times

Post by think positive »

You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
User avatar
Skids
Posts: 9904
Joined: Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:46 am
Location: ANZAC day 2019 with Dad.
Has liked: 26 times
Been liked: 30 times

Post by Skids »

Don't count the days, make the days count.
User avatar
Mugwump
Posts: 8787
Joined: Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:17 pm
Location: Between London and Melbourne

Post by Mugwump »

Two more flags before I die!
User avatar
HAL
Posts: 45105
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 1:10 pm
Been liked: 3 times
Contact:

Post by HAL »

How do you like That?
K
Posts: 21445
Joined: Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:23 pm
Has liked: 3 times
Been liked: 17 times

Post by K »

Is it legal in Oz even for medicinal purposes right now? I assume not. Would it not be better to permit medicinal use first? On the risk-benefit spectrum, this would seem more justifiable (at least when one does not delve into the arguments about how much laws affect actual behaviour).
User avatar
Mugwump
Posts: 8787
Joined: Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:17 pm
Location: Between London and Melbourne

Post by Mugwump »

The use of morphine under active medical supervision is legal now. There could not be any conceivable reason why ThC could not be.

However, this is really a ruse and strategy by the legalisers, who resort to any kind of insincerity to achieve their ruinous purpose. They do not envisage ThC being administered under controlled conditions in a hospital, but instead they want it available on prescription for a range of pain-killing applications, after which is can be used freely wherever and whenever the user likes. Doctors will usually prescribe what a patient asks for, as it is not in their interests to defy their patients. The medical cannabis thing is just a wedge strategy.

The question that really must be asked is why it is so important, to a group of people, that we as a society should license the loss of mind as a recreation ? There is one big giveaway here : note that when they talk about legalizing it, they always talk about "regulating" it too - they know it is intrinsically bad. Yet they want to make it more easily available. Can anyone think of any other case where there is a massive lobby to increase the availability of a product that people want to regulate in use !??

Their position makes no logical sense at a fundamental level, and this shows it. But people no longer know how to think. They have been told *what* to think by the educators and the rock stars and the comics and the advertisers, and it is far more self-satisfying to be licentiously cool with the crowd than it is to be a killjoy who thinks for himself.
Two more flags before I die!
Post Reply