scissorhands
22nd April 2010, 09:24
The Law Commission is receiving submissions, the misuse of drugs act is up for review. Submissions finish 30april.
Lawcom will also be looking at privacy laws changes and wants to hear from ordinary NZers.
Link here to Lawcom website: http://talklaw.co.nz/
Informational videos from their site and youtube below: volume is too low on my netbook, except when put thru some external speakers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBftlmQZjyo&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE88awaP2o8
Heres one of my many wacky stoner rant submissions:
Further to my previous submissions:
Alcohol and its historical abuse affecting cannabis users today.
Many ex alcoholics have quit only to become dependant on cannabis. The non toxic qualities of cannabis usually mean they can happily overdo it without the problems they incurred when overdoing alcohol. No more the hangovers, fights or health problems associated with alcoholism.
Also, many cannabis users had Dads (or mums) who were drinkers, declaring never to be like them (with alcohol) but invariably mirroring the parents behaviour, except this time with cannabis, food or other addictions and compulsions.
As the report will not look at alcohol or tobacco, at least some mention needs to be made of this 'gateway' situation toward illegal safer options, made by children of and ex alcoholics.
My father was an alcoholic and many of my pot buddies had drinkers for parents. This is a common situation from my observations.
Just as coffee and cigarettes consumption are encouraged at treatment centres throughout NZ, erroneously by my standards, the shift to cannabis use is also not without problems.
A friend who went through the bridge program for drinking, ended up needing stents in his heart 2 years after quitting drinking. He had become obese from eating too much and consuming coffee and cigarettes. His operations were a huge cost to the tax payer, AND HE CONTINUED TO SMOKE TOBACCO. Little or no movement forward from the cessation of alcohol, and in my opinion a step backward, especially for the tax payer and government....
If he had become a stoner instead, the overall effects of cannabis use would have incurred a benign result to his health and the tax payer.
Obviously transference to another substance is not ideal, but still beneficial in practical terms to the patient, state and community.
The same benefits can be argued for youth becoming stoners rather than entering drinking culture, as they emulate their parents addiction patterns.
In addition, oral addiction manifesting as obesity is also very costly to the state, and a cannabis addiction is not. Again, rather than getting fat like mum and dad, an addiction to cannabis is healthier and less costly to all concerned.
In summation: The non toxic affects of cannabis should make its choice a no brainer to government, and it should promote this openly, so that those that need to remove themselves from society via substance use, can choose a substance that is effective, natural and safe.
Fin:Police::Police:
Lawcom will also be looking at privacy laws changes and wants to hear from ordinary NZers.
Link here to Lawcom website: http://talklaw.co.nz/
Informational videos from their site and youtube below: volume is too low on my netbook, except when put thru some external speakers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBftlmQZjyo&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE88awaP2o8
Heres one of my many wacky stoner rant submissions:
Further to my previous submissions:
Alcohol and its historical abuse affecting cannabis users today.
Many ex alcoholics have quit only to become dependant on cannabis. The non toxic qualities of cannabis usually mean they can happily overdo it without the problems they incurred when overdoing alcohol. No more the hangovers, fights or health problems associated with alcoholism.
Also, many cannabis users had Dads (or mums) who were drinkers, declaring never to be like them (with alcohol) but invariably mirroring the parents behaviour, except this time with cannabis, food or other addictions and compulsions.
As the report will not look at alcohol or tobacco, at least some mention needs to be made of this 'gateway' situation toward illegal safer options, made by children of and ex alcoholics.
My father was an alcoholic and many of my pot buddies had drinkers for parents. This is a common situation from my observations.
Just as coffee and cigarettes consumption are encouraged at treatment centres throughout NZ, erroneously by my standards, the shift to cannabis use is also not without problems.
A friend who went through the bridge program for drinking, ended up needing stents in his heart 2 years after quitting drinking. He had become obese from eating too much and consuming coffee and cigarettes. His operations were a huge cost to the tax payer, AND HE CONTINUED TO SMOKE TOBACCO. Little or no movement forward from the cessation of alcohol, and in my opinion a step backward, especially for the tax payer and government....
If he had become a stoner instead, the overall effects of cannabis use would have incurred a benign result to his health and the tax payer.
Obviously transference to another substance is not ideal, but still beneficial in practical terms to the patient, state and community.
The same benefits can be argued for youth becoming stoners rather than entering drinking culture, as they emulate their parents addiction patterns.
In addition, oral addiction manifesting as obesity is also very costly to the state, and a cannabis addiction is not. Again, rather than getting fat like mum and dad, an addiction to cannabis is healthier and less costly to all concerned.
In summation: The non toxic affects of cannabis should make its choice a no brainer to government, and it should promote this openly, so that those that need to remove themselves from society via substance use, can choose a substance that is effective, natural and safe.
Fin:Police::Police: