Kronic banned

[cold comfort]

Don't have a problem with this (even though prohibition never really works) however the hypocrisy is outstanding. Kronic banned "because we don't know the long term effects". Well we know the long term effects of alcohol but instead of following the Law Commissions recommendation of raising prices and reducing availability all we have is lip service from Government. The liquor industry tail wagging the dog again.

[Blackshear]

Don't have a problem with this (even though prohibition never really works) however the hypocrisy is outstanding. Kronic banned "because we don't know the long term effects". Well we know the long term effects of alcohol but instead of following the Law Commissions recommendation of raising prices and reducing availability all we have is lip service from Government. The liquor industry tail wagging the dog gain.

How else is our community going to become healthier if we don't allow gambling and alcohol trusts that give some of their government-earned money back, through wasting it away?

I personally don't give two shits about that fake weed, the real stuff is even easier to buy. Prohibition indeed.

[mashman]

booze sales musta really been hit.

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Won't be long before someone invents a new legal drug and the cycle will repeat yet again, should just legalise the real shit.

[Parlane]

Won't be long before someone invents a new legal drug and the cycle will repeat yet again, should just legalise the real shit.

I think the proposed law basically says that these types of things are automatically banned upon introduction.

[jazfender]

Hopefully now Peter Dunne will shut the fuck up and go back to whatever it is he is in parliament for.

I can't wait for the next media beat-up. I heard fanta's pretty serious...makes your tongue orange.

[Parlane]

Hopefully now Peter Dunne will shut the fuck up and go back to whatever it is he is in parliament for.

I can't wait for the next media beat-up. I heard fanta's pretty serious...makes your tongue orange.

Won't someone please think of the carpet cleaner manufactures and resellers?!

[jazfender]

Just last week, there was a can of Fanta found in a fatal accident...investigators suspect the drink has been a factor in a number of gruesome road deaths.

[Parlane]

Just last week, there was a can of Fanta found in a fatal accident...investigators suspect the drink has been a factor in a number of gruesome road deaths.

Don't forget tooth fatalities

[Hitcher]

I think the proposed law basically says that these types of things are automatically banned upon introduction.

As they should be. Products like Kronic are about making a dollar out of a legal loophole. One day New Zealand will have proper legislation about dietary supplements and other non-medicinal products so that people who buy them know what's in them. There's no such thing as a "safe" product, including water.

Informed consumer choice should be a principle that underpins all commercial transactions.

I am constantly amazed by people who go to inordinate lengths to avoid MSG and gluten (the numbers of people actually affected by either of these is very low as a percentage of the total population) yet who are more than happy to ingest products that some illiterate, innumerate bogan has whipped up in a basement garage from products that their bogan mates have acquired from motorcycle gangs who have lovingly imported these from China, sight unseen.

[Parlane]

As they should be. Products like Kronic are about making a dollar out of a legal loophole. One day New Zealand will have proper legislation about dietary supplements and other non-medicinal products so that people who buy them know what's in them. There's no such thing as a "safe" product, including water.

Informed consumer choice should be a principle that underpins all commercial transactions.

I am constantly amazed by people who go to inordinate lengths to avoid MSG and gluten (the numbers of people actually affected by either of these is very low as a percentage of the total population) yet who are more than happy to ingest products that some illiterate, innumerate bogan has whipped up in a basement garage from products that their bogan mates have acquired from motorcycle gangs who have lovingly imported these from China, sight unseen.

I love MSG..

[Hitcher]

I love MSG..

It does no harm to most people. It's a naturally occuring product. Indeed there is scant science to suggest that it does any harm to anybody at all. Psychological prejudice is another matter entirely.

Regretably uninformed consumer pressure has forced a lot of Chinese food outlets, wrongly singled out for having a penchant for using this product, to put up signs saying "No MSG used" or similar sentiments, reinforcing the misbelief that MSG is harmful.

[The Lone Rider]

As they should be. Products like Kronic are about making a dollar out of a legal loophole. One day New Zealand will have proper legislation about dietary supplements and other non-medicinal products so that people who buy them know what's in them. There's no such thing as a "safe" product, including water.

Informed consumer choice should be a principle that underpins all commercial transactions.

I am constantly amazed by people who go to inordinate lengths to avoid MSG and gluten (the numbers of people actually affected by either of these is very low as a percentage of the total population) yet who are more than happy to ingest products that some illiterate, innumerate bogan has whipped up in a basement garage from products that their bogan mates have acquired from motorcycle gangs who have lovingly imported these from China, sight unseen.

+1

I'd love to see some regulation on homeopathic and natural medicine. At the moment, it's just "slap a label on it, say it does something, and make your money".

I love all these people who buy "natural" stuff, yet they are little cartons of processed and milled pills, liquids, and powders.

Eat your damn vegetables, wear a flipping condom, and stay away from highly contagious people!

[jazfender]

What about slapping a warning sticker on products and letting us choose whether we want to buy them or not?

[Banditbandit]

I think the proposed law basically says that these types of things are automatically banned upon introduction.

So - nutmeg is next on the list then? Mix a packet with milk and swallow - a mild high ...