I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
Everyone owns their own body. As far as I'm concerned, if I choose to drink, smoke, eat KFC, snort coke and stick a syringe full of heroin between my toes then so long as I'm not harming anyone else (I don't fight or drive under the influence) and not forcing anyone else to pay for me (I get out their bed in the morning and go to work) then why the hell is it anyone else's business, never mind illegal?
You know what they say, everything in moderation.
Teach Kiwi's about moderation and being responsible for their actions regardless of whatever "influence" THEY CHOSE to be under and you'd have a lot less social problems in this country.
Originally Posted by Kickha
Originally Posted by Akzle
Because unfortunately these activities project negative externalities onto other members of society whether you like it or not. You personally may keep it a part of only your life, but many many thousands of people clearly cannot and it rips their lives apart as well as innocent bystanders. You barely have to keep in touch with the news to see the effects of people on drugs.
Nail your colours to the mast that all may look upon them and know who you are.
It takes a big man to cry...and an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
Better in what way huh? My granny was a apothecary who administered cannabis to the sick. I dont remember booze on the shelf, though it has great medicinal value too, hence monks brewing grog. And in other parts of the world, religions using weed, all sorts of ethnobotanicals.
And to be totally correctcannabis tincture was the #1 medicine for hundys of years.
The probs in NZ with weed are the same culteral probs with booze, and junk food.
Media, taxation and oligarchy is the tail that wags your dog, and Pavlov really knows how to make you drool, doesn't he?
Good boy for defending your masters, now go chase a stick
Churches are monuments to self importance
Over a relatively long life lived through periods where booze and drug fads have come and gone I cannot count the number of 'opinions' I've held or more to the point the number of sermons I've sat through on the rights and wrongs of both and how legalising this n that would make everything good...
All said and done NOT ONE of the people who I've personally known who has defined their life with a substance or liquid has ever amounted to anything. I've watched them all fall by the way, crash bikes, wreck marriages and couse hurt and harm all around.
If having the occasional drink (and I do mean occasional) is the only legal way to alter reality it is surely more than enough.
If you have the energy - go solve the worlds REAL problems and stop inventing new ones.
Have not had weed since Friday night. The last 3 weeks, I wait till after 9pm if I do
But I suppose that sort of thing is unbelievable to you, huh?
All stoners are obnoxious, useless people, huh?
Who's the real anti social here, ruining NZ?
I suppose you believe in an Arian ideal and that gays are sick? Who's attitude is causing the most harm? Why cant you accept others have different ways? You actively make worse for those unfortunates at the bottom of the ladder. Talk about unfair oppression
The problems you see are not authentic to cannabis, booze or junk food...
Guns dont kill people, people kill people.
Trying to help the unfortunate people by taking away cannabis will do nothing for them. They will just turn to state sponsored, more harmful legal substances that are toxic and more damaging to their bodies and society.
The cost to the state for diabetes, heart disease and such, would increase if cannabis was removed from NZ culture
Then you can whine about their booze and junk food addictions ruining our country.
Oral addictions are rampant in NZ, and you ignorant knee jerk statements do little to improve the lot of the neurodiverse and the downtrodden.
Have a heart
Churches are monuments to self importance
There, fixed that for you. Alcohol is a legal poison, that taken in moderation can be quite enjoyable. However, when consumed in larger quantities it can cause a number of changes in human behaviour, mostly with a negative result on society. Examples include instances of drunk driving, physical assaults, sexual assaults, theft, damage to property - all issues NZ faces on a daily basis generated from alcohol. Prolonged excessive consumption can lead to obesity, liver failure, mental issues and other ill-effects.
You can argue that drugs are bad for society all day long, and I'd mostly agree with you, but don't for one minute think alcohol isn't one of those drugs.
You're including alcohol in there too I assume?Originally Posted by Brett
He's gonna put some inOriginally Posted by Banditbandit
? heh, the guy outlined the problem on TV the other night. Because these drugs are synthetic, the manufacturer can change 1 component and the whole stop this stop that falls apart... they should just bite the bullet and legalise Cannabis... t'would help solve a whole raft of problems in one hit (pun intentded)... at least they can test for THC (not easily granted... but we didn't always have breathalisers)
Got the energy, just need the $$$Originally Posted by Paul in NZ
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I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
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