Don Brash: "We should decriminalise marijuana"

[puddytat]

Saw him on Q&A today & was stunned to hear him voicing the idea of decriminalisation of Marajuana....
About as stunned as I was when I heard that the Pope deemed it O.K to wear a rubber on yer willie if you were a male Homosexual prostitute.....
Cant see that helping his cause.
And Boscowan is going to Quit too....politics that is.
Maybe he's hoping to get some leverage with the Whanau
Or is he trying to be "Hip"?

[SS90]

A clear case of vote buying, if ever I have seen it.

Shameless.

[Brian d marge]

would prefer the home grown to that eviel shit called kronic, i dont smoke , but the friends that do , seriously worry about the man made shit

male an 1/8 legal , coffe is the most abused , or so I heard

Stephen ....(( Hic )

[Road kill]

Vote buying,,,good luck on that one

[Bender]

Brash is a dickhead. He always was at the reserve bank, kept homeowners on their knees with interest rate rises (remember 23% anyone?) and was a racist bastard when he was head of the parliamentary national party.

People like Brash are old school and we don't need them any more.

[short-circuit]

Saw him on Q&A today & was stunned to hear him voicing the idea of decriminalisation of Marajuana....
About as stunned as I was when I heard that the Pope deemed it O.K to wear a rubber on yer willie if you were a male Homosexual prostitute.....
Cant see that helping his cause.
And Boscowan is going to Quit too....politics that is.
Maybe he's hoping to get some leverage with the Whanau
Or is he trying to be "Hip"?

Totally agree with legalizing and creating a seriously regulated health-based approach to drugs

....however I agree that this is an attempt at vote buying, is completely left field for Act (excuse the pun). They must be fucking desperate

[YellowDog]

It's been done elsewhere and has lead to many more users than before.

It's certainly a better option than legalising P.

Some I know smoke the stuff for recreational purposes with no ill effects at all, whilst others have become schizophrenic dope heads and then moved on to harder stuff (like P).


Perhaps Mr Brash has a large crop of his own that he wants to sell OR it could just be a new tax revenue stream to replace those lost smokers

[marty]

On Brash's logic, all crime that does not have an immediately identifiable victim (eg just about every driving offence, many Summary Offences, multiple Crimes Act, etc) costs $$millions to police, so we should therefore decriminalise all of those?

He's an idiot.

[Flip]

The man is a fool.

So are Act supporters.

At least Rodney could dance for his supper.

[The Everlasting]

What an idiot,he is clearly trying to buy votes,I have never liked that man. He will say or do anything to get people to vote for him,then after they have voted for him,he conveniently forgets the things he has promised.

[Indiana_Jones]

I'm inclined to say keep it illegal.

Got enough issues with people abusing booze.

If you need to smoke pot or drink that much as an 'escape' you need to look at your life and take up a hobby perhaps.......one that isn't going plants indoors lol

As for the vote grabbing comments, well duh.

I don't recall too many students complaining when aunty helen was offering a sweet election bribe....

-Indy

[oldrider]

It's been in Libertaranz policy for years, how come it's claimed to be policy property of the "left" leaning?

[Scuba_Steve]

I think we should legalise it tax da shit outta it like we do with fags & booze & makes some moneys off it it's gonna be used regardless so might as well make the cash moneys & focus our cops onto more serious matters like P & child abuse

[Latte]

My initial reaction was that he'll lose more votes than he gains by being a proponent for decriminalising.

Personally I'm against it, I see it as more detrimental / less beneficial to decrim it, than it's current illegal status.

[mashman]

It's been done elsewhere and has lead to many more users than before.

Ohhhhhhhh really? (that's just one article on the subject)... Praps some of you one-eyed mutha fuckas need to revisit your archaic stance on drugs etc... ... yer as bad as the politicians who use it as a vote winning football. Drug use has and will always exist irrespective of it's legality... I'd suggest, as do the results of REAL research, that you start treating it more socially.

More recent studies are showing that use at an early age can lead to problems in later life, but that was based on rats. There are shitloads of studies around, some suggest that "drugs" (could be booze) are just triggers for pre-existing conditions.

But I agree that Brash is probably political footballing