Don Brash: "We should decriminalise marijuana"

[oldrider]

If he'd launched this from the platform of Finance Spokesperson for the Greens it'd be a winner. He just nuked ACT and his credibility. John Banks will be the leader of ACT before the election hoardings go up.

True, his sense of timing and his persona etc just don't do it for the average voter!

But for your last comment ....

What an horrific thought, Banks is a worse political opportunist than Winston Peters!

[MisterD]

2. No way the rest of the ACT party will go along with decriminalisation so he'll have to drop it.

John Banks is the one that's out of step with the principles of ACT, and the only stupid thing here is his membership of the party, he should F-off and join that Colin Craig.


Disclaimer - John Banks is the biggest obstacle to me party-voting ACT as I've done in the last three elections.

[imdying]

Yeah alcohol use is a sick joke in this country, but the weed is just something else for the piss weak to use as a crutch,and the vultures to make a profit from.

Fucking save us from shared delusions

So on the abuse list we have alcohol, pot, gambling, fast food. Only one of those is illegal though. You're allowed to be a money grabbing pissed fat cunt, but don't you dare be a stoned money grabbing pissed fat cunt

[scissorhands]

Didnt he make the famous retards list?

nuf said

[jazfender]

Engineer Julian Vincent Budd, 51, died from multiple injuries just before 11am on September 1 last year when he failed to react in time to the tractor in front of him on a straight at the top of Big Jim's Hill near Waitara on State Highway 3, Coroner Tim Scott said.

"I find Mr Budd had sufficient time to see the tractor and then brake and avoid the crash and that his slow reaction time can reasonably be considered to be due to the fact that he was riding his motorbike while under the influence of cannabis."

Mr Budd, HA. That's gold.

[Dodgy_Matt]

Mr Budd, HA. That's gold.

Better than that its Mr J Budd

[scissorhands]

Many of my surfing buddies surf well on weed. What about motocross dudes like The Crusty Demons. Snowboarders, sky divers, mixed martial artists....they love the stuff...

It aint alcohol........

[sidecar bob]

Many of my surfing buddies surf well on weed. What about motocross dudes like The Crusty Demons. Snowboarders, sky divers, mixed martial artists....they love the stuff...

It aint alcohol........

In my early twenties I was a fairly big time pot head & I could also set up & pedal a race bike fairly well, probably for the same reasons this group use it.
I found it affected other parts of my life paticularly negatively & I see those negative things being played out in other heavy pot users lives today.
Every pot head can point out the same old cliches & flawed reasearch that justifies their habit, but for me, its based on expierence & I will never go back there again.

[carver]

legalize that shit, we going to protect everyone from themselves?

[Mad-V2]

Well thats it then cannabis is so dangerous that it makes you crash.... thats how many cannabis related crashes compared to alcohol?
He may have got a bug in his eye, he might have had a sneezing fit, he could have been avoiding a bunny/puppy/kitten/baby.
Maybe Mr Tractor was covering his own arse about his right turn, he may have had mud covered lenses on his trailer indicators and cleaned it off after realising Mr Bud had died, only Mr Tractor and Mr Bud would know that answer.
If I ate a poppy seed loaf and crashed, the coroner would find Opium in my system and say "Yep...this man was high on Opium, It's Opiums fault he crashed"
If Mr Bud was my father, I would be calling bullshit. Being stoned does not make you crash into tractors that you can see from 160m away, especially only one joint two hours before hand

But thats just my opinion, What would I know really

[sidecar bob]

If pot apparently mellows people out, why are the most highly strung, angry posters on here kind of admitting to being users?
I see nothing to suggest that the users of said product are mellow, & a lot are plain vicious & irrational.

[puddytat]

Dude, you can apply that logic to any user of anything....we all row the boat that we like the look of most,& you will always get people being passionate about what they believe in.

[Mad-V2]

Dude, you can apply that logic to any user of anything....

Including KiwiBiker

[Scuba_Steve]

Including KiwiBiker

you can't apply logic to KB...

[mashman]

If pot apparently mellows people out, why are the most highly strung, angry posters on here kind of admitting to being users?
I see nothing to suggest that the users of said product are mellow, & a lot are plain vicious & irrational.

Maybe they don't smoke n post . @angry posters, c'est KB non?

I'm certainly more relaxed on it according to my wife and I haven't "smoked" for a couple of months and although I ain't bouncing off the walls, I'm certainly not as relaxed.... but not enough for me, or my wife, to go out of our way to remedy that by scoring illegal substances. I don't sleep as well either, and that's what I really miss ...