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This case exemplifies all that is wrong with the international drug covenants and conventions to which New Zealand is a signatory.

Recent hangings in South East Asia, firing squads in China, and most recently two Kiwi’s arrested (and presumed guilty) for 3.5oz of cannabis between them in India, (the home of Ganja, a plant named as sacred along with the river Ganges) all happen because we as a nation collectively give licence to kill and incarcerate cruelly and inhumanely.

Where is the legal profession on drug policy?

Or is the substantial legal aid grift and perpetual social mayhem an incentive for a silence closely resembling stupidity? NZ’s own National Drug Intelligence Bureau chief along with the BERL Drug Harm report (though much criticised) states that the revenue ‘churn’ through the legal system is a DRUG HARM.

The LEGAL profession are beneficiaries of the unintended consequences. So when are you collectively going to talk about that?

To the Law Commission? Yeah Right!

Curiously, in Christchurch’s sister city Seattle, it was the law profession that lead drug policy law reform. see King County Bar Association – http://www.kcba.org/druglaw/

“The principal objectives of this effort are: reductions in crime and public disorder; improvement of the public health; better protection of children; and wiser use of scarce public resources.”

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Handle on Non-Lethal Force For Change

Following the recent Queensland multi-tased death arrest I have noticed a consistent representation of views on blogs and media comment pages that validates my concerns that the general populace would go along with this fear of crime thing. (manufactured consent?)

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Much of it is predicated on drug myths. (much the same as crack, crank and meth led to up scaling from .38’s to .45 and to automatics).

1:1 meetings this week with local [National] MP’s only trot out more tough on behaviour, crime, tough on alcohol…. and meth. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

The BERL report(s) on drug harms released prior to the Law Commission discussion documents is a failure in due process as well as ‘failure in reason’ misstating the problem by orders of magnitude.

When can we expect someone factor in the benefits of ‘common civility’.

No Media in New Zealand has written critically of the implication of applied, and now law, Class D drug policy. No Member of the House has regaled.

Yet, like BERL’s reports, it’s a MoH issue. Drugs=Minister’s Warrant, Alcohol=Ministry’s Brief.

Public perception… Taser’d means drugged.
Where is the ‘legal’ sector on this.?
http://www.wkrg.com/crime/article/lawsuit-filed-by-mother-of-man-who-died-after-being-tasered/113391/http://www.wkrg.com/crime/article/children_zapped_by_stun_gun/25801/

Today’s Police arbitrary ‘handle on gun’ ownership issue even cites Napier’s ‘Molenaar’ incident while pot smoking was likely the very effective, safe and economic anti-anxiolotic scientific research shows it to be and, was by the perpetrators community actions, ‘mediating meth in the community’ no good story can be told.

More guns will be found to be ‘semi-automatic’ and the cycle begins again. Any gun elevates drug [prohibition] harm. Feeds fear. Allocates more Money for Failure.

Professor of Law, Jock Young had it right back in the seventies. “deviancy amplifying” all right! BERL’s economists wouldn’t know a benefit or a behavior if they fell over them and RH. John Key wouldn’t know a science adviser if one fell over him.

I recall a certain Minister of Health back in 1975 who, on enactment of the Misuse of Drugs Act, said that it ‘would give the Police powers to which they were not entitled’, how prophetic.

— Blair Anderson ‹(•¿•)›

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Clean-Out Police HQ [Cactus Kate]

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Blair Anderson said…

>We need a clean-out in Police HQ starting at the top and going a long way down.

I would start with the twats that were behind the BERL drug harm index. They are self interested and thus dangerous. They are resource guarding. I would follow with a sideways ‘amputation’ of the arm they call national drug ‘intelligence’. Why? Well, hell, what on their watch has been measurably accomplished, other than a palpable belief in a bottomless pit of money while clamouring for more resources, and a selfless disregard for reality endangering not only themselves but the public at large.

So far the best we get is an attempt to redeem themselves with advertising real-estate. (so much for getting better work stories, like humping swathes of pot back to the helicopters).

Thank Gawd, the new Class D regulations legalising recreational psychoactive soft drugs is administered by the Ministry of Health. (Nov6th 2008)

That will do more to restore confidence in Police (and Health) than any MadMan can achieve.

see link at Cactus Kate, 10:24 PM, January 23, 2009

(it remains enigmatic that NZ Police, who on one hand advertise “community policing” but are poker faced when it comes to listening to authoritative opinion and scientific evidence from ‘the community’. Case in point, National Drug Intelligence refusing point blank to as much as meet visiting Law Enforcment Against Prohibition [www.leap.cc] speaker Judge Jerry Paradis. No time for as much as a coffee, a drug in and of itself ranked more dangerous (harmful/addictive) than cannabis. To busy writing inane ‘police reports’ or surfing the net looking for the latest drug threat to postulate ‘will be invading’ the country, or fraternising with inumerable other grifters like customs and border control who mysterioulsy appear ‘in numbers’ around the “Expert Advisory Committee on Drugs” [EACD] table when ever a ‘health issue’ needs voting on. /Blair )

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