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December 28, 2009Rules looking for Problems.
December 19, 2009Denver Pot Clubs go before the Council.
Rules looking for Problems…..
Denver Councillors seem to overlook that its own Colorado State University [and affiliate laboratories] are now the seat of some of the most innovative patient centered medicinal cannabis therapeutics and science research on the planet. I personally inspected some of them. From SuperCritical CO2 extraction and precision genetic analysis to ice-cream 'mode of use' delivery!
Would the same Council 'ban' pharmacies from being close to Doctors?
It would not be an understatement to suggest that this is an emerging model for primary 'wellness' health care delivery.
Looks like Denver could use some Class D advice!
/Blair
More Men, More Horses.
December 18, 2009As contentious as the subject is, and for many for whom their story is one of consequences and poor outcomes, it can be fairly said there is nothing in the pharmacology of cannabis that directly leads to negative consequences. Indulgences to excess sure! But that is not 'cannabis' – that is the human condition and if it wasn't cannabis it would have been 'something else'. On reviewing ALL the comments there are as many ill-informed 'reform minded' folk as there are those who hold the line of status quo. However there are other factors to consider, many of them.
Would for example Napier Policeman Len Snee be alive or dead today under a Portugal/Netherlands/Brazil model? The answer is to that question is instructive. It has nothing to do with cannabis and how it affects people who consume it. It has a lot to do with the rules surrounding cannabis. The rules create 'deviancy amplification'. What ever cannabis does in a mental health setting is not helped by a 'policeman' at your door.
The law in this case (and there are other cases that can be equally made for LSD, MDMA and others) is an Ass. And before anyone jumps up and down.. It was so described by former Minister of Police and Health (the latter title holds the warrant for the exacting of the Misuse of Drugs Act) Hon Annette King. If the "warrant" holder has no confidence in the rules, neither should Police or Prosecutors or Judges. And neither should we.. the Public.
The maintenance of criminal sanction for the possession and/or cultivation of 'a plant' that is demonstrably a food supplement (go ahead… look up 'endocannabinoid' on google) represents one of the greatest social injustices of all time.
But don't expect anything but 'puerile' argument from the current Minister of Health (and former Justice Spokesperson) Tony Ryall. He has a stake-hold in maintaining the mayhem. For he will promise to save us from ourselves. And there are readers here who would hold the earnest view that so he should.
When the King saw Humpty Dumpty's condition… and ALL his 'men and horses' were unable to make good, it proved that no amount of men nor horses were going to fix the problem.
Ryall and his like just want more men and horses.
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Blair Anderson ‹(•¿•)›
Social Ecologist 'at large'
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Man smokes 115,000 joints legally in Ft. Lauderdale, sets ‘official’ all-time record
November 22, 2009Man smokes 115,000 joints legally in Ft. Lauderdale, sets ‘official’ all-time record.
He set the bar high and smoked the competition.
Irvin Rosenfeld, a 56-year-old stockbroker from Fort Lauderdale, will toke his way into the record books today by smoking his 115,000th joint. The best part: It’s completely legal. “Yep, provided by Uncle Sam,” Rosenfeld told NBC Miami. “They grow it for me.”
Rosenfeld, who suffers from a painful bone disorder, has received government-approved weed since 1982; he was grandfathered into a federal drug program after medicinal marijuana programs were cut 10 years later. That’s 300 joints every 25 days for 27 years—10 to 12 per day. “The first thing I do every morning is smoke two joints,” he says. “Then another on my drive to work.” It’s not as dangerous as you might think—Rosenfeld says he’s never gotten high on the stuff: “No munchies, no munchies, nothing other people get. A lot of patients don’t get high.”
Now for those who KNOW cannabis has NO LETHAL DOSAGE and who’ve smoked and NOT DIED from using NOT abusing cannabis these past 43 yrs, i’d have to say i beat that mark many years ago hehe,
how about you?
(heads up to JC)
Google Steals Blair’s Brain
November 13, 2009And how Blair got it back again…..
New Zealander’s ‘drug policy’ blog reinstated by Google
Blair Anderson’s blog about drug policy was taken down earlier this year because it hosted malware, Google said. / By James Heffield
Monday, 9 November, 2009
A Christchurch blogger who had his blog taken down by Google earlier this year has finally had it reinstated after a 10,000km trip to Google’s Mountain View Headquarters in California.
Blair Anderson, a former deputy leader of the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party and Christchurch mayoral candidate, told PC World that his mild greens “drug policy” blog hosted on Google’s Blogger website was taken down in August.
Google claimed it had malware on it, but the internet giant provided no further details or instructions as to how he might resolve the issue, he said.
“They said nothing. I used to have approximately 50 regular readers every day but I could have an individual entry that got as many as 500 hits.”
Subsequent emails to Google and calls to Google Australia requesting a process for having his blog reinstated had garnered no response, Anderson said.
To resolve the issue, Anderson decided to take drastic action. He booked flights to Google’s Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California, which he visited on Thursday.
“Security refused my first approach as I was seen by security cameras that surround the building taking a photo as I pointed to the Google sign.
“However, I made my point by writing a note and accompanying it with my business card and insisting that I would not go away until I had a hearing. It seemed not to matter a diddle that I had come 10,000km… and spent $2,000 just to get there.”
But despite his failure to get inside, his trip had the desired effect. Thirty minutes after his appearance his blog came back online and he received an email from Google Blogger team member Brett Wiltshire.
In the email, provided to PC World by Anderson, Wiltshire apologised for the removal of the blog. The email said the blog was taken done because of a “popular yet nefarious blog widget called BlogLinker, which was linking to known malware sites that were harmful to users”.
Wiltshire admitted that Google’s communication methods and arbitration system for people who had their blogs removed due to malware were virtually non existent.
“Since the vast majority of blogs classified as malware are created with malicious intent, we had not created a mechanism to appropriately message their removals to the affected users and facilitate appeals in cases like yours. We are actively working to correct this with more sophisticated communication systems.”
Anderson said he was happy with the outcome, but that Google’s response would be little comfort for others that found themselves in similar situations.
“I’ve come across 60 to 100 other people so affected. One guy has lost a three and a half year legacy of research into a murder investigation.”
He said he had written to Google in the hope that other similarly affected people on the Blogger site might have access to an arbitration process in future.
A Google New Zealand spokesperson confirmed that the company was “actively working on a better way of communicating with legitimate users” to provide an arbitration method for similar cases.
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Laundering Drug Stories – NBR
October 18, 2009
Money laundering bill passed by Parliament
A bill that boosts measures to counter money laundering by criminal gangs and organised crime has been passed into law.
Justice Minister Simon Power said the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act would help tackle financial and drug-related crime by helping police detect and trace the profits of organised crime groups.
A bill that boosts measures to counter money laundering by criminal gangs and organised crime has been passed into law.
Justice Minister Simon Power said the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act would help tackle financial and drug-related crime by helping police detect and trace the profits of organised crime groups.
ALCP comments : Cannabis Anomalies
Speaking of corruption, what if it’s the powers-that-be that are corrupt and rorting the system?
eg – What happened to the cost-benefit analysis of cannabis prosecutions that carried a ‘legislative implication’ 13 years ago? but was buried precisely because of its ‘legislative implication’.
And how much has been spent ‘unproven’ on criminalising cannabis since the cost benefit analysis was buried 11 years ago? Billions by my estimate. All acheiving nothing but social damage to the vast numbers arrested and prosecuted and punished for something that is really no worse than wine beer and spirits… (some 200,000 cannabis arrests since 1996)
A collosal rip off right under everyones noses
Still it keeps the ‘justice’ system ticking over just nicely, with cannabis criminality and related organised criminal enterprises meanwhile $$$$$$ is-money is safely laundered into the middle class salaries of the NZ crime-growth industry (police, courts, prisons etc – and Justice Minister Simon Power’s fat salary to boot…).
There was no small amount of irony in the news item on the bill just on tv1- showed a couple of police examining a cannabis bong, and leading away someone in handcuffs (serious crime, yeah right…)
NZ is very good at introducing more and more legislation built on the false and corrupt base of impractical and unjust prohibition.
Many people have been heard to say ‘the reason they wont legalise it is they cant tax it’…but I reckon ‘the reason they wont legalise it is because they’re all making too much money out of keeping it illegal…’
Kevin O’Connell, president ALCP
Cannabis vs Alcohol corruption
O’Connell is right on the button… a billion dollar rort indeed. No other area of public policy sees otherwise good people put in jail, arrested and detained without ‘a body’ or complainant all exacted under the warrant of the Minister of Health. Yet… recently published in the Lancet. “a recent study estimating that marijuana accounted for about 0.2% of the total disease burden in Australia, a nation with one of the world’s highest rates of cannabis use. Its health impact was one-tenth that of alcohol and one-fortieth that of tobacco, the study found.”
So why are we not arresting people for having a tipple, or owning a wine glass or an empty bottle of beer, or for that matter ‘matches’ as they evidence having formed the intent to use tobacco?
Consider also from the October 17 Lancet edition:
Overall, “the public health burden of cannabis use is probably modest compared with that of alcohol, tobacco, and other illicit drugs”
Cannabis is illegal BECAUSE without it the (unaccounted for) Police Drug squad would have bugger all to do and National Drug Intelligence’s recent 2010 drug report would look all the more stupid for its argument that the cannabis social harm is the amount of money spent policing it.
Curiously, why has media not reported the wisdom of the ALCP president. Oh, lets pretend crime IS the problem.
Yet the Australian Prime Minister recently awarded Mr Ian ‘harm reduction’ Webster for excellence at their 2009 National Drug And Alcohol Awards – he said “I think Alcohol and Drug problems are markers or indicators of underlying community and social structures, and are PRODUCTS OF THAT MORE THAN THE DRUG ITSELF”.
Money Drugs and the Law
October 15, 2009Money laundering bill passed by Parliament
A bill that boosts measures to counter money laundering by criminal gangs and organised crime has been passed into law.
Justice Minister Simon Power said the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act would help tackle financial and drug-related crime by helping police detect and trace the profits of organised crime groups.
Among its provisions is a customer check and reporting regime that banks, finance companies and casinos will have to follow.
“The Act enhances our ability to investigate organised crime by following the illegal money trail through financial systems and goes hand-in-hand with the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act passed in April,” he said.
“The Act will also ensure that New Zealand’s financial sector continues to be attractive to legitimate international investors and is not seen as a safe haven for organised criminals and tax evaders.”
The legislation implements measures established by the Financial Action Task Force, the body that sets international standards for combating money laundering and terrorist financing.
Blair Anderson
http://mildgreens.blogspot.com
MildGreens's Backup Blog 
Cannabis vs Alcohol corruption
So why are we not arresting people for having a tipple, or owning a wine glass or an empty bottle of beer, or for that matter ‘matches’ as they evidence having formed the intent to use tobacco?
Consider also from the October 17 Lancet edition:
Overall, “the public health burden of cannabis use is probably modest compared with that of alcohol, tobacco, and other illicit drugs”
Cannabis is illegal BECAUSE without it the (unaccounted for) Police Drug squad would have bugger all to do and National Drug Intelligence’s recent 2010 drug report would look all the more stupid for its argument that the cannabis social harm is the amount of money spent policing it.
Curiously, why has media not reported the wisdom of the ALCP president. Oh, lets pretend crime IS the problem.
Yet the Australian Prime Minister recently awarded Mr Ian ‘harm reduction’ Webster for excellence at their 2009 National Drug And Alcohol Awards – he said “I think Alcohol and Drug problems are markers or indicators of underlying community and social structures, and are PRODUCTS OF THAT MORE THAN THE DRUG ITSELF”.
cannabis anomalies
eg – What happened to the cost-benefit analysis of cannabis prosecutions that carried a ‘legislative implication’ 13 years ago? but was buried precisely because of its ‘legislative implication’.
And how much has been spent ‘unproven’ on criminalising cannabis since the cost benefit analysis was buried 11 years ago? Billions by my estimate. All acheiving nothing but social damage to the vast numbers arrested and prosecuted and punished for something that is really no worse than wine beer and spirits… (some 200,000 cannabis arrests since 1996)
A collosal rip off right under everyones noses
Still it keeps the ‘justice’ system ticking over just nicely, with cannabis criminality and related organised criminal enterprises meanwhile $$$$$$ is-money is safely laundered into the middle class salaries of the NZ crime-growth industry (police, courts, prisons etc – and Justice Minister Simon Power’s fat salary to boot…).
There was no small amount of irony in the news item on the bill just on tv1- showed a couple of police examining a cannabis bong, and leading away someone in handcuffs (serious crime, yeah right…)
NZ is very good at introducing more and more legislation built on the false and corrupt base of impractical and unjust prohibition.
Many people have been heard to say ‘the reason they wont legalise it is they cant tax it’…but I reckon ‘the reason they wont legalise it is because they’re all making too much money out of keeping it illegal…’
Kevin O’Connell, president ALCP