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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

A plant isn't magic, but it's smoke can blind people to the real issues.

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The ongoing campaign to legalise cannabis use is one with a lot of myths and misinformation.

Almost a decade ago NSW Premier Bob Carr had promised to legalise cannabis use for medicinal purposes and he had the numbers in parliament to do so.

But just eating or smoking pot doesn’t magically make it medicine, and it is important to clearly understand what the agenda is really all about.

This is an issue that I campaigned strongly on at the time in my position as Executive Director of a national representative organisation.  We successfully stopped cannabis legalization by presenting the evidence to NSW and ACT MP’s about the proven dangers of using ...

Cannabis, marijuana, dope, call it whatever you like.

It still has some very dark aspects to it’s down side it isn’t hard to come across a lot of evidence showing that it isn’t as safe as those who smoke it would have you believe.


The campaign to legalise dope is aimed at getting a foot in the door by manipulating the public’s emotions and giving it this label of being a medicinal plant ...
so people start to think that the stuff is safe because it is a plant.

Who as ever heard of a poisonous or dangerous plant?


Turn It Up

I’m Michael Robinson






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Monday, November 21, 2011

How can parents protect their children from schoolies week dangers?


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A friend of mine commented last week that parents should not allow their children to go to the Gold Coast for schoolies week.

While I understand the point they were making, my reply to them was that once your children finish their HSC it is more than a little bit late to start exerting your parental influence over their decisions and actions.

In the early 2000’s I was executive director of a national drug education organisation.  We worked closely with other similar organisations around the world who took similar successful approaches helping parents over a lifetime of their children’s education and decision making.

In that time I coined a term pre-emptive prevention.

You can encourage someone to take drugs around friends so if something bad happens their friends will call an ambulance.  But That isn’t really prevention.  That is a drug use management tactic the government call harm reduction.


Pre-emptive prevention is about a lifetime of raising young people to have no desire to abuse their mind or their body with harmful, dangerous or addictive substances.

Pre-emptive prevention is an approach that families and communities use very effectively worldwide in many countries, what about here in Australia?

Turn It Up.

I’m Michael Robinson
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I want to thank the team from Bow Bow Plumbing.
Commercial plumbing maintenance, based in (not limited to) the Sydney area.

I've known them for a long time and always been impressed by them. 

Bow Bow Plumbing brings a work ethic to the job that we need
more of in the business world.

If you have need for a commercial plumber, check him out.