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Showing posts with label cannabis. Show all posts

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, December 6, 2010

Give prevention a genuine chance before saying it hasn't worked.

Hot on the heels of the recent drug-legalisation group's big promotional tour to Australia the Sydney Morning Herald has published a news story about the floundering Federal and state governments' amphetamine crack down.

But what more can Australia's current drug policies do when we have the government advisory body itself divided and floundering on focus and direction and so instead of having clear and focussed policy with clear direction, backed up by action by law enforcement supported by education and medical intervention. Instead we have a half baked drugs policy that guarantees its own failure, and you might well ask is that in fact their way of setting Australia up for full blown legalisation?

Of course critics of "Prevention" will say it has failed, and will point things like the cost of this $20 million amphetamine crackdown program and the lack of its effectiveness & say it has failed but what they won't say is that the government's own drugs policy advisors have managed to white ant government drug policies to ensure their failures to put Australia in a no-win situation.

So we have a Federal Labor government needing the Greens to retain power and the NSW March state governments election very much dependent on what the major political parties do on policies like drug policies and their dances with the minor parties. There are some who want to swap preferences and do a merry dance with the Greens. You know what I say...Turn It Up. I'm Michael Robinson.


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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Legalisation of drug use is a confused policy


I've said in the past that you'd have to smoke a lot of dope before you think legalisation of drugs is a good idea, but there are some who want it, and their reasoning is equally as confused when you get into the detail of their argument, nevertheless they are passionate and persistent.

Mind you the current policy in NSW says if you were on a train station you could light up a cannabis joint and get nothing more than a warning but light up a tobacco cigarette and you could appear before a magistrate.

Ethan Nadleman's is the international poster boy for durg legalisation and his current visit to Australia has fired up the local pro-legalisation crowd. Their argument is that law enforcement has failed to stop drug use so we might as well surrender to the problem and tax it.

Most of the people who say this at least publicly express concern over health issues and so long as you don't scratch too far beneath the detail of their argument they argue it passionately, but legalisation equals more use and more use equals more problems.

Look at history of tobacco smoking as a warning because it repeats all the same mistakes - first quasi medicinal claims, then taxing it, none of these prevent the problems of use.

We need a comprehensive prevention policy with education and law enforcement and health all working together for prevention of use. ... and for the intervention and rehabilitation of users.

I know some will claim legalisation is better...Turn It Up.


p.s.
There are quite a lot of ironies and hidden agendas when you start getting into the issues around substance use, abuse and addiction and most of them are pushed by the same kind of people who will light up a cigarette around others and blow smoke in your face because they simply don't care about themselves or about anyone else.


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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.



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Where to Listen:
Turn It UP Mike Segment can be heard 
on Radio 2SM and stations on the Super Network
Monday to Friday with Grant Goldman.
http://www.2sm.com.au
click on Grant Goldman and Listen Live online

How to Contact
To sponsor this segment on the 2SM
Super Radio Network and
online email me at
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