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Showing posts with label hemp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hemp. Show all posts

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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Friday, November 19, 2010

Enforce the law

There is a guy in Switzerland, Bernard Rappaz, he is on a hunger strike because he was growing cannabis and it is illegal so the authorities took him to court and he got 5 years and 8 months imprisonment for violation of the country's federal drug laws.

Now he is on a hunger strike because he says he has a right to engage in civil disobedience for his political cause for the legalisation of cannabis, which he conveniently calls hemp  ... (they are the same plant).

His supporters, naturally, are not only defending his right to grow and use dope but also his hunger strike and now this is where it has gotten interesting. Rather than the debate be about enforcement of the laws of the land or even a debate about the merits or otherwise of legalisation, by going on a hunger strike in prison Bernard Rappaz has turned the national debate on this issue about whether doctors are allowed or even forced to keep him alive against his will to serve out his prison sentence or should doctors just let a man die because that is what he wants to do?

Some are even suggesting that the law should not be enforced on Bernard because he strongly opposes it …. TURN IT UP.

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Proudly supported by:

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.



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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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