It’s Harvest Time Again in th’Country.
“We are creating alienation of our people.” (Nandor Tanczos, circa 2001)
We as a Nation are being stupid with the hypocritical and non-efficacious drug policy.
We’re making a mess of ourselves by denial of our own liberty and adult right to decide in a schizophrenic cycle of harm
maximising violations.
There is violation and disrespect in criminalising a ‘selected’ few of the 400,000 who collectively and casually break
the rules, millions of times a year. Few consumers believe that cannabis is criminally bad or the evil it being made out
to be, especially when it often is enjoyed more than alcohol and displaces other drugs like tobacco.
These ideas are supported by robust science. Health epidemiologists have shown that Gangs are logical result. And
violence, and associated crime. All predicted.
[see http://uhri.cfenet.ubc.ca/content/view/83]
Police harvest peaks at this time every year to boost crime resolution figures and maximise personal and collective gain
Meanwhile the whole nation seems to have lost respect for rule of law evident particularly in booze culture, driving,
commerce and even law enforcement itself.
What is there to fear from 400,000 law abiding citizens? By far the most ‘use’ is of no consequence, users moderating at
low cost, any harms.
We instead collectively say that they are useless, stupid dopers, presumably to save them from themselves. Is it
working?
We legislated for 'use' of restricted substances over a year ago. So, restrict them to adult choice.
Our current lot of politicians are too gutless to have the required conversation. There is a Law Commission Review and
they stand quiet. There is the Siege in Napier Inquiry, a classic case of ‘deviancy amplification’ and still they stay
quiet. None will say (despite evidence to support it) that there is a matrix of dysfunction that relates to the
criminalisation. Is that not what happened in Napier? Or are we watching a different movie?
Injustice breeds social damage. Thus we are at war ‘on ourselves..’
Police are putting up that three thousand more cannabis criminals over last year is a success, where it is by any policy
analytic standard, proof of abject failure.
If it wasn’t for cannabis the Police wouldn’t look very good at all.
Good on Billy McGee (GreenCross) for raising the injustice issue going on ‘under the radar’ these Easter holidays,
observes the Kiwi Cannabis is SAFER candidates.
Lets fix it. Right here, Right Now!
ENDS