Is alcohol and tobacco included in the nz drug harm index? If the police shut down 5 liquor wiith Tobacco stores, how many million would that save via the formula.Rather a lot I would say, especially via a cheap e mail message to shut these sellers of POISON and violence and rotting stinky lungs...DO IT,don't DISCRIMINATE..ps ; merry xmas if you have anything left to lift your mood with.
I for one dont want to be breathig in peoples secondhand cannabis smoke - or have my kids around it. Its proven it affects driving. It can bring on mental illness in those subseptible, especially from what Ive seen - anxiety problems. Yeah sure there is literature about the effects but it seems to only be the users who moan and groan about it being illegal and compare it to alcohol. But looking at it in its own right I cant say I see anything positive esp as its known that it can easily be laced with other drugs. Probably TO LATE to remove alcohol and tobacco from our society but its a pity those too werent outlawed from the get go - so YEAH my full support in keeping this drug off the streets and out of our homes away from our kids - HOW MANY OF THIS COUNTRIES YOUTHS ARE WASTING THEIR LIVES AWAY (and money) ON THIS DRUG. Yes some people function OK but I happen to know a fair few adult addicts who dont. Stamp it out and use my tax dollars happily. Good on NZ Police.
What a waste of tax payers money.. Who did you save by taking those plants? pharmaceutical companys? Listen to the people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is a pity that Police resources canot be more prioritised onto protcecting the innocent from Living street violence, domestic abuse and Childrens safety that nannying personal libertarian lifestyle pleasures and free choices. Gromit 2
New Zealand is very backward with respect to non-toxic cannabis. let's face it... 'they're just doing their job'
"Based on the New Zealand Drug Harm Index, it was estimated that $379 million worth of social harm had been prevented by the operation, Mr McGill said." What a crock, cannabis does not create social harm with exception of the fact that it creates tinnie houses where people can also buy 'P' How many deaths have been associated with cannabis??? And how many deaths have been associated with alcohol and cigarettes??? This country will never learn, I bet the police spend far more of our taxes policing this drug as opposed to the supposed social harm they believe it creates. You only have to look at Amsterdam where you can sit and smoke it at a cafe and they don't have any criminal issues associated with it. At least they have some common sense.
How come I can buy ciggarettes and alcohol 24 hours a day in New Zealand but not marijuana?The World Health Organisation says tobacco and alcohol are far more dangerous than THC, yet we live in a society that is prepared to ingnore common sense, continue to accept alcohol and tobacco in society, and persecute users of cannabis because of people like Jim Anderton and Peter Dunne.
I wonder how many man hours the police wasted with this latest war on cannabis effort. All the while the child abuse cases(Waiarapara district)and violent crime offences go un-investigated. How can they possibly justify spending our taxpayer money trying to push up the street price of cannabis. This should be the job of the IRD to track down people growing and selling plants for profit and not paying tax on the proceeds.Police should be spending thier time catching real criminals who have victims such as rapists, wife beaters, burglars etc..Not wasting thier time on cannabis, which is a victimless "crime". Sure gangs and other crime groups use cannabis to generate income. All the more reason to regulate its production and supply to take the money our of the hands of organised crime.Prohibition did not work for alcohol and it sure is not working for cannabis so why cary on with a policy that has failed.Young people need to be given the facts to base thier decisions on not fear mongering that cannabis use will turn them into losers. Alcohol and tobacco are indesputably more harmful than cannabis. However people who choose to use cannabis are labelled criminals and treated as second class citizens and branded with criminal records for possesing a medicinal herb. Why should adults not have the right to choose what they put in thier bodies without fear of going to prison?
