There may be a legal case coming up in NZ to test the legalisation of pot for legitimate medical uses.

Apparently by international laws govt should allow people to have medicine.

the banning of pot to some people for medical uses contravenes that law.

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Did you have the common sense to realise that you felt unsafe to perform tasks?
Did you make your colleagues feel unsafe by your presence in this state?
What did you do about it?

Should I trust that you might take a common sense course of action?

I'm very sure that you'd have your wits about you Muso.

yeah Argus Tuft  ( tufty ) it's a bit of a worry.

Mind you, those US states that are more realistic in this- are not your bible-belt states, as far as I know.  Guess that is an advantage with having so many state governments and a 'recognition, by some at least' that one size DOES NOT FIT ALL.  Unlike here - where peer approval, polls and popularity seem to be the most important things to many australians. I'll bet you anything, that many public pot decriers, are secret smokers - in the privacy of their home.
And there is another problem with the WOD.  U might!? smoke??  your home is not yours, your privacy disappears, and you face punitive legal and social losses.
   
WHY???   don't ask me - I've said it all too many times before.

I'd much prefer police used their time and our money, more productively, but the Law is the law. However stupid and harmful it is. 

Go Figure.!!!!!!!

Amadd wrote on Jul 19^th, 2011 at 7:51am:


I can certainly sympathise ammad, as the more "responsible" drug users have to try and avoid the snares set to catch the irresponsible, but to pretend that there are not a great many irresponsible users is pretty dubious.
I have had enough experience to consider myself at least as qualified as any person I know of to make that judgement call, so rather than blaming society for protecting itself, blame the dropkicks who obviate that need, by doing the wrong thing at the wrong time.

Note, also, that the responsible users will be the older users, and unless they give rise to suspicion through their behaviour, then they are unlikely to be targeted, and would need to be a bit unlucky to get randomly tested.

'I have had enough experience to consider myself at least as qualified as any person I know of to make that judgement call, so rather than blaming society for protecting itself, blame the dropkicks who obviate that need, by doing the wrong thing at the wrong time.'

Sorry?  was that Mozzaok?

This seems to suggest that  a relatively few people- who act badly, ...justify the onerous situation we ALL  live under.
This seems unbalanced to me.  
Society accepts many more harmful substances than Pot.
And Life Goes On is correct.  

A person may have smoked Pot for say 40 yrs - as a reasonably safe recreational and/or necessary medicinal aid.

This person may have never come to the attention of Police, or neighbours, or road users, because of it.
This person may have worked for the people, this person may have been a Journalist, this person may have been a labourer, ....but none of that  matters-  random is random - and the Law is the law.
No matter how poorly drafted, prejudicial and detrimental it may be.

Too bad for the genuinely good folk I have known - over the years - if they are run afoul of this foul fascist shite.   Big Brother is here - and he DOESN"T like you.!!!!!!!!!!!!

muso wrote on Jul 19^th, 2011 at 8:57am:


Haha. Being a scientist Muso - I'm surprised at your ignorance at the time. I've never taken cold & flu tablets or anything much of a chemical nature - but I do recall those who did and they were heroin addicts who couldn't get a fix. It was the codeine they craved for the "pain".

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True, but Mozzaok's point is that the older pot smoker has had so many more years to learn discretion and they know their limitations. They wouldn't take the same risks as someone younger who perhaps can't predict where the drug will take them.

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You'd need to take 30, 40, 50+ over the counter Codeine products to just take the edge off hanging out for Heroin. Even then it's unlikely the effect they'd have would be very satisfactory.