Have Your Say

[F420]

IMO it is because im a unofficial med user.

Whenever I take the LEGAL prescription its fucks with my mind and turns me in to an aggressive know it all fuckhead.

I yell at cunt in thier cars and even pulled one fucker out of his cage when he cut me off on my bike.

 

On MJ I dont have an mood swings, I can sleep better at night, Im happy all the time and dont let simple things eat at me like I used to on the drs meds.

 

Mj helps my medical problems better than ANY prescriptions, it makes me feel good and its free.

 

Why shouldnt it be available to people like me?? I even had a scare recently and thought about getting off it and back on the meds.

Both my GP and my specalist warned me NOT to give it up and said they would back me if I got caught.

They both saw the changes in me after giving up their legal bullshit and growing and smoking my own medicine.

 

not only that but what right should a democracy have to tell people that they can enjoy other drugs but not the less harmful of any drug.

its all madness.

[FUKN_BISH]

I think the only reason that ciggy's & alchol are legal is because of all the money the government make off the packaging & tax ... these are not official numbers but im sure more than half of australians smoke ciggys, im surely addicted ... and if they did legalise marijuana they would surly put some kind of tax for it .

 

Dont Panic, The only reason they charged your neice $250 is because they are shifty kunts ... one of my friends got smacked up by a cop & got charged $500 for a new bonnet (the cop smashed his head into the bonnet) justice ??

 

The only justice I see is down the barrel of my shotty

[hally]

hi, mj should be legalised because it's no more harmful then alchol but marijuana has the addvantage of being a natural pain killer (p.s. a similar drug to THC naturaly produces in the brain) and i myself suffer from a injure to my spine when i was a child and i have tried alot of prescription medicanes with no success but if i have 2 cones of mj, the back pain of mine is gone for a couple of hours. also mj is a natural pain killer plant (created by god) and no one should have the right to ban natural plants

 

and in my appion the only reason alchocal is legal is because it is a bribe from society to keep working the working lifestyle and the goverment can't make it illegal now because it would cause a revolution.

 

 

everyone in australia vote greens this year and free the plant

 

setection 3.19 covers mj on the following link

http://www.greens.org.au/ploneprint/drugss...seaddiction.pdf

 

hally

[kat]

Drug law history shows the attitudes and influences that have led to the criminalisation of drug use.

In the 19th century the use of now prohibited or restricted drugs was widespread and tolerated. For example laudanum, a household painkiller available without a prescription, was a mixture of opium and alcohol and was used for babies with teething problems. A marijuana cigarette was available in Australia and, to name just two of the numerous drug-laced patent medicines available, Bonnington’s Irish Moss contained opium alkaloids and Ayre’s Sarsaparilla Mixtures contained opium. In the 1890s, morphine lozenges did not come under the existing poisons legislation. Opium was seen as a valuable commodity and was exported in vast quantities from India into China to balance the British Empire’s tea trade. The Opium Wars of 1839-42 and 1856-58 broke out as the Chinese tried to resist the importation of the drug.

 

Drug law has always had an identity crisis, torn between the need to make some drugs legal because of their medicinal properties and at the same time prohibit them as recreational drugs.

Australian drug law has developed in the wider context of international law. Much of our drug law is based on international perceptions and obligations under treaties.

Some of the attitudes of historical times resemble today’s most tolerant views. In 1908, the Labor leader, W A Holman protested at the use of opium being made an offence at law, when used ‘by an adult man who knows what he is doing and is master of his own actions’. Drug use and addiction were regarded as illnesses and not as criminal offences.

 

 

Modern drug law represents a shift from people making their own choices about drugs, which they were largely able to do in the 19th century, to prohibiting the use of drugs and/or restricting them through close supervision.

 

The reasons for this shift in Australia were not necessarily based on, for example, scientific evidence of the drug’s effects. The first legislation in Australia dealing with recreational use was directed specifically against smoking opium. There was growing concern towards the turn of the century about addictive drugs, but this had little effect on government policy until attention focused on the opium-smoking Chinese population.

 

This attention had less to do with any recognition of the dangers of addictive drugs such as morphine and heroin, which remained largely uncontrolled, than with prejudiced notions that particular racial groups were abusing recreational drugs by giving them to vulnerable sections of the community. Although a good source of tariffs in the 19th century, opium smoking came to be seen as a distinctive habit of the Chinese community, whose very existence, let alone their particular drug habits, faced restriction. A campaign developed against what the press luridly described as the Chinese opium den culture, where young white women were supposedly led astray.

 

Nevertheless the first drug law in Australia focused on drugs in the hands of a racial minority and not on the addictive properties of drugs themselves. Those drugs not used by the Chinese did not attract laws forbidding their use.

 

 

Pre-Federation legislation enacted by some of the States’ colonial governments also specifically protected Aborigines from being paid in opium. It did not prohibit the supply of drugs to other people. In general, the European population did not believe that its own consumption of drugs needed to be controlled although there were early campaigns against the use of addictive drugs in the broader community, along with the Temperance Movement calling for prohibition of alcohol.

 

 

Federation eventually brought some important changes, including the Commonwealth’s involvement in international law and its obligations under international treaties. Our policy has moved towards harm minimisation while our prohibition-based law still reflects its historical links, through international law, with American zero tolerance policies. The USA’s continuing influence, through the research it funds, keeps zero tolerance to the fore, although overdose deaths in the US have doubled in the last ten years.

 

Put simply, marijuana is viewed by those in political power as a harmful drug used mainly by the lower socio-economic groups. If we think about this assumption and ask ourselves who it is we see in courts on the lesser marijuana charges then it would appear to be true. Although marijuana is used by a large cross-section of the population, it is rare that we see offenders who are in very high income brackets, who maintain a profession that pays in excess of $50,000 per annum and are financially independent, although there is no doubt that people in those catergories do in fact partake in the use of cannabis.

Until the governing bodies realise that the use of cannabis is not always a pre-cursor to crime, addiction of stronger drugs and the loss of an individuals social ability, cannabis will remain a prohibited drug.

 

The major feature of the history of australian politics has been, in my view, that our legislations and policies do and will follow those of our larger neighbours such as the USA and the UK. Australia is involved in International treaties and while cannabis remains prohibited in those countries it will remain prohibited here. There have been many enquiries and commissions into the use of cannabis as both a medicinal and recreational drug, and although alot of those enquiries have reported positive findings, supporting the legalisation of marijuana, the Government has chosen to continue to take a harsh stance on cannabis use. And it will continue to do so until such times that we elect a Government whose main concern is the wishes of its constituents rather than the wishes of the global village. Many of us are aware of the reasons why cannabis should be legalised. Rest assured that the Government is also aware of these reasons. But until they are sanctioned on a global basis they will not be recognised, no matter how many signatures and petitions the government recieves.

I honestly believe that the only road to legalisation is a political one, there has to be a pro-active stance taken by a large number of people,and the forming of more pro-cannabis political parties that have a solid legislative base, because the government pays little attention to protest groups and rallies held on the steps of Parliament house.

[Luke Skywalker]

*claps loudly*

 

Spot on there. But I personally don't think that we (Australia) are necessarily going to be tied to the drug "enforcement" (and I use that term with utter contempt) of the UK and the US, although the latter would appear to have more of an influence over us than the former. But yeah, I can see a time, not too far away, when the prohibitionist stances of the governments of the last century will be repealed and recognition will be gained for the loss of life, liberty and justice that it has entailed within it.

 

We just have to want it bad enough, and act.

 

Once again though, good piece there, this is turning into a quite deep debate eh?

[Alison Myrden]

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