* Posts by John

4 publicly visible posts • joined 12 May 2008

Aussie government to rig filter testing

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NZ here I come...

@CockKnocker

My thoughts exactly, and probably what we'll end up doing eventually! :-)

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OZ going down the pan

I have family in OZ and once upon a time there were many positive reasons to move out there and virtually no reasons not to, these days the opposite is becoming true.

This is yet another reason I wouldn't even consider it anymore, the country is clearly going down the pan, and going by the recent press and what I've been told the government seem to be mentally impaired to say the least!

Armed anti-paedophile cops swoop on video site uploader

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Seriously WTF!?!?

Absolutely ridiculous, I can only assume that the authorities involved have completely lost the plot!

Was the child injured in any way physically or mentally? No.

Did the child seem scared, distressed or even remotely bothered? No.

Was the video even genuine? F$&% knows!

Quite frankly I've seen far worse on TV programs clearly put across in a way intended to be comical, so why this guy should be singled out like this is just mind-bogglingly ludicrous!

Home Secretary goes crazy on drugs... policy

John

Top Class Article

Just spent quite a while reading the article & comments so far.

I must say it's by far the most accurate and unbiased article I've read on the subject for a long time, one of the main reasons I love this site.

@liam - well said, couldn't agree more about the paranoia :)

I found this one most interesting...

"Simple answer, classify cannabis in the same group as alcohol, tax it and improve our national Health Service with the proceeds. It only needs some politicians with balls to do this but they wont cos they would loose the white middle class ignorant vote." - interesting. i wonder if the ignorant white middle class people know their kids smoke? or how they would feel seeing their friends kids go to jail. im sure most dont even realise how many people smoke!"

To me that seems the most logical action, it's always seemed weird to me that alcohol should be legal whilst cannabis is illegal, seriously which causes more health problems!? But we all know they aren't about to make alcohol a class C drug, people wouldn't stand for it for one thing.

So I find myself asking why a natural herb which has many genuine medical uses and does no harm to anyone except the odd predisposed nut-job (who would likely go off the rails on alcohol etc anyway) shouldn't be legal!?

I could go on but this is turning into an article in itself, I've smoked it for around 12 years, no ill-effects, if anything the opposite is true as it's the only thing I've ever found that helps keep my stress levels in check, not to mention I used to be an insomniac and now enjoy... no, REALLY enjoy... a full nights sleep every night.

I'm with the others that said something needs to be done, but again... what?

To openly declare ourselves as cannabis smokers would most likely lead to the police paying us a visit etc, and as a lot of us have family responsibilities it's a risk we can't take, but something has to be done, and I hope one day an opportunity arises to really show the government how strongly a large proportion of the population (probably a whole lot bigger than the government suspects) feels about this issue once and for all!!