Daily review 04/12/2020

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  1. Phillip ure 1
    4 December 2020 at 6:57 pm

    a question re the med-pot operations in Gisborne..and taranaki..

    I was wondering if they received any gummint funding..?

    'cos my understanding is that they have pre-sold their crops for the next two years …overseas/for export..

    and this at a time when there are many here needing med-pot…and there ain't none to be had..so..w.t.f..!

    does this 'transforming' government intend to have med-pot in name only..?

    with the only option being that big-pharma muck..?

    this would not be a good outcome…

    and in fact would be yet another benchmark in incrementalism..

    in seeming to do something..but in reality..

    ..doing very little ..

  2. Treetop 2
    4 December 2020 at 7:47 pm

    I am stumped when it comes to testing an illegal substance at a music festival and not rolling out medicinal cannabis.

    Would cannabis be tested at a music festival to make sure it was not sprayed with meth?

    So what is the moral of the story?

  3. RedLogix 3
    5 December 2020 at 4:12 pm

    As usual Joe Hildebrand writes a rollicking good column:

    Even so, that doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. The only reason China isn’t able to toss us around like a ragdoll and post as many mean tweets as they want is because we still have the grand old US of A standing behind us. And while the US hardly has a pure history either I’d back it over the People’s Republic any day. At least in the American republic the people can vote for more than one party.

    Or to put it more simply, sooner or later we're going to have to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea.

  4. RedLogix 4
    5 December 2020 at 5:08 pm

    Kim Hill has a very interesting interview on the Aus/NZ relationship:

    Laura Tingle is a senior political journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the author of Chasing the Future: Recession, Recovery and the New Politics in Australia.

    An acclaimed essayist, she's just written a new longform article called The High Road: What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand.

    In it she considers the current state of the trans-Tasman relationship and compares and contrasts the two countries' attitudes towards government, the economy, our colonial past, and the current pandemic.

    An extract of the essay (otherwise a paid item).

    In the course of my research, it has been impossible not to be constantly perplexed by the strange way our two countries regard each other: all that rhetoric about ties forged in blood, and sporting competition, yet a jolly mistrust, disdain and, well, lack of interest. Until recently.