Daily review 30/10/2020

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47 comments on “Daily review 30/10/2020 ”

  1. alwyn 1

    Can anyone say whether a proposed Green/Labour agreement has been reached and whether it has gone out to the Green Party membership?

    Is it all members or a subset panel?

    • Treetop 1.1

      Maybe the cannabis situation is holding up an announcement.

      I want to know the new cabinet positions.

      I really want transformation in ACC for historical sexual assault cases and organisations who worsened the mental injury even though they were not the offender of the sexual assault/s. Gaslighting on its own can be very harmful.

  2. Treetop 2

    In hindsight a referendum on medicinal cannabis may of been the smart move.

    Crazy as when the pain becomes too much you can shorten your life. Being able to choose cannabis over opioids has for now been denied for pain relief.

  3. Phillip ure 3

    So…we can ask other people to kill us…but we can't smoke a joint..?.

    • Pat 3.1

      apparently so…with conditions

    • Incognito 3.2

      Close…but no cigar…

      • SPC 3.2.1

        Why is decriminalisation dependent on the legalisation referendum result? Even some of those who organised against legalisation support decriminalisation.

    • Treetop 3.3

      Not a medicinal joint to treat pain. Just opioids and you could overdose unintentionally.

      The mandate as of today is not to decriminalise. Cannabis can be treated as a health issue to avoid prosecution. This would not be suitable for ongoing pain.

      Hopefully someone with some commonsense will intervene when it comes to medicinal use soon and set up a cannabis pharmacy.

      • SPC 3.3.1

        The mandate is to not legalise. Not to decrminalise is a political call made by the Labour government.

        • Treetop 3.3.1.1

          What does not to decriminalise actually mean?

          • SPC 3.3.1.1.1

            Decriminalisation means people can smoke without threat of prosecution. And without police using evidence (witchsmelling dope nearby) of it, for search of your property without a warrant.

            The legal matter is then amount of dope around, below amounts associated with supply.

            So not to decriminalise means that Little is saying he will not do anything to prevent persecution of marijuana users. And most of those will be Maori, so its effect is racist. As for those using it for pain and nausea because its the affordable option, they are also at risk. More so because police may have held out for this referendum or for people to move onto expensive medicinal forms. Now they will come to confiscate and prosecute.

      • greywarshark 3.3.2

        People can be very reluctant to enable others to ease their pain. If I don't feel it, it can't be too bad.

  4. greywarshark 4

    Nuclear fallout is still being dealt with. Something has been happening that sounds good. We may yet see bad results ameliorated.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/429520/nukes-ban-treaty-progress-bodes-well-for-pacific-remediation

  5. greywarshark 5

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/429468/marine-heatwaves-higher-tropical-cyclone-risk-what-la-nina-means-for-new-zealand-this-summer

    First, what is La Niña?
    La Niña is one of the three phases of the weather occurrence known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

    This includes the warm phase called El Niño, the cooler La Niña and a neutral phase.

    It occurs when equatorial trade winds strengthen and blow the warm surface waters of the Pacific away from South America and towards Indonesia.
    In their place, colder waters from deep in the ocean come up to the surface.
    La Niña can happen every three to five years….

    Niwa says marine heatwaves have occurred during previous La Niña events, and warm seas contribute to warm temperatures on land – and contribute to summer storms and ex-tropical cyclones.

  6. Nathan Kerr 6

    The Cannabis vote, and weasel words will be the end of the Labour – Green Government in 2023…the left voters will remember this…just watch in 2023

    • greywarshark 7.1

      France with great sonorous values stated in speeches. Too set in theories of wonder and greatness of their belle epoque to actually now do something practical to cope with the troublesome matters arising from when they were lords and masters over other countries with different cultures.

      It is time for them to break through their own intransigence and self-aggrandisement. They are as bad as Britain, or as is commonly known the United Kingdom.

  7. Nathan Kerr 8

    The majority of voters who support Cannabis Law Reform are Labour/Green Voters — if Labour chooses to ignore them…and by default support National/Act Voters (who tend to be No voters)…they, Labour, will be voted out…watch 2023 elections for evidence of this..