Post by CrashOn Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:40:19 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot
Post by TonyShe and many others should have been allowed the medicinal
cannabis opportunity.
She fought for her beliefs and was a determined advocate for
working folk. By the way Rich - this is non-political - your
party is as much to blame as the current government! So please
respect a fighter and let her rest in peace and let her family
say their good byes!
Tony
You have a very jaundiced view of politics, Tony. Sometimes an
issue comes to the fore that strikes our collective conscience -
or something like that. There are sometimes issues that you would
expect one party to support and another to oppose, but if they
are in power at the approriate time, the party that would have
been expected to oppose may find that they cannot ignore public
opinion and pass legislation. This is an issue that could easily
have been one of those - if the libertarian, business oriented
part of National had not been overruled by the conservative,
moralistic, simplistic part. We do have many drugs that are
rightly prescription only - but this drug started as a
recreational drug used by people that would not normally be
assocaited with National, and the necessary separation of issues
is difficult for some. I agree with you that medicinal cannabis
is a positive oportunity. It has been tried and found acceptable
in a number of other countries; public opinion would support it,
but despite yur views, it is effectively a political decision -
which in this case appears to be being made or strongly
influenced by Peter Dunne - who bizarrely has supported other
undesirable drugs in the past. I accept that many of the same
issues have existed in teh past under Labour, but with the
difference that public opinion was lessin favour, and we did not
have the evidence of both the beneficial effect of medicinal
cannabis, or the expereince of other countries. Again the reasons
for policy not being changed were totally political.
I suspect her family is proud of the stance that she took on many
things - not just medicinal cannabis; it is not her fauilt that
she did not succeed in this campaign; let us hope that the issue
does not die. We have lost a fighter who did not shy away from
things because they may be deemed "political"- she spent her life
trying to help others, and that is how she will be remembered.
Peter Dunne and some others that have their heads in the sand on
this issue will not be as well remembered.
I have no jaundice; you have no integrity.