Image via Wikipedia On Sunday last I was speaking at St Mary's Catholic Church Hall in New Brighton launching informally my third Christchurch City Mayoral campaign... just as the UK's Guardian/Observer was publishing an opinion piece that cited
LEAP colleagues of mine. [retired judge Maria Lucia Karam]
Amongst other things of high import to the October postal election I argued that Hon Jim Anderton has no place being rewarded with the Mayoralty of my home town for the legacy of failure that he had both responsibility for (assoc Min of Health) and under his watch saw the ramping up of drug prohibition. (like banning BZP despite 'best practice' recommendations to put it in Class D)
I was applauded for having the courage to postulate,
were cannabis put under Anderton's "restricted substances regulations" [cf: Class D], would the Police dog "Gage" be alive or dead today? If the answer is ALIVE, then you cannot vote for and thus reward failure.
Image via WikipediaIf the hypocrisy that underpins our ‘all drugs’ policy was capital we would be in surplus.
