Temporary Daktory Evicted By Police in Dargaville
A temporary Daktory opened up in an abandoned building in Dargaville tonight by the Armistice Tour crew has been evicted by police, with one arrest. The arrest can be viewed on the crew's video link-up:
http://stickam.com/dakta_green
After being delayed by mechanical breakdowns, the Armistice Tour crew are now on the road. They will be broadcasting from temporary Daktories every night as they visit MPs offices around the country. Here is the original itinerary. Obviously the delays have changed it somewhat, and a more up-to-date itinerary will be posted as it comes to hand:
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Drugs are evil, should legalise them now
Anyone who still thinks prohibition reduces drug-related harm would benefit from reading this column from US newspaper the Times, entitled "Drugs are evil, should legalise them now.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/a...
Yep thats all young Maori in
Yep thats all young Maori in a poor town with limited opportunity need, an excuse to dope up, drop out and give up.
Dope is like alcohol, a blight on indigenous communites and another form of repression, this time as always used by an old white man to subvert young Maori youth.
Alcohol and cannabis are two
Alcohol and cannabis are two very different substances. I dont see people dying in droves on the roads from using cannabis, or beating the shit out of their partners and children as is regularly seen with the alcoholism epidemic in this country after smoking cannabis.
Thats the collateral damage the alcohol industry and its Government/business partner are involved in perpetuating with alcohol, and the cops love to through cannabis in with every opportunity they can in order to create the illusion that cannabis was somehow to blame as well.
Alcohol *is* the dope
@Kahui
Do you really think cannabis prohibition (or drug prohibition in general) helps young Maaori? Have you considered that heaps of them are in prison because of that system? Have you considered that persecution by the cops for cannabis is one of the things that makes them "give up" on society? How does it help them?
Dakta Green is not encouraging anyone to "dope up, drop out and give up". He's encouraging people to set up alcohol-free social clubs, creating a quality-controlled market for honest growers to sell to. No violence, no fly spray on the herb. The customer can buy the less dangerous drug (according to drug experts Professor Nutt and Professor Sellman) without associating with outlaw paramilitaries.
You'd rather have the state spying on Maaori and punishing them for a non-violent crime than leaving them alone to create autonomous social space? I think your state-funded "Reefer Madness" induced prejudices against cannabis users have made you blind to reason on this issue.
Ngaa mihi aroha
Strypey