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Overhauling our drug policies (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn't come from stoners and the strung out - it's backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn't work ***

AKA common sense

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but that's not forever. Big shifts like this don't always happen over night, they often take years of groundwork so you gotta dare to dream in the meantime.

Sidenote, this govt being one term is entirely possible. It's where labour/nz first was heading before covid and they decided to actually act and materially do things.

I think we'll see an increasingly oscillating political landscape as our various crises pile up (climate change, cost of living, infrastructure deficit), and govts fail to actually do anything to address them in any meaningful way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yup true, true