What is this massive increase of usage you assume would happen? All drugs could be legalised without offering them for sale with minimal checks like alcohol currently is.
I’m not sure there are huge numbers of kiwis just itching to get a meth habit, if only it were legal.
Why would you want sickness to spread at schools? This will get kids sick, it will get their teachers sick, kids will take it home to parents and get them sick. What’s the impact to education but also to the wider workforce and productivity?
I talked to a farmer on hill land about this, and he said they have to buy cows that have grown up on hill land otherwise they can’t handle it and invariably end up a bloated carcass in the local stream. That still does happen sometimes, in which case they just leave it there to decompose and pollute the stream because it’s too much work to remove it. Farmers, eh?
***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 ***...
Among the list of organisations that have been invited to apply are organisations associated with projects that would destroy a pristine mountaintop and rip up the seafloor....
Jones is a controversial force in the new Government, with his nakedly pro-mining stance criticised for being anti-environment. His meetings with industry heavyweights, including those in the commercial fishing sector, have led to accusations of conflicts of interest....
My car insurance through Trade Me (Tower) is about to renew and the new cost is 100% higher. Any recommendations for a new insurer or are we powerless to prevent these increases?
"He’s blaming the boards and principals and schools for the problem we have, yet he’s the one that says, ‘Listen we are going to cut lunches’. How the hell is that going to get people into school? He says, ‘We are going to cut back the public transport subsidies’. How the hell is that going to get people into...
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
Alcohol causing 20 times the harm of meth, police float tighter regulation (www.newshub.co.nz)
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'Don't keep people home': Govt to give public health advice around sending sick children to school - Seymour (www.newshub.co.nz)
Why would you want sickness to spread at schools? This will get kids sick, it will get their teachers sick, kids will take it home to parents and get them sick. What’s the impact to education but also to the wider workforce and productivity?
'Right in the firing line': New lab-grown milk substitute could threaten NZ's dairy sector (www.newshub.co.nz)
Reserve Bank considers the digital dollar: 'NZ's money must innovate to stay relevant ' (www.rnz.co.nz)
Loser (lemmy.world)
The People Deliberately Killing Facebook (www.wheresyoured.at)
'Devastating': Newshub set to close in June, staff told (www.1news.co.nz)
Govt to convert 35 state schools to charter schools (www.newshub.co.nz)
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Overhauling our drug policies (www.rnz.co.nz)
***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 ***...
Government forced to release its ‘top secret’ fast-track list (www.forestandbird.org.nz)
Among the list of organisations that have been invited to apply are organisations associated with projects that would destroy a pristine mountaintop and rip up the seafloor....
Jones’ undeclared dinner had two more mining industry attendees (newsroom.co.nz)
Jones is a controversial force in the new Government, with his nakedly pro-mining stance criticised for being anti-environment. His meetings with industry heavyweights, including those in the commercial fishing sector, have led to accusations of conflicts of interest....
Car Insurance 100% rise
My car insurance through Trade Me (Tower) is about to renew and the new cost is 100% higher. Any recommendations for a new insurer or are we powerless to prevent these increases?
'As useful as tits on a bull': Principal slams Govt's truancy plan, calls for cross-party action (www.newshub.co.nz)
"He’s blaming the boards and principals and schools for the problem we have, yet he’s the one that says, ‘Listen we are going to cut lunches’. How the hell is that going to get people into school? He says, ‘We are going to cut back the public transport subsidies’. How the hell is that going to get people into...
Transpower disconnects some North Island power assets due to solar storm (www.rnz.co.nz)
Advocates attack removal of climate change from government's draft transport policy (www.rnz.co.nz)
“The 60s have called Simeon Brown and they want their transport plan back.”
'A pittance': Police officers fire back at pay rise offer (www.rnz.co.nz)
Adrian Newey reveals he’s ‘seriously considering changing teams’ as he opens up on future F1 plans (www.formula1.com)
joyous skittering of the least-bird (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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