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I woke up this morning with a headache, and the only thing I could think about was Olympic athletes taking drugs. After all, why do we have such a problem with it. If elite athletes decide to take drugs and do really cool stuff that we can watch in our own homes isn’t this all […]
On Saturday I had an article in the Dom ranting about how harm minimisation was a dumb goal – as there are benefits from the consumption of drugs. This argument has been on the internet a million times (see these two searches for example), so there is no need to rehash it here. Originally, the […]
When this article appeared in Stuff it seemed to want to give the impression that drugs = bad. That is good for it. However, when I read it it simply made me think that we should legalise said drugs. Here is why. Ecstasy users are unwittingly taking other potentially more dangerous substances including P, as […]
Stumbling and Mumbling discusses the seemingly strange fact that public opinion is so heavily against the legalisation of drugs that pose a lower social cost than some already legal drugs. Now the legalisation of drugs is an issue we have discussed at length here ( ). Now if society is fully informed of the costs […]
That appears to be the suggestion of David Grimmond from Infometrics according to this article (also found here). How do I feel about this suggestion, well I agree. Legalise it, that way we can apply standard quality controls, pump out education and information, and place externality taxes on it. Worst case scenario: The externality tax […]
In a recent article on Cannabis seizures the police said: Based on the New Zealand Drug Harm Index, it was estimated that $379 million worth of social harm had been prevented by the operation So I looked up the drug harm index and found a release from BERL that stated: Cannabis is estimated to cause […]