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Happy St Patrick’s day all. On this fine day, there is a song I’d like us all to remember – Seven deadly sins. My favourite part of the song goes: Some say that drinking’s a sin But a gargle is fine now and then For drinking has been in this world For ever and ever […]
Via the Herald (ht Education Directions): The Illicit Drug Monitoring System report found the price – commonly regarded as the best measure of police success against the drug – had increased each year. Interesting. So they use ever rising prices as a measure of ever rising success. This is weird on two grounds: We are […]
Apologises in advance for this heavily value ladden post. I am touching on infinitely busy (again), I’m very tired, and I’ve been listening to “too much” Irish music. As a result, I’m posting what is in my head rather than proactively trying to find an economic issue to write “objectively” about – as this is […]
So I see that pseudoephedrine based medication is being made prescription only, and possibly even banned in the “war against P”. This policy has broad-based support in parliament, with both National and Labour supporting it. And like all policies with broad based support it is bad policy.
Kiwiblog’s link to a new economics blog called Progressive Turmoil got me thinking. I now count 12 14 economics blogs in New Zealand that are still going (list at bottom – note all the blogs I have linked to have a lot of economics opinions in them, even if this isn’t their primary description. To […]
The Liberal Conspiracy has interesting article on the drug decriminalisation in Portugal. Two highlights for me. The opening paragraph: The right predicted Bad Things: Drug use would explode, tourists would travel from far and wide to get high on the streets of Lisbon, law and order would collapse, and people would start riding around in […]