The police dude they had, and the law professor expert, did give some
examples on why the two issues could not be compared. But it was a pile of
bollocks if you ask me. Besides the fact that marijuana should not even be
illegal, it's horrible to think that writing about it or selling books about
growing it is also illegal.... unless you're a large chain store of course.
I'm boycotting the law until they set things right.
YES!
Wheather it ishould be leagal or not is not the point.
To me I might as well smoke a smelly sock all the difference a drug
makes.
It just makes me sick! literally.
I prefer being alive to being a dopey Zombie.
The fact is some drugs are against the law and the law must be obeyed.
That Store has an owner or owners or a manager or company directer
that is responcible for what and what not to sell.
What yopu saw on close up was nothing less than blatant whitewash
corruption.
Christ's love
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Perhaps we should also ban murder stories, books about cannibals, and how
about all this Vampire stuff that seems to be around today?
Vampires may be the Undead and thus immune to HIV, but let's hope our young
people aren't tempted to try the same stuff.
But keep "Dracula", it's over 100 years old and still probably the best
vampire story around.
And what about "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" ?
Quiet! You'll give the moral do-gooder brigade ideas.
So in light of this, an undercover cop should go into Whitcoulls and
specifically ask for a book on growing pot. If the assistant
recommends and sells a book that so does, then the assistant can be
potted under drug laws.
First: I think the laws against drugs are a pile of unjust crap, so I don't
think anyone should be prosecuted for possessing, or even selling drugs, or
writing about them.
Second: even if drugs were still illegal, I don't think publications
describing their use, production, or effects should be illegal to write,
possess, or sell.
Third: with both drugs, and publications describing how to produce and hide
drugs from the law, being illegal, then I agree that it seems flimsy and
artificial to discriminate between a one-man hydroponics store, and a large
chain store like Whitcoulls - or other online retailers. The arguments for
their being a difference in the sales techniques and intentions between the
hydroponics guy, and the Whitcoulls website and salesman seemed contrived to
me.
Solution: decriminalise drugs; or at the very least, make freedom of speech
important.
Was that you they arrested?
By the spellings, you're already on drugs: <marujauna>, <Whitcoulles>,
<responcibility>?
God The Son's Blessings obviously don't help your cognitiive cells.
I think you mean "cognative".
> By the spellings, you're already on drugs: <marujauna>, <Whitcoulles>,
> <responcibility>?
>
> God The Son's Blessings obviously don't help your cognitiive cells.
PKB Hoist by your own petard you dumb prick.
Nothing like an idiot trying to correct another idiot. LOL
Er, no! <Cogna-> relates to birth or descent or relationship by
language group.
<Cogni-> relates to knowing or perceiving or learning, i.e. using yer
brain.
Your chosen standard responses as name calling certainly don't help
your own published image.
It is YOU that criticised CK for bad spelling. Right?
How do you spell 'cognitiive' again?
As I say, PKB and hoist by your own petard. LOL
Unfortunately, Peter K, you cannot boycott the law.
>
> > So in light of this, an undercover cop should go into Whitcoulls and
> > specifically ask for a book on growing pot. If the assistant
> > recommends and sells a book that so does, then the assistant can be
> > potted under drug laws.
>
> First: I think the laws against drugs are a pile of unjust crap, so I don't
> think anyone should be prosecuted for possessing, or even selling drugs, or
> writing about them.
The answer here is to lobby Parliament.
>
> Second: even if drugs were still illegal, I don't think publications
> describing their use, production, or effects should be illegal to write,
> possess, or sell.
Again, it is a matter of the law. There are two aspects here:
1. The police can submit such a publication to the tribunal for a
ruling that it is 'objectionable' in which case its sale is banned.
2. If the book is not 'objectionable' then anyone can browse the
bookshop, take the book to the counter and purchase it lawfully. The
problem arises when the customer specifically asks for advice on
growing pot and is then sold a 'howto' book on growing pot. Same goes
for lights. The powerful lights 'Switched On Gardners' sell are
intended for stadiums, night trots courses, very tall lighting towers,
very high stud industrial buildings etc. They are four or more times
powerful than ordinary streetlights on motorways. An ordinary person
just has no use for such lights except growing pot. As the cops said,
you do not use such lighting for growing lettuces hydroponically.
You live in Antarctica?
--
Duncan.
To right you don't.
And this is the reason I have brought this up.
I bought a kit set from a Trademe advertisement.
from a farmer.
Then found a little extension which is better for the watercress and
rocket I grow.
When I went to the specialty store. I found that it seemed to be
geared up predominantly for the drug grower and I felt this was a
great shame because hydroponics can be very easy fun.
Christ's love
Freedom of speech. From time to time it needs fighting for.
The arrest may have been for something else than the selling of the books.
Care to follow this case and report it. Good on you.
> Did you spot that John Bilderbeck describes himself as a "Publisher" in the
> electoral Roll as well?
And you claim to be a writer of a book.
What's your point?.
>Nobody wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 12:38:19 +1200, "WorkHard" <w...@workhard.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Nobody wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> By the spellings, you're already on drugs: <marujauna>,
>>>> <Whitcoulles>, <responcibility>?
>>>>
>>>> God The Son's Blessings obviously don't help your cognitiive cells.
>>>
>>> PKB Hoist by your own petard you dumb prick.
>>>
>> Your chosen standard responses as name calling certainly don't help
>> your own published image.
>
>It is YOU that criticised CK for bad spelling. Right?
>
But I never called anyone names, which is your specialty...or is that
speciality.
You might argue with yourself over that.
>How do you spell 'cognitiive' again?
Same as you just did.
Aye, aye, sir!
> But I never called anyone names, which is your specialty...or is that
> speciality.
>
> You might argue with yourself over that.
>
>> How do you spell 'cognitiive' again?
>
> Same as you just did.
With two i's? LOL You really are a dumb prick. Can't even acknowledge your
mistake. Better to run away and use another straw man, eh? That makes you a
coward as well.
GOTCHA!
You did a little selective eiditng in replying to that last piece:
QUOTE:
>>But I never called anyone names, which is your specialty...or is that
>>speciality.
>You might argue with yourself over that.
>>How do you spell 'cognitiive' again?
>Same as you just did.
>Aye, aye, sir!
>
>As I say, PKB and hoist by your own petard. LOL
Heh heh. I did acknowledge my own mistake... by writing "i i, sir."
No sense of humo(u)r.
I'd tell you to GFY, but your puerile tumescence wouldn't reach that
far.
Missed that.
> No sense of humo(u)r.
Sure I have, it's real funny seeing the likes of you squirm one way then
another.
> I'd tell you to GFY, but your puerile tumescence wouldn't reach that
> far.
Projecting won't get you anywhere. Except further up your own backside.
Actually, in NZ English it would be "really funny".
<Real funny> would reflect lazy North American lack of knowledge of
adverbs.
>> I'd tell you to GFY, but your puerile tumescence wouldn't reach that
>> far.
>
>Projecting won't get you anywhere. Except further up your own backside.
>
No, no , sir! I wuz instructing you to go investigate the erogenous
zone in yer own backyard, even if you aren't able to reach with the
Small Weeny.
Fingers still get there... or another male.
<chortle>
LOL What a stupid pedantic twat you are.
I'll speak and write how I please, not how some jumped up fuckwit like you
says.
Get over it.
>>> I'd tell you to GFY, but your puerile tumescence wouldn't reach that
>>> far.
>>
>> Projecting won't get you anywhere. Except further up your own
>> backside.
>>
>
> No, no , sir! I wuz instructing you to go investigate the erogenous
> zone in yer own backyard, even if you aren't able to reach with the
> Small Weeny.
>
> Fingers still get there... or another male.
>
> <chortle>
Chortle???
Scooter. Scoot back into your filthy little cess-pit where you belong.
There's nothing for me to get over.
It's you who continues to advertise your personality's true colours by
insisting on hurling names.
I imagine yourself raging apoplectic that I refuse to join your
labelling exercises.
>
>>>> I'd tell you to GFY, but your puerile tumescence wouldn't reach that
>>>> far.
>>>
>>> Projecting won't get you anywhere. Except further up your own
>>> backside.
>>>
>>
>> No, no , sir! I wuz instructing you to go investigate the erogenous
>> zone in yer own backyard, even if you aren't able to reach with the
>> Small Weeny.
>>
>> Fingers still get there... or another male.
>>
>> <chortle>
>
>Chortle???
Nice word, isn't it? Transmits exactly the abandon I find your
diatribes deserve.
Well you chose your nym. Couldn't be more apt.
<chortle>
All the insults you chaps are posting are great fun! Carry on.
Now I'm galumphing off.
LOL