As countries realise the harm and devastation from the ill-conceived regime of prohibition and recognise drug use should never be a crime issue, - beware of embracing drug 'use' as a health issue. It isn't. Drug problems yes, but not drug use.

Are you interested in exploring different perspectives in the way we see, understand and tackle 'drugs'? Can you give the issue a few minutes of your time? Great!👍 You might want a *coffee* while your read: threadreaderapp.com/thread/96841...

Are you interested in exploring different perspectives in the way we see, understand and tackle 'drugs'? Can you give the issue a few minutes of your time? Great!👍 You might want a *coffee* while your read: threadreaderapp.com/thread/96841...

Please help us out! Sign our Parliamentary PETITION to repeal the 1975 MDA. We need your support 🙏 Anyone can sign petitions.parliament.nz/0ab5ed2a-54c...

When people make arguments to "legalise drug 'x' because it's relatively safe" - it makes no sense - it's as if they are agreeing that more risky drugs are best prohibited??? Seriously? Prohibition only increases risk considerably. The regime needs to be challenged!

When people make arguments to "legalise drug 'x' because it's relatively safe" - it makes no sense - it's as if they are agreeing that more risky drugs are best prohibited??? Seriously? Prohibition only increases risk considerably. The regime needs to be challenged!

Please help us out! Sign our Parliamentary PETITION to repeal the 1975 MDA. We need your support 🙏 Anyone can sign petitions.parliament.nz/0ab5ed2a-54c...

Anyone can sign - so please do and encourage others too as well - petitions.parliament.nz/0ab5ed2a-54c... Many Thanks!!

Laws need to be based on science, evidence and experience - please sign our petition for reform and recirculate! Thank you so much!👍

Roadside drug testing will lead to more switching to drugs that don't stay in your system for as long as cannabis does (weeks even months). Unknown drugs that may carry far more risk. New synthetic drugs are a by-product of prohibition enforcement. #EndProhibition www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Anyone can sign - so please do and encourage others too as well - petitions.parliament.nz/0ab5ed2a-54c... Many Thanks!!

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

A cartoon script I put together for @hrca.bsky.social Correlation is not causation. Drug presence is not drug impairment. Our drug policies and laws must be based on evidence - not hunch, not fear, not ideology, nor sending out the 'right' messages!

Truth...

"We will blow you out of existence ... Each boat we sink carries drugs that would kill more than 25,000 Americans." Amid Trump's ludicrous claims as his Caribbean killings continue, the US is further destabilizing the region, reports @tganeva.bsky.social:

A cartoon script I put together for @hrca.bsky.social Correlation is not causation. Drug presence is not drug impairment. Our drug policies and laws must be based on evidence - not hunch, not fear, not ideology, nor sending out the 'right' messages!

Our approach to drugs under prohibition has been informed by propaganda, prejudice and hunch - with devastating consequences:

Have we become immune to the hypocrisy and contradiction? It's crazy.

Julian Buchanan: @julianbuchanan.bsky.social Brandon Hutchison: hrca.nz Kirsten Gibson: @kirstengibson.bsky.social -------------------------------------- Filter: @filtermag.bsky.social Donate to Filter: app.moonclerk.com/pay/1lw9e26i...

"[G]iven the severe, artificial and needless inflation of risks around prohibited drugs, we would argue that referring to overdose fatalities as 'drug-related deaths' deflects from the truth." "These deaths [..] are better described as 'prohibition-related deaths.'" #USA #Policing #Drugs

My latest article co-authored with @hrca.bsky.social colleagues for International Overdose Awareness Day #IOAD2025 explaining why referring to overdose as a drug related death is misleading - most of these deaths are prohibition related deaths! filtermag.org/overdose-pro...

In today’s Weekend Herald #nzpol

My latest article co-authored with @hrca.bsky.social colleagues for International Overdose Awareness Day #IOAD2025 explaining why referring to overdose as a drug related death is misleading - most of these deaths are prohibition related deaths! filtermag.org/overdose-pro...

Have we become immune to the hypocrisy and contradiction? It's crazy.

The rich robbing the poor like medieval times - just far more organised with nobody able to escape their pillaging. It's well out of control.

Interview - digging deeper to explore: 1. The damage from decades of institutionalised propaganda about 'drugs'; 2. Risk & regulation; 3. Examine the implications and issues of legalisation 4. Consider strategies for reform. youtu.be/FlCu5-SONXc?...

Interview - digging deeper to explore: 1. The damage from decades of institutionalised propaganda about 'drugs'; 2. Risk & regulation; 3. Examine the implications and issues of legalisation 4. Consider strategies for reform. youtu.be/FlCu5-SONXc?...

It's a brutal and despicable drug apartheid.

Let us stand together. Don't be duped by the war monger$$$$$$$ They invaded and bombed Iraq falsely claiming they had 'weapons on mass destruction' - backed up by a dodgy dossier simply compiled from various sources from the internet!

🇩🇪: Bei obiger Einordnung waren @docsteinmetz.bsky.social und @torrid-luna.bsky.social allerdings eine wertvolle Inspiration! 🇳🇿: And also once again many thanks to @julianbuchanan.bsky.social for the basic creation, the origin of which comes from him: julianbuchanan.wordpress.com

"Endlessly repeating the same pattern for 50 years and imagining that —on this occasion, unlike all the other occasions—the results of prohibitionist policies will somehow be different is, to be frank, utterly deluded.." @julianbuchanan.bsky.social #addiction #opioids #harmreduction

#NZPol The excellent Anne Salmond on the execrable Regulatory Standards Bill, aka Aotearoa’s Corporate Government Enablement Act. We must fight this nonsense in every way possible. It represents the very real end of the concept of ‘public good’. newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/14/a...

Sehr, sehr viele Mythen und Vorurteile werden auf folgender Seite zerlegt: drug-mythology.blogspot.com Ein großer Teil davon hat seine Basis von @julianbuchanan.bsky.social (ein ausgezeichneter Experte in diesen Bereich). Einige Mythen werden auch von anderen Experten & sonstigen Autoren behandelt.

It's quite pathetic how 'drugs' are blamed for almost anything, and the real causes and issues go unattended.

We talk about the risk of overdose, better funding for treatment, the need for more harm reduction, increases in drug related crime, guns, gangs and violence, record levels of methamphetamine use, drug seizures etc. but fail to mention the main culprit...

Milton Friedman was an American economist and statistician born in 1912. He received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis - he could see the nonsense of drug prohibition and the importance of legalisation. We should take note!

Why we argue for Drug Legalisation rather than Drug Decriminalisation:

"The fact is, state approved drugs pharmaceuticals, ethanol and tobacco, are significantly more harmful than many of the psychoactive drugs governments refuse to approve and regulate." #recoveryposse #harmreduction #alcohol @julianbuchanan.bsky.social julianbuchanan.medium.com/drug-prohibi...

I had the privilege of co-authoring this piece for filter with @julianbuchanan.bsky.social Prohibition is a failure

We respect Māori rights and seek to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi We are delighted to see this awesome response!

33 second video clip explaining Harm Reduction: www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxvMn...

"Like Pavlov’s dog, the programmed response to the latest 'drug crisis' will be calls for more invasive prohibition," write @kirstengibson.bsky.social & @julianbuchanan.bsky.social. "The drugs are already here to stay. Legalization is about moving them out of the shadows."

Truth.

Decisive. Of the almost 300,000 submissions accepted by the committee, Newsroom understands analysis has found about 8 percent support Act’s view, while 90 percent oppose the Treaty Principles Bill, and 2 percent have no strong view either way. #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol

Wonderful news - the NZ Select Committee delivers its report 40 days early and recommends scrapping Treaty Principles Bill amid massive opposition. The Committee received 307,000 submissions, 90% of them opposed the Bill - only a small minority of 8% supported the Bill. Great work Aotearoa👏👏👏

....and most harm comes from punitive drug policies - not the drugs!

Only a small minority who use prohibited substances get into harmful patterns of use, however, *everyone* who uses prohibited drugs is put at risk or harmed by punitive drug policies in one way or another. Prohibition harms are vast, needless & avoidable. Legalise & regulate the commercial supply