Thread: Caller Mike

Originally Posted by systolic

There is no need at all for a test for levels in your system. It's illegal to smoke it, so any level should be a failed test. Driving, walking, working onsite, shooting, anywhere.

And if you're 'passive smoking' and get caught with a failed test, you are hanging around with druggies and probably shouldn't have a gun licence.

I'd say, legalise drugs (morphine, opium, cannabis, cocaine). Not methamphetamine - no one would use it if quality cocaine is available.

Have them sold from state outlets, 75% of tax collected above GST to be ring fenced for drug addiction treatments to avoid the moral abyss that is the current state with government alcohol tax revenue.

OK there will be some harm to the individuals choosing to use drugs, but I do wonder if there really would be additional harm. There always will be individuals who choose to self destruct. But let them do so without becoming burglars or having to sell their bodies.

As drug use automatically bars people from working for their upkeep (urine drug screens commonplace nowadays), it should automatically mean that WINZ treats users as non-jobseekers and consequently refuses to support them in their choice - unless on treatment.

Employers would likely move to a system looking at drug levels rather than just the detection of a substance.

Benefit to society will be that gangs and a wide range of criminals will have their precious incomes removed, drop in burglaries etc.

We can stop locking our doors, and cease worrying no matter how many Kiwi criminals, gang members etc that Australia decide to export back to us. They will just become harmless Kiwi motorcycle clubs ---- but with fewer Harleys, more Hondas.