Mike Sabin has come a long way since his MethCon days (and a con it certainly was);
But he's still stuck in a 20th century paradigm where there is a single 'just say no' approach to "drugs", as a general category. One that nobody would accept if it included 3 of the most dangerous recreational drugs; alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical opioids.
#podcasts #NZHerald #TheElephant #drugs #DrugLawReform #MikeSabin #MethCon
Maybe it's time that professional journalists in Aotearoa (NZ) started doing some targeted surveillance of privately-owned #SecretPolice forces like Thompson & Clark:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-04-2018/why-have-thompson-clark-been-allowed-to-keep-spying-on-us-in-your-name/
This could also include #WilsonSecurity (who run both parking buildings and refugee camps), the various ex-cop run drug-testing and "education" companies like #MethCon and so on?
The list of state agencies using these private investigators to spy on lawful protesters continues to grow, and it is an assault on democracy, writes Frances Mountier. I was distressed to learn last month that a government owned company, Southern Response, had been using private investigators Tho
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