***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn’t come from stoners and the strung out - it’s backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn’t work ***

AKA common sense

  • Xcf456@lemmy.nz
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    6 months ago

    Yes, but don’t let the National party be the limit of thinking about what’s possible. They won’t be in govt forever

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      6 months ago

      It is very rare to only get one term. So we’re looking at another 6 years, minimum.

      It’s going to feel like forever 😉

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        6 months ago

        Yeah but that’s not forever. Big shifts like this don’t always happen over night, they often take years of groundwork so you gotta dare to dream in the meantime.

        Sidenote, this govt being one term is entirely possible. It’s where labour/nz first was heading before covid and they decided to actually act and materially do things.

        I think we’ll see an increasingly oscillating political landscape as our various crises pile up (climate change, cost of living, infrastructure deficit), and govts fail to actually do anything to address them in any meaningful way.