Pseudoephedrine - third reading

Well, Gary already said his piece, but I stumbled across the broadcast... Takutai Tarsh Kemp was speaking, and sounding very similar to Hūhana from the Greens. - My view: Missing the point. P already exists, and I think David Seymour is right that there's very little evidence that this would increase P usage.

I mean, maybe, but it's over 15 years since that was a viable method of home cooking and I doubt that many people are keen to go back to that model of meth production. If I was TPM, I'd focus on those 501 gangsters and how they're fuelling the trade. -

I do think that Māori people get way too bogged down in whatever drug is being portrayed as the evil du jour. From a really conservative Māori perspective, everything other than water is a drug, and that's also true from a conservative European view.

Realistically, though, the vast majority of the population use a variety of legal and illegal drugs to help them cope with their functions. I've met people that class themselves as functional meth users.

I'd also add at this point that (yes) pure water consumption can also kill you. It's really not a black-and-white issue; it's all to do with people blaming drugs for things that are probably symptoms of other problems within a group or community. - So, yeah, suffice it to say that Gary and I aren't psyched with the Greens/TPM view on drugs as expressed via this issue. 👋🏻