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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
A very stupid boy
A very stupid boy, whose name I will not disclose did this: drew an Aboriginal flag in a toilet bowl and took a photo of himself pissing on it.
This boy is clearly fucked up. It is people like this boy who are ruining the world's chances of pure equality and world peace. It is people like him who I hate. This boy is ruining our lives, he is ruining hope. It is people like him who make me feel violently ill. It is people like him who should die.
This action that this boy did is sickening, it is dispicible, I hope he leads a very miserable life and finds happiness in nothing. The only path that he will take is destruction.
This boy tries to act mature, but clearly is not. This boy is uneducated. This boy is socially unaware. This boy, is racist.
This boy is clearly fucked up. It is people like this boy who are ruining the world's chances of pure equality and world peace. It is people like him who I hate. This boy is ruining our lives, he is ruining hope. It is people like him who make me feel violently ill. It is people like him who should die.
This action that this boy did is sickening, it is dispicible, I hope he leads a very miserable life and finds happiness in nothing. The only path that he will take is destruction.
This boy tries to act mature, but clearly is not. This boy is uneducated. This boy is socially unaware. This boy, is racist.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Basquiat
I am not a black artist, I am a artist.
SAMO as an end to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy
SAMO as an escape clause
SAMO as an end to bogus pseudo intellectual. My mouth, therefore an error. Plush safe...he think.
Water
This photograph is so intriguing/captivating/stimulating...the general wickedness of this photograph is insane!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
St Elmo's Fire
Had a nice morning watching St Elmo's Fire for the katrillionth time today, never gets old.
Friday, June 12, 2009
We should legalise marijuana --debate
Good evening ladies and gentleman. Tonight’s topic is a controversial and important topic that ought to be discussed. There are very few negatives to legalizing marijuana but there are a multitude of reasons as to why marijuana should be legalised across the world. Taneil has just discussed the ethical reasons with you and I will now be talking about the practical side of this issue.
There are 3 major practical considerations that make this proposal, that marijuana be legalised, rational and desirable.
Firstly I will be discussing the positive attributes that marijuana can offer to people with serious health and pain issues. Secondly, I will compare the detrimental effects of alcohol consumption and tobacco use—both legal drugs—to the use of marijuana. And lastly I will look at what legalisation of marijuana might mean for the crime rates in Australia and how the government will be able to handle, and perhaps even benefit from, the legalisation of marijuana.
So, firstly, from a legal and social perspective, marijuana has been prohibited and considered in a negative light in our western culture for several centuries. But therapeutic marijuana consumption has been administered for about 4000 years, for health benefits and general well-being. Whilst researching for this debate I discovered that if marijuana were legal, it could benefit more than 20 different illnesses, including: Alzeimer’s disease, arthritis, migraines, epilepsy, hepatitis C and the list goes on. Recent scientific investigation and research has successfully uncovered and proven several properties apparent within marijuana that have the ability to cure, prevent or improve various diseases and injuries. But instead of using this all-natural, grown in the ground, earth plant, we’re spending trillions of dollars on synthesizing new, lab concocted, chemicals to help these diseases. Wouldn’t you think that if you could go natural with a herb that has been tried and tested for thousands of years, then it would be the better option? In Australia there is generally a negative stigma associated with marijuana; but why? The mindset about drugs would be completely different if we didn't have the label of "drugs" in the first place… somehow, in Australia, marijuana has become wrongly categorised under the same label as dangerous, manufactured chemicals. It is a plant that has for centuries been used because of its natural capacity to administer medicinal aid. How come the Native American Indians have been able to handle marijuana without major side-effects for hundreds of years? Unfortunately, the growth of the profit motivated pharmaceutical industry along with the sensationalisation of marijuana as a ‘drug’, especially during the ‘hippie’ era, has muddied the waters. In popular Western culture, the true understanding of marijuana has been distorted. People forget the benefits that this plant could have if regulated and used properly. In short, if used moderately, marijuana can have positive health effects, this is something the media, strongly supported by the pharmaceutical giants, has neglected to inform people… we must remember that therapeutic marijuana has been administered for thousands of years without much harm at all, but a whole heap of good. It is the preferred method of pain management for many people suffering arthritis and other illnesses which require regular pain relief.
Now, ladies and gentleman, on to my second argument. It is a fact that people will use marijuana recreationally, as well as therapeutically – they have for centuries. So why is it then that something far less harmful than other substances is illegal while others are not? Marijuana should be legalised. The health impact of any drug depends on how it’s used, who’s using it and under what circumstances. Our team does acknowledge that the misuse of cannabis can lead to mental health issues, but research shows it is in fact not as serious as long-term alcohol and tobacco abuse. It has been endlessly proven that alcohol tends to make users more aggressive and belligerent, while marijuana on the other hand tends to make people more relaxed and tranquil. Alcohol is more clearly related to many health issues whereas marijuana is not. We all know that alcohol causes such things including, liver disease, stroke, alcohol poisoning, kidney disease and the list goes on ladies and gentleman! Alcohol is one of the most toxic drugs, and using just 10 times what one would use to get that ‘desired feeling’ leads to death. On the other hand marijuana is the least toxic drug. It requires a thousand times the dose one would use to get that ‘desired effect’ to lead to death. Well, ‘a thousand’ is the theoretical amount because there has never been a recorded case of a marijuana overdose, but over 15,000 people die a year from alcohol poisoning. It is also proven that long-term marijuana use is less harmful then long term alcohol use. As the Australian Drug Foundation stated: “The most common drugs used for recreational purpose include alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceuticals (pills). They are also the drugs that cause the greatest harm in Australia”. And as Dr David Caldicott (an emergency doctor and recognised drug and alcohol expert) stated: “Alcohol is unequivocally the upmost dangerous drug being consumed in Australia today”. What can we dissect from these two statements and the above information ladies and gentleman? THAT ALCOHOL, not marijuana, is the MOST dangerous drug in today’s society, and people should be more wary of it rather than weed. Why should alcohol be legal when marijuana isn’t? Ladies & gentlemen, marijuana, without any doubt, should be legalised.
And lastly, for my third and final argument, legalising marijuana would simply lessen the crime rate on Australian streets. How so? The government would be taking the illegal marijuana industry right out of criminals’ hands. Instead of having to go to some filthy street corner to buy marijuana and risk being persuaded or abused into trying anything deadly, you could go to a cafe and buy a regulated, safer amount. The notion of sensible and tactical strategies could be employed, the tactical strategies being that the government can easily regulate usage of marijuana. In legalising marijuana you would reduce the illegal underground drug trafficking trade, and be able to regulate peoples’ usage. As my first speaker said, Amsterdam is a key example of regulated marijuana use. And the statistical data from the Netherlands certifies that young people of a median age of 28, only 16% have even smoked marijuana, thus widely accessible marijuana loses its appeal. And think about this, making cannabis legal would lessen crime rates in that you wouldn’t have perfectly normal people who just so happen to smoke marijuana every now and again taking up time, money and resources. For example minor offenders doing jail time because they can’t afford to pay the ridiculous price of a fine, thus adding to our crime rate statistics.
So in conclusion ladies and gentleman, as you can see, marijuana should be legalised all over the world. Not only for its therapeutic advances which are significant, but why should a less toxic substance be illegal when alcohol is not! It will also remove the ‘criminal’ element from marijuana use, so people who choose to just consume marijuana are not forced to deal with illegal drug dealers who are, in most cases, often selling more than just marijuana. As with all ‘soft’ drugs such as alcohol and tobacco, when used in moderation marijuana is a reasonably harmless drug. Even when abused, research indicates it is not as harmful as alcohol. Marijuana should NOT be confused with illegal substances such as Ice, heroin, cocaine, or ecstasy, and our laws should therefore not put it into the same ‘illegal substance’ category.
There are 3 major practical considerations that make this proposal, that marijuana be legalised, rational and desirable.
Firstly I will be discussing the positive attributes that marijuana can offer to people with serious health and pain issues. Secondly, I will compare the detrimental effects of alcohol consumption and tobacco use—both legal drugs—to the use of marijuana. And lastly I will look at what legalisation of marijuana might mean for the crime rates in Australia and how the government will be able to handle, and perhaps even benefit from, the legalisation of marijuana.
So, firstly, from a legal and social perspective, marijuana has been prohibited and considered in a negative light in our western culture for several centuries. But therapeutic marijuana consumption has been administered for about 4000 years, for health benefits and general well-being. Whilst researching for this debate I discovered that if marijuana were legal, it could benefit more than 20 different illnesses, including: Alzeimer’s disease, arthritis, migraines, epilepsy, hepatitis C and the list goes on. Recent scientific investigation and research has successfully uncovered and proven several properties apparent within marijuana that have the ability to cure, prevent or improve various diseases and injuries. But instead of using this all-natural, grown in the ground, earth plant, we’re spending trillions of dollars on synthesizing new, lab concocted, chemicals to help these diseases. Wouldn’t you think that if you could go natural with a herb that has been tried and tested for thousands of years, then it would be the better option? In Australia there is generally a negative stigma associated with marijuana; but why? The mindset about drugs would be completely different if we didn't have the label of "drugs" in the first place… somehow, in Australia, marijuana has become wrongly categorised under the same label as dangerous, manufactured chemicals. It is a plant that has for centuries been used because of its natural capacity to administer medicinal aid. How come the Native American Indians have been able to handle marijuana without major side-effects for hundreds of years? Unfortunately, the growth of the profit motivated pharmaceutical industry along with the sensationalisation of marijuana as a ‘drug’, especially during the ‘hippie’ era, has muddied the waters. In popular Western culture, the true understanding of marijuana has been distorted. People forget the benefits that this plant could have if regulated and used properly. In short, if used moderately, marijuana can have positive health effects, this is something the media, strongly supported by the pharmaceutical giants, has neglected to inform people… we must remember that therapeutic marijuana has been administered for thousands of years without much harm at all, but a whole heap of good. It is the preferred method of pain management for many people suffering arthritis and other illnesses which require regular pain relief.
Now, ladies and gentleman, on to my second argument. It is a fact that people will use marijuana recreationally, as well as therapeutically – they have for centuries. So why is it then that something far less harmful than other substances is illegal while others are not? Marijuana should be legalised. The health impact of any drug depends on how it’s used, who’s using it and under what circumstances. Our team does acknowledge that the misuse of cannabis can lead to mental health issues, but research shows it is in fact not as serious as long-term alcohol and tobacco abuse. It has been endlessly proven that alcohol tends to make users more aggressive and belligerent, while marijuana on the other hand tends to make people more relaxed and tranquil. Alcohol is more clearly related to many health issues whereas marijuana is not. We all know that alcohol causes such things including, liver disease, stroke, alcohol poisoning, kidney disease and the list goes on ladies and gentleman! Alcohol is one of the most toxic drugs, and using just 10 times what one would use to get that ‘desired feeling’ leads to death. On the other hand marijuana is the least toxic drug. It requires a thousand times the dose one would use to get that ‘desired effect’ to lead to death. Well, ‘a thousand’ is the theoretical amount because there has never been a recorded case of a marijuana overdose, but over 15,000 people die a year from alcohol poisoning. It is also proven that long-term marijuana use is less harmful then long term alcohol use. As the Australian Drug Foundation stated: “The most common drugs used for recreational purpose include alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceuticals (pills). They are also the drugs that cause the greatest harm in Australia”. And as Dr David Caldicott (an emergency doctor and recognised drug and alcohol expert) stated: “Alcohol is unequivocally the upmost dangerous drug being consumed in Australia today”. What can we dissect from these two statements and the above information ladies and gentleman? THAT ALCOHOL, not marijuana, is the MOST dangerous drug in today’s society, and people should be more wary of it rather than weed. Why should alcohol be legal when marijuana isn’t? Ladies & gentlemen, marijuana, without any doubt, should be legalised.
And lastly, for my third and final argument, legalising marijuana would simply lessen the crime rate on Australian streets. How so? The government would be taking the illegal marijuana industry right out of criminals’ hands. Instead of having to go to some filthy street corner to buy marijuana and risk being persuaded or abused into trying anything deadly, you could go to a cafe and buy a regulated, safer amount. The notion of sensible and tactical strategies could be employed, the tactical strategies being that the government can easily regulate usage of marijuana. In legalising marijuana you would reduce the illegal underground drug trafficking trade, and be able to regulate peoples’ usage. As my first speaker said, Amsterdam is a key example of regulated marijuana use. And the statistical data from the Netherlands certifies that young people of a median age of 28, only 16% have even smoked marijuana, thus widely accessible marijuana loses its appeal. And think about this, making cannabis legal would lessen crime rates in that you wouldn’t have perfectly normal people who just so happen to smoke marijuana every now and again taking up time, money and resources. For example minor offenders doing jail time because they can’t afford to pay the ridiculous price of a fine, thus adding to our crime rate statistics.
So in conclusion ladies and gentleman, as you can see, marijuana should be legalised all over the world. Not only for its therapeutic advances which are significant, but why should a less toxic substance be illegal when alcohol is not! It will also remove the ‘criminal’ element from marijuana use, so people who choose to just consume marijuana are not forced to deal with illegal drug dealers who are, in most cases, often selling more than just marijuana. As with all ‘soft’ drugs such as alcohol and tobacco, when used in moderation marijuana is a reasonably harmless drug. Even when abused, research indicates it is not as harmful as alcohol. Marijuana should NOT be confused with illegal substances such as Ice, heroin, cocaine, or ecstasy, and our laws should therefore not put it into the same ‘illegal substance’ category.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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