winsor68

No it doesn't make it all right...but this whole idea about those nasty druggies and poor me I can't even feel safe is more about society and it's sad attitudes to social problems then it is about drug users... My moral compass doesn't just switch off if something is legal...

Your opinion can change all it wants... it has been my experience that even the best trained medical minds can loose their grasp of reason when trying and failing to deal with a family member with a drug "habit"... opinions mean very little... results and evidence are legitimate markers of how best to handle the drug problem in society...and the evidence is that using law enforcement to try to adjust what is essentially mentally ill behaviour does not work...it makes the problem worse... Interesting fact... In Mackay Synthetic Cannabis has caused 3 deaths in the last year...this stuff was being legally sold... even my friends who own the corner shop were selling it... they got robbed by an armed offender of all this shit one night... All legal... at least 6 months before the first person died I had a chat to my friends at the shop...and warned them that it was just going to be a matter of time... but what could you really say...

I Then why would recommend not going alone to those areas?

Unlike you guys...i've really...and I mean literally...done exactly this... and I have to say... I never saw anyone who wasn't involved with it (as in a user) who had the slightest trouble in these areas... and never felt even the slightest bit threatened. It was the footballers and other binge drinkers who were the violent thugs and caused all the trouble... I kid you not...before they knocked the old places down and rebuilt them as yuppy sports bars before this century.... The Valley...West End...Story Bridge...all the so called "junky" areas.... were safer to walk around then walking to town in Mount Isa I can personally assure you.

The myth that doesn't die...

And people with limited intellects...and questionable morals.

Nah mate...they don't pay me a cent for anything.

At least his blinkers are gold plated...

Nice work mnewberry. I know exactly the sort of shenanigans that these scammers have been allowed to get up to over the last 10 year due the the so called:spot on:MINING BOOM:spot on:.... You know we literally had an agent tell us to go ahead and complain to the RTA when our previous agent blatantly stole money from us before we moved in to our current rental... I hope that with nothing to loose a lot of people do their best to put these unscrupulous business operators out of the game. Good luck.

Every one has to do their share of the heavy lifting...

I think you confuse Religion with Customs and Culture. Religion is just a very simple form of education.

Smartest marketing move in the history of mankind! Does anyone believe christianity would be the worlds dominant religion if they didn't change their message to suit the masses??? This is a very recent phenomenon. A poor christian in 700ad Britain would think you were the a satanist talking that mumbo jumbo.

There was an unusual weather event in Mackay tonight... At about 6.30...just before sundown...the sky went an unusual orange colour. I didn't take a photo...it drew me outside. The sky was in turmoil. I have seen other people commenting on facebook...and if I hadn't seen that I would have had to assume I was imagining it because it.

Some sources will tell you that Australia was the worlds largest Opium customer in 1954...and remember this was long after they enacted the anti Chinese Opium Laws. I have been told that it used to be a housewife favourite...back when there was such a thing.

It is perfectly logical... poppies and hemp are as old as humanity. Our ancestors carried it to just about every continent and climate on earth (particularly hemp).

And hot air.

"PROFOUND FALSEHOODS about Australia’s economy are repeated relentlessly. The damage this does to political discourse and community wellbeing is immense." https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/we-really-must-talk-about-all-these-lies,5608

Such a narrow and negative world view. I pity you. It must be stressful believing every one around you is a bum.

Then it wouldn't be welfare....it would be income protection???

Get hounded by "them" enough and they end up on disability in the end.

Wanting to be on the Disability Pension should tell you enough about their level of ability. Not every disabled person comes with a wheelchair.

"and this one".... REALLY?

She wouldn't know a spade if it hit her in the head.

http://m.watoday.com.au/comment/miners-reveal-a-poverty-of-thinking-on-coal-20141107-11il9t.html

Sorry if you don't have a neck and spine...you know....so you can look over your shoulder...