@julianbuchanan.bsky.social
Pioneered risk/harm reduction in Liverpool in 1980s. Ex Drug Worker & Criminology Professor. Speaker, Blogger, Writer, Activist for drug reform. Founding member of Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa. Pākehā/Scouser https://julianbuchanan.wordpress.com/
When people make arguments to "legalise drug 'x' because it's relatively safe" - it makes no sense - it's as if they are agreeing that more risky drugs are best prohibited???
Seriously?
Prohibition only increases risk considerably. The regime needs to be challenged!
Please help us out!
Sign our Parliamentary PETITION to repeal the 1975 MDA.
We need your support 🙏
Anyone can sign
petitions.parliament.nz/0ab5ed2a-54c...
Anyone can sign - so please do and encourage others too as well - petitions.parliament.nz/0ab5ed2a-54c...
Many Thanks!!
Laws need to be based on science, evidence and experience - please sign our petition for reform and recirculate!
Thank you so much!👍
Roadside drug testing will lead to more switching to drugs that don't stay in your system for as long as cannabis does (weeks even months).
Unknown drugs that may carry far more risk.
New synthetic drugs are a by-product of prohibition enforcement.
#EndProhibition
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Anyone can sign - so please do and encourage others too as well - petitions.parliament.nz/0ab5ed2a-54c...
Many Thanks!!
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
A cartoon script I put together for @hrca.bsky.social
Correlation is not causation.
Drug presence is not drug impairment.
Our drug policies and laws must be based on evidence - not hunch, not fear, not ideology, nor sending out the 'right' messages!
Truth...
24.09.2025 08:15 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"We will blow you out of existence ... Each boat we sink carries drugs that would kill more than 25,000 Americans."
Amid Trump's ludicrous claims as his Caribbean killings continue, the US is further destabilizing the region, reports
@tganeva.bsky.social:
A cartoon script I put together for @hrca.bsky.social
Correlation is not causation.
Drug presence is not drug impairment.
Our drug policies and laws must be based on evidence - not hunch, not fear, not ideology, nor sending out the 'right' messages!
17.09.2025 12:50 —
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Our approach to drugs under prohibition has been informed by propaganda, prejudice and hunch - with devastating consequences:
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Have we become immune to the hypocrisy and contradiction?
It's crazy.
Julian Buchanan: @julianbuchanan.bsky.social
Brandon Hutchison: hrca.nz
Kirsten Gibson: @kirstengibson.bsky.social
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"[G]iven the severe, artificial and needless inflation of risks around prohibited drugs, we would argue that referring to overdose fatalities as 'drug-related deaths' deflects from the truth."
"These deaths [..] are better described as 'prohibition-related deaths.'"
#USA #Policing #Drugs
My latest article co-authored with @hrca.bsky.social colleagues for International Overdose Awareness Day #IOAD2025 explaining why referring to overdose as a drug related death is misleading - most of these deaths are prohibition related deaths!
filtermag.org/overdose-pro...
In today’s Weekend Herald #nzpol
29.08.2025 18:27 — 👍 131 🔁 48 💬 3 📌 0
My latest article co-authored with @hrca.bsky.social colleagues for International Overdose Awareness Day #IOAD2025 explaining why referring to overdose as a drug related death is misleading - most of these deaths are prohibition related deaths!
filtermag.org/overdose-pro...
Have we become immune to the hypocrisy and contradiction?
It's crazy.
The rich robbing the poor like medieval times - just far more organised with nobody able to escape their pillaging.
It's well out of control.
13.08.2025 03:54 —
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Interview - digging deeper to explore:
1. The damage from decades of institutionalised propaganda about 'drugs';
2. Risk & regulation;
3. Examine the implications and issues of legalisation
4. Consider strategies for reform.
youtu.be/FlCu5-SONXc?...
Interview - digging deeper to explore:
1. The damage from decades of institutionalised propaganda about 'drugs';
2. Risk & regulation;
3. Examine the implications and issues of legalisation
4. Consider strategies for reform.
youtu.be/FlCu5-SONXc?...
It's a brutal and despicable drug apartheid.
06.07.2025 10:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Let us stand together.
Don't be duped by the war monger$$$$$$$
They invaded and bombed Iraq falsely claiming they had 'weapons on mass destruction' - backed up by a dodgy dossier simply compiled from various sources from the internet!
🇩🇪: Bei obiger Einordnung waren @docsteinmetz.bsky.social und @torrid-luna.bsky.social allerdings eine wertvolle Inspiration!
🇳🇿: And also once again many thanks to @julianbuchanan.bsky.social for the basic creation, the origin of which comes from him: julianbuchanan.wordpress.com
"Endlessly repeating the same pattern for 50 years and imagining that —on this occasion, unlike all the other occasions—the results of prohibitionist policies will somehow be different is, to be frank, utterly deluded.." @julianbuchanan.bsky.social #addiction #opioids #harmreduction
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#NZPol The excellent Anne Salmond on the execrable Regulatory Standards Bill, aka Aotearoa’s Corporate Government Enablement Act.
We must fight this nonsense in every way possible. It represents the very real end of the concept of ‘public good’.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/14/a...
