Julian Buchanan, PhD

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...

Trump Brags of Lethal US Drug-War Strikes to the United Nations As the Caribbean killings continue, Trump makes ludicrous claims and destabalizes the region by redesignating Colombia.

"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!

Our approach to drugs under prohibition has been informed by propaganda, prejudice and hunch - with devastating consequences:

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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Overdoses Should Be Termed “Prohibition-Related Deaths” Another International Overdose Awareness Day arrives on August 31. It’s a time for us to reflect once more on a ...

"[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

Overdoses Should Be Termed “Prohibition-Related Deaths” Major drivers of overdose fatalities have little to do with drugs and everything to do with our drug laws.

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

Overdoses Should Be Termed “Prohibition-Related Deaths” Major drivers of overdose fatalities have little to do with drugs and everything to do with our drug laws.

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.

YouTube video by the daberHashery nz 710Sessions - Session 01 - Julian Buchanan - HRCA - Full Interview

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?...

YouTube video by the daberHashery nz 710Sessions - Session 01 - Julian Buchanan - HRCA - Full Interview

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.

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!

Drugs, Human Rights & Harm Reduction Julian Buchanan CPA, DSW, MA, PhD

🇩🇪: 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

Anne Salmond: What’s wrong with the Regulatory Standards Bill Opinion: Nine reasons why Act's legislation on regulation is flawed and should not pass

#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...

📇:Vorwort und Rechtliches Drogenmythen; Drogen, Mythologie, Mythen, Scheinargumente, Legenden, Überlieferungen, Trugschlüsse, Unwahrheiten, Lügen, Missverständnisse; Stigmata.

Sehr, sehr viele Mythen und Vorurteile werden auf folgender Seite zerlegt: drug-mythology.blogspot.com

Ein großer Teil davon hat seine Basis von @julianbuchanan.bsky.social (ein ausgezeichneter Experte in diesen Bereich). Einige Mythen werden auch von anderen Experten & sonstigen Autoren behandelt.

It's quite pathetic how 'drugs' are blamed for almost anything, and the real causes and issues go unattended.

We talk about the risk of overdose, better funding for treatment, the need for more harm reduction, increases in drug related crime, guns, gangs and violence, record levels of methamphetamine use, drug seizures etc. but fail to mention the main culprit...

Milton Friedman was an American economist and statistician born in 1912. He received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis - he could see the nonsense of drug prohibition and the importance of legalisation.

We should take note!

Why we argue for Drug Legalisation rather than Drug Decriminalisation:

Drug Prohibition: Lies, damned lies and semantics. Our favourite drug — excluded from the war on drugs

"The fact is, state approved drugs pharmaceuticals, ethanol and tobacco, are significantly more harmful than many of the psychoactive drugs governments refuse to approve and regulate." #recoveryposse #harmreduction #alcohol @julianbuchanan.bsky.social
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