The New Conservative Party recently changed their drug policy to remove the reference to increasing the legal penalties for cannabis use. This climbdown went unannounced, and was not noticed by other media concerns. But VJM Publishing noticed it, as we have been criticising the old New Conservative drug policy for years.
As captured in this screenshot from the Wayback Machine, the New Conservative drug policy used to state they wanted to increase penalties for cannabis use. This was consistent with the principles of the Christianity practiced by the New Conservatives, which seeks to destroy all genuine spiritual practice, leaving the Christian cult the sole purveyor of spiritual goods. Cannabis, which has been used as a spiritual sacrament by Indo-European people for thousands of years, is seen as evil by Abrahamists.
The problem is that such a policy is inconsistent with the principles of freedom, and New Conservatives have always presented themselves as a freedom party. Much of Elliot Ikilei’s campaign material from the 2020 General Election prominently featured the word “FREEDOM”, and freedom from the tyrannical Sixth Labour Government was one of the main selling points of the New Conservative movement.
However, claiming to stand for freedom at the same time as standing for the oppression of cannabis users is a blatant contradiction. VJM Publishing has been resolute in pointing out this contradiction. Every time someone preached to us the imperative of voting New Conservatives for the sake of freedom, we pointed out that the New Conservatives themselves opposed freedom for cannabis users.
Christians ripped into us for this stance. “Who cares about cannabis users?” they cried. Cannabis users are degenerates, their filthy habit should not be tolerated. Cannabis use causes violence and crime, they bleated (unlike our holy scripture that says followers of other religions should be killed). Only the freedoms that we want are actual freedoms – anyone wanting other freedoms can get stuffed.
But what goes around, comes around.
So when former New Conservative leader Leighton Baker was arrested in Wellington, he didn’t get much sympathy from these quarters. I couldn’t refrain from remarking that the Police did to Baker exactly what Baker wanted done to cannabis users. As such, it was fitting that he got a taste of his own medicine. This opinion proved immensely unpopular in some quarters (I was banned from several TeleGram groups for uttering it), but I stand by it.
All laws are enforced by Police violence. Every single one. If a person performs an action which is morally right, but which is legally wrong, a Police officer might arrest that person. If that person should resist the arrest on the grounds that their action was morally right, the Police officer will physically smash that person into submission in order to make the arrest possible.
Therefore, those who support cannabis prohibition also support violence done towards cannabis users by the law enforcement authorities. Although many supporters of cannabis prohibition deny this, it’s a fact made evident by simple logic. This is why cannabis users have understandable cause to resent those who support cannabis prohibition. It’s a similar level of brain-dead prejudice to wanting someone locked up for having sex with another consenting adult.
VJM Publishing made all of these arguments in the wake of Baker’s arrest. It seems that the irrationality of New Conservatives’ drug policy became apparent to them at some point shortly after, because they updated it to remove the policy of increasing penalties for cannabis use.
The basic inhumanity of cannabis prohibition is now evident to even the most morally depraved section of society, the Christian conservative. It’s surely just a matter of time before the law is significantly changed.
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