01-04-2021, 11:16 AM
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Legalise Drugs and Daylight Savings?
At last the composition of the WA Upper House has been finalised with the final distribution of preferences after the WA Labor Party won the lower House in a landslide on the 13th March.Two micro-parties wanting to legalise marijuana and adopt daylight saving now have a voice on the crossbench of Western Australia's Upper House, despite receiving just a fraction of the primary vote.
The Legalise Marijuana WA Party's Sophia Moermond has secured a seat in the Legislative Council's South West region from 2 per cent of votes.
Meanwhile, the Daylight Saving Party's Wilson Tucker has been elected in the Mining and Pastoral Region after starting the count with just 98 votes, or 0.2 per cent.
It is possible due to preference harvesting deals among micro-parties, where parties take turns in preferencing each other high in one region to boost their percentage of the vote.
The Health Australia Party, No Mandatory Vaccination Party, Greens and Animal Justice Party all preferenced Legalise Cannabis second, only behind their own party.
When they were excluded, their preferences also flowed to Legalise Cannabis.
In the Mining and Pastoral Region the Liberals for Climate, Sustainable Australia, Western Australia Party, Great Australian Party, Health Australia Party and Liberal Democrats all placed the Daylight Saving Party second, as did some independents.
The Legalise Cannabis WA Party only formed late last year but took out fifth position out of the six seats available in the South West region.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-...ncil/100045910
01-04-2021, 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Legalise ALL psychoactive drugs but NOT antibiotics. Let nature take its course where drugs are concerned. If druggies die so much the better. Sorted.
01-04-2021, 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Pixie Knuckles
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Why not antibiotics? You mean for the drug users?
01-04-2021, 11:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruce
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At last the composition of the WA Upper House has been finalised with the final distribution of preferences after the WA Labor Party won the lower House in a landslide on the 13th March.Two micro-parties wanting to legalise marijuana and adopt daylight saving now have a voice on the crossbench of Western Australia's Upper House, despite receiving just a fraction of the primary vote.
The Legalise Marijuana WA Party's Sophia Moermond has secured a seat in the Legislative Council's South West region from 2 per cent of votes.
Meanwhile, the Daylight Saving Party's Wilson Tucker has been elected in the Mining and Pastoral Region after starting the count with just 98 votes, or 0.2 per cent.
It is possible due to preference harvesting deals among micro-parties, where parties take turns in preferencing each other high in one region to boost their percentage of the vote.
The Health Australia Party, No Mandatory Vaccination Party, Greens and Animal Justice Party all preferenced Legalise Cannabis second, only behind their own party.
When they were excluded, their preferences also flowed to Legalise Cannabis.
In the Mining and Pastoral Region the Liberals for Climate, Sustainable Australia, Western Australia Party, Great Australian Party, Health Australia Party and Liberal Democrats all placed the Daylight Saving Party second, as did some independents.
The Legalise Cannabis WA Party only formed late last year but took out fifth position out of the six seats available in the South West region.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-...ncil/100045910
I always heard that you Aussies were fun-loving partiers. I just never realized how true that was.
I don't want anything legalized that makes people less incompetent on the road than they already are.
01-04-2021, 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Surfermom
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I always heard that you Aussies were fun-loving partiers. I just never realized how true that was. I don't want anything legalized that makes people less incompetent on the road than they already are.
02-04-2021, 12:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Surfermom
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Yours is a most interesting system indeed! It sure would eliminate the binary, zero-sum-game political thinking that is rampant here right now.
02-04-2021, 12:30 AM
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Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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No, but abuse or inappropriate use of antibiotics results in bacterial infections that antibiotics very so won't even scratch the surface of.
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