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Friday, September 09, 2005
Outright Lies #13
The Greens are claiming the EB brochures are filled with outright lies. I'm having a look at the claims, one by one, to see how the EB may have formed their opinion.
Outright lie #13: Offer financial assistance to cannabis growers for alternative employment.
I have been able to find no information to justify this assertion. The closest I got was an inference that (illegal) cannabis growers might be encouraged to grow hemp in the economically depressed Northland areas. "What is most interesting about the new policy is a pilot scheme to integrate commercial hemp crops into economically depressed areas like Northland that have traditionally been reliant on cannabis for their income." It is possible the EB mistook growing Hemp, with low THC properties as part and parcel of the drugs issue. Hemp crops are an interesting possibility for NZ, but that's another post.
Verdict: Innocent
Update: New information at NZ Conservative
Outright lie #13: Offer financial assistance to cannabis growers for alternative employment.
I have been able to find no information to justify this assertion. The closest I got was an inference that (illegal) cannabis growers might be encouraged to grow hemp in the economically depressed Northland areas. "What is most interesting about the new policy is a pilot scheme to integrate commercial hemp crops into economically depressed areas like Northland that have traditionally been reliant on cannabis for their income." It is possible the EB mistook growing Hemp, with low THC properties as part and parcel of the drugs issue. Hemp crops are an interesting possibility for NZ, but that's another post.
Verdict: Innocent
Update: New information at NZ Conservative
8 Comments:
12?
15+1 that the Greens didn't even acknowledge (which I might wrap up in my summary)
No, I mean isn't this #12.
No, this is #11 because we don't have a #5. #5 became #6. Promotion for a job well done.
Or maybe my RSS reader has been having too much of that legal Cannabis. Pardon folks, I'll blame it on the RSS reader for not refreshing the bloody content.
oops - I'm seeing double. I'll fix.
what gets me is why use a pamphlet campaign if you had $500,000 to spend? A television or radio campaign would be more effective.
1. They had more to say than a 15 second soundbite?
2. TV Advertising has gone up?
3. The Greens paid them, as a stunt to sink National?
4. They don't watch TV, so couldn't tell if they were effective?
5. One of the members owns a print shop, and the whole thing actually cost about $10,000?
6. God wanted ZenTiger to waste a day doing the rebuttal to the Greens?
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