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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · 15d

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!

Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 15d

We are receiving important reminders about paracetamol that association is not causation. Could someone also tell the NZ Transport Agency that association is not causation. Drugs like cannabis can be detected days, weeks even months after consumption. Drug presence is not the same as drug impairment

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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 14d

Truth...

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Filter | harm reduction journalism @filtermag.bsky.social · 14d

"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:

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.

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · 15d

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!

Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 15d

We are receiving important reminders about paracetamol that association is not causation. Could someone also tell the NZ Transport Agency that association is not causation. Drugs like cannabis can be detected days, weeks even months after consumption. Drug presence is not the same as drug impairment

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · 21d

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Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · 28d

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

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Have we become immune to the hypocrisy and contradiction?
It's crazy.

Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · Aug 18

How can this make any sense?

Are we trapped in an episode of the Twilight Zone or Life on Mars?

Is this just a far fetched joke?

No.

Across the world police invest massive resources to seize 'drugs' often less harmful than the ones they use!

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Aug 29

Julian Buchanan: @julianbuchanan.bsky.social
Brandon Hutchison: hrca.nz
Kirsten Gibson: @kirstengibson.bsky.social
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Aug 29

"[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”

Another International Overdose Awareness Day arrives on August 31. It’s a time for us to reflect once more on a ...

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 29

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!
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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.

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Heather Hobbs @hghobbs.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · Aug 29

In today’s Weekend Herald #nzpol

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 29

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...

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.

filtermag.org

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Have we become immune to the hypocrisy and contradiction?
It's crazy.

Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · Aug 18

How can this make any sense?

Are we trapped in an episode of the Twilight Zone or Life on Mars?

Is this just a far fetched joke?

No.

Across the world police invest massive resources to seize 'drugs' often less harmful than the ones they use!

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · Aug 14

Power firms tipped to pay a record $1.4 billion to shareholders 👀
#nzpol

Power firms set to pay a record $1.4 billion to shareholders

It’s been a tough 12 months for electricity users, but payouts to shareholders in the big four power companies aren’t expected to miss a beat. Have your say in the comments.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 6

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.

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710Sessions - Session 01 - Julian Buchanan - HRCA - Full Interview

YouTube video by the daberHashery nz

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · Aug 6

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?...

710Sessions - Session 01 - Julian Buchanan - HRCA - Full Interview

YouTube video by the daberHashery nz

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · Jul 6

It's a brutal and despicable drug apartheid.

Harm Reduction Coalition Aotearoa @hrca.bsky.social · Jul 6

'Please Sir....'
'Let me join I'm not addictive...'
'How about me I'm natural'
'What about me, I'll be good?'

Say no to all drug exceptionalism.
The privilege of prohibition is corrupt & devastatingly damaging.

Don't seek to join it - let us unite & seek to abolish it!

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Julian Buchanan, PhD @julianbuchanan.bsky.social · Jun 23

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!

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Yo24hua☯️Base - Hanf Planet @yo24hua-base.bsky.social · Jun 11

🇩🇪: 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

Drugs, Human Rights & Harm Reduction

Julian Buchanan CPA, DSW, MA, PhD

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Mary Beth O'Connor @marybethoconnor.bsky.social · Jun 14

"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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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · Jun 13

#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...

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

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Yo24hua☯️Base - Hanf Planet @yo24hua-base.bsky.social · May 22

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.

📇:Vorwort und Rechtliches

Drogenmythen; Drogen, Mythologie, Mythen, Scheinargumente, Legenden, Überlieferungen, Trugschlüsse, Unwahrheiten, Lügen, Missverständnisse; Stigmata.

drug-mythology.blogspot.com

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