Saturday 22 August 2009

You can take drug legalisation too far ...

From the BBC:

NZ votes against child smack ban

5 comments:

James Higham said...

Are they allowed E or is that the same substance? I'm out of touch these days.

Pavlov's Cat said...

might calm a few of the buggers down a bit.

good spot, Mark

Pogo said...

Who was the (Scots?) comedian who said "though things were rough where I grew up I was never smacked as a child... Other than the odd half-gramme to get me off to sleep sometimes"...? :-)

Mark Wadsworth said...

JH, 'smack' is another name for heroin AFAIAA, it's got nothing to do with E short for ecstasy.

Pogo, Hale & Pace did a great joke where one of them rants on about the dangers of smack, crack and pot, and the other one asks what's so dangerous about Rice Krispies.

Pogo said...

Good old Google... managed to find the actual joke:

"My parents are from Glasgow which means they're incredibly hard, but I was never smacked as a child ... well maybe one or two grams to get me to sleep at night." Susan Murray at the Underbelly (Edinburgh Fringe"