Ash Blackwell 🌸
@AshBinAus
Drug law reform and human rights activist. Co-Founder of SSDP Aus and co-host of Enpsychedelia radio. Part time circus trickster and full time political staffer
In 2018 I represented the Australian vaping community as part of the New Nicotine Alliance at the @GFNicotine an annual international conference on nicotine and tobacco harm reduction. The consistent way that Australia's policies were ridiculed was very interesting and it's…
Please join me at this event on Sunday. The event is free, but registration is necessary. I hope to see you there!
Imagine fucking up tobacco and vaping policy so bad you create an international arson and murder for hire service that is now so established it can likely be accessed by foreign adversaries. *And* implementing messaging that undermined tobacco harm reduction so badly that…
Switch on @abcnews and there’s nothing on a mob storming a restaurant in Melbourne flipping tables & chanting “Death to the IDF.” Instead they lead with a story about the migrant crisis in Europe & a Portuguese soccer player who has died. Why are my taxes paying for this?
High taxes and vaping prohibition created the tobacco wars. With the cost of living pressures and high alcohol taxes we could be seeing the start of the bootlegging and black market alcohol era. Yeehaw, gimme that moonshine baby.
There was a ram raid at a bottle shop in Hastings around 5.15am. Police say the building sustained significant damage. @3AW693
What he said 10 f**ks 2 c**nts 1 f**kwit 1 BS 1 r00ted “People don’t understand, they think the electricity comes from out of f**king space”
US will need big beautiful tariffs to pay for his big beautiful bill. 💥 A 20% average tariff may be the new normal 🚗 Toyota already raising prices 🚙 Used car prices just posted their biggest jump in 3 years 📉 Businesses will soon face a tough choice: pass on costs—or cut
This is the way.
This is a ghost supermarket. There should already be a Woolworths on this site in Halswell, Christchurch. But it took four years and $3 million just to get permission to build it. This is why grocery prices are so high. Firstly, the $3 million cost to get resource consent is…
Saw this on my way home. I don't want to know what dark suit is happening behind those gates...
Public sector unions: “You can’t have school choice, it will take money away from our schools!” School choice allows for dollars to follow students. So what they’re admitting is if we gave parents a choice, they might not choose them. Telling, isn’t it.
Isaac Asimov was so ahead of his time Absolutely nailed it here
Sounds like a win. They should leave it like that for a few years and see what happens.
A lawsuit challenging Charlottesville, Virginia's abolition of single-family zoning unexpectedly sees the city's entire zoning code thrown out. reason.com/2025/07/08/nim…
Ten years ago today Nick Wallis founded the Enpsychedelia radio show on 3cr community radio, a show focussed on the interaction of drugs and society. For five years we interviewed leading experts on drug policy, psychedelic science and activists from Melbourne and around the…
The downward spiral continues. Are we moving past managed decline into early collapse?
Today our last paper mill, zinc and lead smelters warn they're going. Aluminum/steel collapsing. Plastic/glass already gone. Even the green energy grifters who contributed this are going bust. Australia can't even bag potatoes anymore. Things are going to get really bad.
She may well be the most dangerous person in the country. Authoritarians frequently try and control the world and censor speech and debate while calling it safety.
Australia's eSafety Commissioner last year attempted to censor: -The Bishop Wakeley attack footage -@BillboardChris' post questioning trans identifying Teddy Cook's fitness to advise on health policy -@celinevmachine_'s post reporting on a queer club in a primary school In…
Hard to look at social media or mainstream media in Melbourne today. Anyway, here's a highway patrol car stuck between two trams. Wtf was he patrolling anyway? No highways there buddy, that's not even a road.
I go to a lot of multi-day electronic music festivals. (Doofs) I love the welcome to country ceremony in this context. It's a nice vibe and kind of makes sense in the context. During the pandemic I was on an online meeting with some public servants. Four people in a private…
None of these parental control features on YouTube will work in a logged out state. We are governed by morons.
😂 Police raids for "insulting politicians on the internet". What a weak society. Australia is heading this way with the full support of our e-Karen commissioner.
NEW - German police today raided the homes of 170 citizens for allegedly spreading "hate" or insulting politicians on the Internet. disclose.tv/id/emyn1nz9zl/
This is so stupid I can barely wrap my head around it. We have an "illicit tobacco and e-cigarette commissioner" and they wont meet with people from the industry. What a joke. Zero chance of success. None at all. We aren't a serious country.
BAT found 39.4% of tobacco sales were black market in 2024 rising 54.6% to approx 60% of sales this year. Who says government can’t create an industry?