Legalized Marijuana

[Idaho]

The situation in the Netherlands is very interesting. The situation was a finely balanced compromise with everyone choosing to let the the reality and the law diverge. And then they had, essentially, traffic problems with Germans coming over and buying weed, so embarked on a foolish and ill thought out "fix".

What they should have done is just built a car park in the first place.

[Fragony]

Mostly French, and they aren't buying it at the counter, such quantities aren't for sale in coffeshops. It are just tourists who like a smoke and don't cause any trouble at all that go to the coffeeshops. In most towns the new 'rules' that idiot thought up are just ignored and all is just fine there, nobody really wants to enforce them because it's a bad idea. But in Maastricht and Tilburg where they actually did it it's completely out of control, the tourists who have other things in mind than a smoke and just want to eat at a nice restaurant are not comming there anymore. It's so incredibly stupid to destroy a perfectly fine situation.

[HopAlongBunny]

The US has always shown limited imagination politically; why would they surrender the only tool they understand: terror.

International and domestic politics hinges on violence; economic, physical and psychological. The war on drugs is best tool in the drawer for domestic terror; limits "rights", debate, even communication. There is no answer to: "Because it's right!" and no reply asked for or needed from the community of the converted.

[Fragony]

You think somewhat unreasonably bad about your country. America has it's problems but it's hardly hell

[Major Robert Dump]

One of my dearest friends is an old captain who is an anti-marijuana fascist. By fascist I mean "wants life sentences" type.

Why is he like this? Well, becuase his brother ambushed a police officer in california and sits on death row. And was apparently "high on the pot" when it happened, an angle that was very strongly played in the old news stories I have read. I try to reason with him, to let him know that there was something else that pushed his brother over the edge, but he will have none of it. Love the guy, but he will not listen to reason. And even if it was the weeds fault, it would be a rather isloated incident.

Now, if only our resident marijuana fascists had stories as cool to defend their police state beliefs

[Fragony]

He COULD be right, cannabis tends to emphasise psychosis if one is vulnerable for it. There are a lot studies that support that, smoking weed could have absolutily have lead him to doing that.

[Major Robert Dump]

I can think of a lot of other legal things that tend to expedite psychosis in people already dispositioned, so where is the outcry against the Oxygen Channel and the band Rush?