| non-gravity said: The idea behind the legal use of soft drugs is that you take it out of criminal hands, regulate it and can even have taxes on them. It's not like you can get them in any other country. |
My wife wouldn't let me go to the Netherlands because of the hookers. I know only a very small part of the country is like that. But that's how woman think. And umm, if I was there, I mean you can't not at least take a stroll down the red light district just to check it out. So yeah, the Netherlands would be out as far as a vacation stop.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
