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sethnintendo on 23 December 2012
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fighter said:
sethnintendo said:

I remember when they tried to paint pot smokers that buy weed as people that support terrorist (money to drug cartels) with anti marijuana TV ads. Too bad most of the high grade weed is grown in USA and not Mexico. Mexico is mainly where the schwag comes from.  So support the USA and buy high grade weed.


yeah there were some similar comments by european governments when it's so easy to make it legal and have it taxed the way the dutch do


I suppose I was a little off.  It was about drugs in general not just marijuana.  I added the video to the my original post. 

 

"In The Netherlands the substances which are commonly seen as ‘illegal drugs’ are divided by law into 2 groups: harddrugs (List I) and softdrugs (List II).

Cannabis is seen as a softdrug. Within the Netherlands there is no active prosecution against the individual users of softdrugs, but the substances itself maintain illegal.

The Dutch created for this their own official ‘Policy of Tolerance’ (in Dutch: ‘Gedoogbeleid’). The government formulates it way more difficult, but in streetterms you can just explain it as an official ‘closing of the eyes’.

This Policy of Tolerance does have its limits: - It's not allowed to possess more then 5 grams of cannabis in a public area or 30 grams in a private area. - For cultivation you may not exceed the amount of 5 plants.

When you exceed these limits the tolerance stops and there will be some legal charges against you, when busted of course. So if you just follow these limits above you won’t have to worry about legal troubles at all."

http://www.dailysmoker.com/cannabis-legal-amsterdam-netherlands

Basically if you can't go as far as legalizing all the soft drugs then you should at least not bother individual users of soft drugs (and I believe hard drugs also).  Putting drug users in jail for possession is about the dumbest decision to be made.  It solves nothing and only adds costs to imprison these users.  Now, USA is a prison nation with just as bad of a drug problem as it ever had.  The drug war in USA is a failure and Reagan is a piece of shit for escalating it in the 80s. 

USA finds itself in a mess with opium production in Afghanistan now...

"By some, the extermination of the poppy crops is not seen as a viable option because the sale of poppies constitutes the livelihood of Afghanistan's rural farmers. Some 3.3 million Afghans are involved in producing opium."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan