HERB: smoke, or don't?

[Nefta]

I'm wondering.What will happen if the laws recstricting herb smoking and trade were gone? Are we gonna still debate this issue??

[leggo rocker]

They still debate it in Holland...

[Nefta]

Ja, they disscus might be: HHmm! what should i smoke today, purple haze, maybe some skunk...Oh i got it lets eat weed brownies and then have some licks of hydro...

[Bill]

Here in .ca we have the highest percantage of herb smokers per capita in the "industrialized"world,more the N.L and JA combined.

A dubious honour indeed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... nnabis_use

[leggo rocker]

An Holland is way down the list, which shows that herb use has NOTHING to do with legality. The reverse even?

But there is debate in Holland over herb. There are many people there that are very anti-herb and are pushing for a change in the law and the abolition of coffee shops.

[Bill]

Nice insight Leggo,i agree legalization seems to have lowered consumption in the NL.I do believe their coffee shops has an element of crime and unwanted tourist behavour that they would like to get rid of.

[leggo rocker]

The coffee shops might be a magnet for illegal behaviour, but I suspect nowhere near as bad as the 'illegal' drugs trade here in the UK.

In the UK drug dealing is in the hands of the underworld. It fuels street crime, gun violence and ultimately pays the bad guys and helps finance other crime.

Of course, the biggest drug racket in the UK (World?) isn't in crack or cocaine, it's in prescription drugs. So called Anti-depressants are ruining people's lives (both the users and their families), they don't work and they make the fat-pharmaceutical-cats fatter by the day.

It's a disgrace and typical of the rampant Babylonian hypocrisy.

[Survival]

The reason that Herb is legall in the Netherlands, is that if you want to smoke some weed you don't have to go to the same guys who sell crack and all that real bad stuff. So people who only smoke weed don't come in contact with the real bad guys.

[leggo rocker]

Yes Survival, true. And that has long been an argument in the UK for legalization, and a very valid one too IMHO.

[pfudl]

...does it matter if people smoke herb or not? i&i dont think so, reggae and the rastafari culture is about being pure (ital) and carrying on jah works. not burning of herbs. although i practice it daily and dont care if babylon find me, it still shouldnt be stereotyped to reggae and the rastafari culture.

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