This is what happens when you take two bad ideas - illegalization of victimless vice and overregulation of industry - and make them sleep in the same bed. The

This is what happens when you take two bad ideas - illegalization of victimless vice and overregulation of industry - and make them sleep in the same bed. The coffeeshop model was a cute Dutch experiment in the beginning but it is groaning with scale. The model has to be scrapped and re-thought, or it will continue to be manipulated by "well-meaning" laws that shutter coffeeshops becaue they just happen to be located within the prohibited radius of schools, even if such schools only teach hairdressing to adults. Petty-internet-argument-deflection-shield: soft vices like marijuana are victimless when safe and legal. Criminalization puts it in the hands of criminals.