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> Long lines formed on a sub-zero morning last week to buy marijuana over the counter from three different shops in Ottawa, the first capital in the industriali
by norswap 8y ago
> Long lines formed on a sub-zero morning last week to buy marijuana over the counter from three different shops in Ottawa, the first capital in the industrialized world to open them.
Ah yes, Netherlands: a land of barbarians, murder and rampant disentery. Not a single industry in sight.
- TazeTSchnitzel 8y agoIn fairness, the Netherlands does not have legal cannabis. It just has deliberately lax enforcement.
- norswap 8y ago"Illegal but regulated", "Illegal but tolerated". Really, when such things have been formalized, it's just really, legal — at a less symbolic level than a proper law maybe, and with limitations for sure, but arguing otherwise is nitpicking.
- fmihaila 8y ago> Ah yes, Netherlands: a land of barbarians, murder and rampant disentery. Not a single industry in sight. Netherlands were the first in the industrialized world to tolerate it, and that demonstrated a lot of courage given the general attitudes at the time. Their example paved the way forward to today, when Canada is the first country in the industrialized world to give cannabis legal status. Legalization of cannabis is the drug policy equivalent of marriage equality in social policy (which in Canada is also the law of the land).