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They still haven't legalized cannabis, meaning police can go intimidate ordinary growers and users. Same is true in South Africa.
by Synaesthesia 5y ago
They still haven't legalized cannabis, meaning police can go intimidate ordinary growers and users. Same is true in South Africa.
- aunty_helen 5y agoStory time because it's too good not to share. In a Colombian city, in a nice neighbourhood there exists an ice cream store that sells openly cannabis helado next to their normal flavours. The other day walking past, there were two cops standing outside talking with the owner (whilst eating ice cream). I was thinking that exactly this was happening, a shakedown. Fast forward to the next day, talking with the owner, she told me they were trying the cannabis flavours. I thought it was a big joke, like surely that would happen jajaja. No word of a lie, as I'm sitting there eating away, the two cops arrive on their bike. And my mind boggles, another free ice cream for them... No they were there to deliver their trip report to the owner.
- curation 5y agoI lived in Colombia in '95 right after they legalized cocaine and weed. It was funny, there was all these fake police harassing the Europeans by getting a street kid to place a jar of actual weed (not cannabis) beside them on the beach (this was in Santa Marta) and then showing them their tinfoil (really) badges and demanding to go to a bank machine to get money. It was a past time to watch it. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/07/world/use-of-drugs-is-legalized-by-colombia.html https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/07/world/use-of-drugs-is-leg...