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Cannabis is not legal in NL and there are many problems with their current setup involving organized crime. You say you "see" NL as a successful example, but I
by jp555 12y ago
Cannabis is not legal in NL and there are many problems with their current setup involving organized crime. You say you "see" NL as a successful example, but I think it's more of a belief based on assumptions. In reality it's a bit of a mess.
The U.S. ironically (they're the ones who got the world to sign treaties promising to never legalize) has the some of the best decriminalizatoin/legalization laws on the planet
- playing_colours 12y agoWikipedia [0] says it's still legal, but more and more restricted. So NL are not the best example for successful legalisation. [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands
- jp555 12y agoNever been legal, but tolerated. If you're smoking in the streets you can still get into trouble with the police. That's why there's coffeeshops. Smoke there or home and NL looks the other way. But on the supply side there are many problems.