What makes me special.... (21 Viewers)

[Slagathor]

++ [ originally posted by Ally ] ++
You're welcome
Law - my thing
And I forgot to add one thing: in this way drug dealers have always such small amount of drugs with them.

True. That's a BIG down-side to the entire system...

The plus-side is that people don't have to pay the maffia outrageous prices for their drugs, thus tackling the income system of the organised crime. Also, you can apply for kick-off programmes at every coffee-shop where marihuana is sold in Holland. The government will fully pay for the programme if you end it succesfully - a great system imo!

 

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[Zambrotta]

I asked a belgian friend about how it works in Holland:

Marijuana is illegal.
You are allowed to wear five grammes but not more because then it is not for personal use. You have to buy in a coffeeshop. You have to smoke it or however you use it in the coffeeshop or at home. If you smoke on a public place you will be arrested. That doesn't happen very often though(that you get arrested) about as often as you get arrested for drinking alcohol in public places, which is about never.

 

[Slagathor]

Exactly the same as the system in Holland then - how suprising...

 

[Zambrotta]

++ [ originally posted by Zambrotta ] ++
I asked a belgian friend about how it works in Holland :

It's different in Belgium

 

[Slagathor]

Oh oops - I missed that bit :embarass: That's what you get when you try to do too many things at the same time

 

[vitoria_Ally]

Good that at least you can't smoke it in every public place, as you would wish.

Erik: really good idea about such kick-off programmes. We would need such thing as well.
btw: when we had a discission about drugs in Poland - such small amounts: legal or illegal - people who wanted decriminalisation of small doses of marihuana always gave as example Holland. That the fact, that you can buy it and smoke in the coffeeshop or at home - all this make drugs no such forbidden fruit and people aren't so willing to use it.
Others said that when you can by it to easily - you always try it, cause you have easy chance to get it.
So? What is the truth over there?

 

[Slagathor]

The forbidden fruit theory is definitely true, teenagers no longer see the smoking of marihuana as 'cool' but more as pathetic nowadays.

There's a society-wide sympathy for those poor addicts even!

 

[Slagathor]

Might I add to that: there's a common misperception of Marihuana.

Yes, it's addictive but not any more as, say, alcohol. Like there are thousands of people going to the pub every now and then to have a beer or a glass of wine, so too can you smoke a joint every now and then just to relax and not get addicted. People often think you are addicted after one joint, this is simply not true of course!

 

[Tom]

I didn't realise you lot were all druggies

 

[Slagathor]

Not that you would know what that's like, in suburban England

 

[vitoria_Ally]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
The forbidden fruit theory is definitely true, teenagers no longer see the smoking of marihuana as 'cool' but more as pathetic nowadays.

There's a society-wide sympathy for those poor addicts even!

Really? You made me :dazed: now. I thought that more that second possibility.
Or maybe in the beginning people were happy cause of such easy access?

Eh... what for I'm asking. I'm sure they were

 

[Slagathor]

++ [ originally posted by Ally ] ++
Really? You made me :dazed: now. I thought that more that second possibility.
Or maybe in the beginning people were happy cause of such easy access?

Eh... what for I'm asking. I'm sure they were

Yes they were Also a bit cautious in the beginning - the government expected a stampede towards these new coffeeshops but that didn't happen.

 

[Tom]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
Not that you would know what that's like, in suburban England

bloody foreigner

 

[Slagathor]

A foreigner with a Midlands accent

 

[vitoria_Ally]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
Might I add to that: there's a common misperception of Marihuana.

Yes, it's addictive but not any more as, say, alcohol. Like there are thousands of people going to the pub every now and then to have a beer or a glass of wine, so too can you smoke a joint every now and then just to relax and not get addicted. People often think you are addicted after one joint, this is simply not true of course!

Sure not after one joint.
But I'm wondering, what if take them away this: now and then joint, what then? Will they feel that they need sth or they will take in normal way: no need.

 

[Tom]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
A foreigner with a Midlands accent

A permanent scar from your time here. You will never forget it :devil:

seriously I do hope you don't base your opinions on our country from leicester

 

[Slagathor]

++ [ originally posted by Ally ] ++
Sure not after one joint.
But I'm wondering, what if take them away this: now and then joint, what then? Will they feel that they need sth or they will take in normal way: no need.

It works exactly the same way as alcohol. Now, I'm sure you have a glass of wine or a cocktail every now and then so you KNOW already how it would go if you ever decided to smoke Marihuana

 

[Slagathor]

++ [ originally posted by Paolo_Montero ] ++
A permanent scar from your time here. You will never forget it :devil:

seriously I do hope you don't base your opinions on our country from leicester

Nono, I went to Lincoln, Nottingham, London and some other places so I have a pretty realistic view! At least I like to think so...

 

[vitoria_Ally]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++


Yes they were Also a bit cautious in the beginning - the government expected a stampede towards these new coffeeshops but that didn't happen.

I can't imagine such coffeeshops over here.
But I can imagine HUGE stampede towards such coffeeshops, if they were opened here

 

[Tom]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
Nono, I went to Lincoln, Nottingham, London and some other places so I have a pretty realistic view! At least I like to think so...

thank god you never come to derby *pheeew* you would have ran a mile, disgusted at the lack of humanity