Smell No Cannabis Evil

Weekend Libertarian ^ | 9 June, 2011 | B.P. Terpstra

[AustralianConservative]

I’ve been to Amsterdam and the revolution is a lie. Troubled by the Netherlands failed social experiment on teenagers, however, the Soros-backed Cato Institute and other Woodstock libertarians have been singing the praises of socialist Portugal’s soft-on-drug ethos, and hoping to hell we wouldn’t ask too many critical-thinking questions.

The faithful still claim that crime in Portugal has gone done since their nation went soft on drugs. But what’s gone down is their economy, an economic basket case. Moreover, the Portuguese have a history of fiddling with crime statistics. Or to quote my local newspaper:

A Melbourne woman was murdered in Portugal and her death covered up by police there, a Sunday Herald Sun investigation has found.

Former international model and fashion executive Jacinta Rees was hacked to death with an axe at her cottage in the Algarve, in southern Portugal, two years ago.

Portugal is cool!

But even official statistics can’t hide what I call the peaceful terror that is progressive Portugal. Somehow drug-first libertarians and open-borders libertarians are always missing the bloody stories:

The official data show that in the third trimester of the year (the summer months) violent criminality rose more than 16%, a substantial portion of the overall 10% rise in criminality last year, which concerns the most violent cases.

Portugal is cool!

Drugs Free America Foundation’s Calvina Fay knows:

Studies show Portugal is a classic example of what not to do. Drug-induced deaths in Portugal climbed to 314 in 2007 - significantly more than the 280 deaths recorded when decriminalization started in 2001.

Altogether now: Portugal is cool!

[tacticalogic]

Commies can’t maintain big government with no large manufacturing base and a currency that’s worth squat.

Mugabe's hanging in there a lot longer that I figured he was going t last.

[tacticalogic]

Husband bought some safes at a government auction; they had been confiscated by authorities in a drug bust. Got them home, opened them and there were some snippets of marijuana in the bottom of one (just residue), and some residue of white powder in the other one. Ah, maybe it was just where some potpourri and powdered sugar got spilled in them. All perfectly innocent I am sure.

I'd be careful with those safes. If they want to, they can use that as justification to seize you home, cars, and bank accounts until you can prove that residue was in there when you bought them, and not of your assets are from drug dealing. If you can't prove it, you're SOL.