Dutch Take Sober Look at Pot Laws

Philadephia Inquirer ^ | Jan. 01, 2006

[Vision]

Oh yea, let's have pot smoking on every corner like the Dutch. Can we have crazed muslims murdering artists and leaving their hate filled letters attached to the victims by a knife too?

[IonInsights]

pot smoking on every corner like the Dutch...crazed muslims murdering artists and leaving their hate filled letters attached to the victims by a knife

I don't see the connection between their pot policies and their Muslim immigration policies.

[Vision]

I don't see the connection between their pot policies and their Muslim immigration policies

Ok

[68 grunt]

Pardon me, but what do coffee shops have to do with murder

Never been to Holland, huh?

[Wolfie]

Happy New Year! ping

[Vision]

What am I pardoning you for?

[68 grunt]

In fact, au contraire, the 'tolerant Dutch' are feed up with their immigration problems. Perhaps too late, yet they are coming to their senses.

[md2576]

A study of FBI data released last year by a Washington-based think tank, the Sentencing Project, found that between 1992 and 2002, marijuana arrests rose from 28 percent of all drug arrests to 45 percent, while the proportion of heroin and cocaine cases dropped from 55 percent of all drug arrests to less than 30 percent

A pothead didn't break into my car, in the middle of the night, in my driveway, to steal my radio and all my work tools.

I had a chance to speak with the local running Mayor in my city and told him the cops were spending way to much time busting hard working family men for pot and not enough time catching crackhead, methed-out thieves. He aggreed but didn't win the Mayor seat.

[Wolfie]

Please, don't feed the Strawman. ;)

[68 grunt]

What am I pardoning you for?

For suggesting a flaw in your rhetoric.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Same old crap. Pandering to the lowest common denominator. Who needs any laws anyway ? After all, that's not going to STOP anyone, right ?

[Wolfie]

I've heard the same argument from Handgun Control, Inc.

[Vision]

For suggesting a flaw in your rhetoric

Ok, thanks for being so polite

No, I've never been to Holland. But I have friends who have, I've traveled enough of Europe, and smoked enough pot in my earlier years to generate an understanding of this thread.

Are you a pot smoker? Because I really hate posting to those destroying their lives preaching a schizophrenic belief that they've found the secret of life. It's a waste of energy.

[conservative cat]

A pothead didn't break into my car, in the middle of the night, in my driveway, to steal my radio and all my work tools.

No kidding. These freaking tweakers are the worst thing around. I'd rather they were all smoking joints and leaving the rest of us alone.

[fieldmarshaldj]

There you go again.

[hinckley buzzard]

Can we have crazed muslims murdering artists and leaving their hate filled letters attached to the victims by a knife too?

One of the benefits of "coffee shops" and "consumption rooms" is that you get to mellow out and not worry about unpleasantness like this. Burn my car? Geez man, not to worry--its insured. No wonder the Eurotrash don't respond to the islamic threat. They're basically a bunch of stoners.

[Galveston Grl]

This is the circular conversation I have with my son who wants pot legalized: Son: It should be legal. Mom: Who is going to pay for the pot heads when their numbers grow and they can not function to their potential in society? Son: Pot does not effect people's performance. It is harmless. Mom: It is harmful. Son: it is harmless... (down hill from here) Mom: I know you are but what am I!

[md2576]

Are you a pot smoker? Because I really hate posting to those destroying their lives preaching a schizophrenic belief that they've found the secret of life.

So you think pot is like acid? You are in a new state of consciousness? GMAFB

No one believes that taking a drink is the secret of life. Not to spout the tiresome old argument but do you drink?

[68 grunt]

I understand. Personally I hate posting to stupid people. Bye ...