[MrLeRoy]

Sounds pretty laissez-faire there

Rubbish. Nothing in the article says drugs are legal. (If you're looking at "only five percent [of drugs] intercepted at the Russian border," recall that our Drug Warring feds claim only 11% interception.)

[Migraine]

Sounds pretty laissez-faire there Rubbish. Nothing in the article says drugs are legal. Thanks for trashing my response w/ no basis. All I said is that it seems laissez-faire. I based that on a lack of mention of enforcement except for one data collector type who seemed to shrug and give a "Whaddya gonna do?" kind of posture. The tone of the article is that it is tolerated, tacitly, which is how I mean to use the term, laissez-faire. I am just shocked that there are some people who think this kind of human degradation is OK. I maintain that a large segment of the human population is irresponsible (w/o getting into the reasons). Turn that segment loose on freely-available drugs and you can just kiss them goodbye. It's not pretty; neither is the crime and squalor they foment. Lastly, isn't it possible to dialogue politely, even when you disagree?