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Italy school trip was weedy good
Reuters ^ | 2-07-03

Posted on 02/07/2003 5:24:37 AM PST by Jimmyclyde

Italy school trip was weedy good

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian court has ruled that taking 40 joints of hashish on a school trip is not a crime. The marijuana was for personal use since the 17-year-old student planned to share it with two fellow students and a teacher, the appeals court judge said.

Under Italian law, selling marijuana is a crime, but possession for personal use is not.

"It could easily have been consumed during the many days of the trip," Corriere della Sera daily quoted the court ruling as saying.


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Calling all pots heads!!

Italy is the place to be.

1 posted on 02/07/2003 5:24:38 AM PST by Jimmyclyde
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To: Jimmyclyde; jmc813; Hemingway's Ghost; FreeTally; EBUCK; jayef; MrLeRoy
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Canada, Great Britain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, parts of Australia and Germany. The list is certainly growing.
2 posted on 02/07/2003 5:27:15 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Jimmyclyde
Let me predict how this thread will go:

A couple of anti-WOD folks, (some dopers, some not) will drop by and post the same things they have already posted on 456,899,080 other pot related threads. Then, some pro-WOD folks will post something about how terrible this is and the people in charge should be charged with child abuse, or whatever. Then a doper will post how pot has no harmful effects whatsoever. An anti-doper will post a study that disputes that. The doper will then find the DEA in the footnotes and say the study is discredited and obviously false. The anti-doper will call the doper a "doper." The doper will call the anti-doper a "statist."

Someone will ping the WOD list. Then the anti-WOD people (the same ones who post on every pot thread) will descend like locusts and post the same things they have posted on every other dope thread since James Polk was President.

They will shout down everyone who disagrees with them. The terms "What's your point?" and "Have a study to back that up?" will be used liberally. Finally, the pro-WOD folks will grow weary of the stridence of the ant-WOD crowd and leave. The anti-WOD crowd will post a few self-congratulatory notes and then migrate to the next WOD ping which appears like the Bat Signal in their "My Comments" list.

3 posted on 02/07/2003 5:38:28 AM PST by Skooz (Tagline removed by moderator)
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To: Jimmyclyde
Under Italian law, selling marijuana is a crime, but possession for personal use is not.

Best possible world for dealers of anything, and those whom they pay off. Guarantees high price and lots of consumers. Not to mention the incredible exercise of unintegrated values in a thing being legal to use but illegal to sell.

4 posted on 02/07/2003 5:40:38 AM PST by William Terrell (Advertise in this space - Low rates)
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To: Skooz
A very accurate description of WOD threads! When I lived in Italy in the 70s, they were pretty strict about drugs. I wonder what happened?
5 posted on 02/07/2003 5:43:05 AM PST by cardinal4 (The Clintons; second only to the Rosenbergs on hating America)
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To: Skooz; *Wod_list
Allow me.
6 posted on 02/07/2003 5:47:19 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie
I love it! Thanks. Some good fun on a Friday.
7 posted on 02/07/2003 5:48:30 AM PST by Skooz (Tagline removed by moderator)
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To: Skooz
Finally, the pro-WOD folks will grow weary of the stridence of the ant-WOD crowd and leave. The anti-WOD crowd will post a few self-congratulatory notes and then migrate to the next WOD ping which appears like the Bat Signal in their "My Comments" list.

Pretty much. But for as much as FR affects conservative thought, the thread will be there for all interested parties, and lurkers can read the arguments and make up their mind either way. One of these days, rethinking the W.o.D. is bound to creep into actual policy.

8 posted on 02/07/2003 5:48:54 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost
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To: Skooz
Perfect! Absolutely perfect! LOL
9 posted on 02/07/2003 5:51:38 AM PST by realpatriot71 (legalize freedom!)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
One of these days, rethinking the W.o.D. is bound to creep into actual policy.

Agreed. It's about time it came up in some rational, mainstream debate. But that has little or nothing to do with the posted story.

10 posted on 02/07/2003 5:52:30 AM PST by Skooz (Tagline removed by moderator)
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Agreed. It's about time it came up in some rational, mainstream debate. But that has little or nothing to do with the posted story.

Right. Personally, I'd be opposed to 17-year-old kids carrying around this kind of load, or any load, but hey, it's Italy, not America. They've got a completely different culture over there.

11 posted on 02/07/2003 6:04:48 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost
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To: Wolfie
Allow me.

Exxxxxxxcellent.....

Let the games begin.

12 posted on 02/07/2003 6:10:48 AM PST by Jimmyclyde
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
The marijuana was for personal use since the 17-year-old student planned to share it with two fellow students and a teacher, the appeals court judge said.

40 joints for two students and a teacher.

Talk about being stoned.

I'm sure the teacher would be able to function on this field trip. I mean it's ONLY 40 joints.

13 posted on 02/07/2003 6:14:26 AM PST by Jimmyclyde
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Whaddaya expect from a country that lets their kids drink booze at the dinner table. Desgracia!
14 posted on 02/07/2003 6:15:46 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Skooz
Boy, do you have these threads pegged, or what.
Even though it IS a very good description of what happens, there are some distinct posts on every one of these threads that seperates them from each other.
15 posted on 02/07/2003 6:24:37 AM PST by Just another Joe
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To: Wolfie
Desgracia!

Is that said in the Artie Lang voice?

16 posted on 02/07/2003 6:25:48 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost
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To: Jimmyclyde
40 joints for two students and a teacher.

{snip}The marijuana was for personal use since the 17-year-old student planned to share it with two fellow students and a teacher,{snip}

Ahem... That would be 40 joints between 3 students and a teacher.

17 posted on 02/07/2003 6:30:00 AM PST by csvset
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
You mean the "Lord of the Anal Ring Toss" Artie Lang? Of course.
18 posted on 02/07/2003 6:31:34 AM PST by Wolfie
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You mean the "Lord of the Anal Ring Toss" Artie Lang? Of course.

Nice. I knew it the moment I read it. A more than adequate replacement for the Jokeman, and when Adam Corolla and Jimmy Kimmel stop by, the show achieves near-perfection.

19 posted on 02/07/2003 6:35:42 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost
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To: Skooz
Then a doper will post how pot has no harmful effects whatsoever.

Provide evidence that anyone has ever posted that pot has no harmful effects whatsoever.

The terms "What's your point?" and "Have a study to back that up?" will be used liberally.

And rightly so, as off-point rants and baseless claims are the WODdies' stock in trade.

20 posted on 02/07/2003 6:41:03 AM PST by MrLeRoy ("That government is best which governs least.")
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