Italy school trip was weedy good

Reuters ^ | 2-07-03

[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.

[Skooz]

I don't blame you! BTW, I have been to the Netherlands. Amsterdam a few years back. Lovely city in many ways, but the graffitti is pervasive and the people seem to have a real attitude. The main drag by the canal is a freak show. I would not feel safe raising a family there.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Lovely city in many ways, but the graffitti is pervasive and the people seem to have a real attitude. The main drag by the canal is a freak show. I would not feel safe raising a family there.

Really? What part was that?

[Skooz]

Huh?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

What part of Amsterdam were you in?

[Skooz]

That's a good question. It was walking distance from the dreaded "Red Light District," because we walked through there. The old part of the city, I assume, with nice brick townhouses. It was a main drag by the canal, with museums and restaraunts along the waterfront.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[robertpaulsen]

Wow. The list of countries for you guys to move to is certainly growing. Take your choice.

[Wolfie]

Thanks, but no thanks. The best of everything is available in the good ol' U.S.A.

[Gianni]

Wow, do you know these WOD threads, or what? I couldn't have summed it up better myself. Great entertainment, though.

It is possible that someday we can break the mold on these threads if people can stop arguing the merits of the laws and shift the debate to how government attained the authority to enact them in the first place.

[robertpaulsen]

Now Wolfie, I know that you're against the amount of money that the good ol' U.S.A. is spending on the WOD.

Wouldn't it be much less expensive to provide each user (and dealer) with a *free* one-way ticket (sorry, not allowed to return) to the country of their choice? Hey, throw in $1000 cash with a list of "places to shop" (if you get my drift).

This would be even more of an attractive offer to those who have been recently sentenced or are currently in jail. Think they'd take it?

[tpaine]

So 'skooz', take the constitutional high ground, and explain to us all your wonderful solution!
Tell us how we can win this war on drugs, guns, & liberty.


Connecting the War on Guns & Drugs [my title]
Address:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820965/posts

[Wolfie]

That would be up to the individual to decide. As for me, should I be busted for possession, I'd pay my $100 ticket and be on my way.

[Skooz]

Where did you read that I am for or against the WOD?

You didn't.

[tpaine]

"shift the debate to how government attained the authority to enact them in the first place."

Ahem, --- see #52 on this thread, --- or --- dozens of threads I've posted to that effect over the last five years.
So-called 'conservatives' who support the war, are simply in denial on the lack of a constitutional basis for such prohibitions.

[tpaine]

Where did you read that I ~said~ you are for or against the WOD?

You didn't.

[Skooz]

So 'skooz', take the constitutional high ground, and explain to us all your wonderful solution! Tell us how we can win this war on drugs, guns, & liberty.

I assumed from that post that you wanted from me some plan for winning the WOD; which presupposes that I am in favor of it.

Regardless, your posts merely affirm the point I made in post 3.

[Oberon]

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?

They discovered that the local economy goes in the crapper when forty percent of the population is in jail, mebbe?

I'm not an advocate of drug use. If I could make all the hard drugs in the world disappear instantaneously, I would. Fact remains, though, our War On Drugs appears to be having an effect opposite its declared intent, while swelling funding for law enforcement agencies and badly eroding constitutional precedents and guidelines handed down to us from the days of Jefferson and Adams.

Drugs are a cancer. The War on Drugs is another kind of cancer.

[Skooz]

Drugs are a cancer. The War on Drugs is another kind of cancer.

Well stated. Two monsterous evils at war with one another, both of whom are trampling over our rights and our wallets.

[robertpaulsen]

C'mon, Skooz, can't you see that tpaine is just dying to call you a statist? Get it over with.