4/26/2010

Cannabis, Holland and the Rumours about lib dem.

Suddenly facebook groups have jumped up out of nowhere talking about how Lib Dem wants to legalise cannabis, yet when you check their manifesto you shall find no evidence of it at all. All it states is that policies should be based on scientists' advice. It annoys me immensely that there are so many people who are naive enough to just go along with it and not check it out for themselves. It took me about three minutes to find the manifesto and its section on drugs. To me it just seems like another vicious rumour spread by the other parties to try and make the Lib Dems seem like the worst people to possibly be in the government as a major player to those who do not support drug use. Furthermore, what people seem to forget is that even if this was what they believed in there is no way that it could possibly happen - they would be in a coalition government and therefore it wouldn't get passed as too many of the other parties would majorly disagree with the idea. Some people have attributed this (fictional) policy to Nick Clegg's half Dutch existence - something which is simply absurd. Just because we [the Dutch] are more open to this sort of thing, doesn't mean we feel it should be implemented all over the world. The most amusing thing that I have found is that due to the tolerance policy we have lower drug rates than quite a few countries around the world, including the UK and the USA. I would like to clear something up though, which to me is important. As much as we tolerate weed it is not legal as such. Technically "coffee shops" do not exist, weed is often no longer sold to tourists and not everyone smokes weed all the time. As the figures show roughly 15% of the people has tried it, that's all.
The reason why Coffee Shops have the name they do is because it is illegal to sell alcohol and weed in the same building, therefore one cannot buy alcohol in these places - hence coffee shop. (I know legislative it is a bit weird as they don't technically exist) Moreover, it is allowed to have three to five female cannabis plants at home for own use.
So those who have followed this and thought Oh my god what are they doing. Or those who are extremely excited about it, you are wrong, it's not happening and you have merely been duped by other parties trying to portray themselves as better. It is pathetic how the democracy of today has changed from one that is positive and is merely parties distinguishing themselves from others by positive comments towards themselves to parties trying to beat other parties down with negative slanter and banter. It makes me so angry because it is completely illogical, and to me absolutely disgusting.

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