On 13 Dec 2013, at 00:51, LizR wrote:
On 13 December 2013 07:04, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
On 12 Dec 2013, at 18:31, meekerdb wrote:
Is it true that you're transferring to the University of Uruguay,
Bruno?
Yes, but not exactly. Apparently I will be triplicated in
Washington, Colorado, *and* Uruguay.
And Amsterdam?
I will be read and annihilated in Amsterdam.
:)
But note that in Amsterdam, cannabis is illegal, completely illegal.
It is just tolerated and decriminalized.
And that's bad, because it makes the coffee-shop owners sill in
relation with the criminals. It does not solve the root problem. They
do progress, as they allow more farmers to grow it, but only
exceptionally, and still under tolerance, not law.
I am not sure for Portugal, perhaps Telmo know better. I think they
tolerate all drugs, but don't have the full legalization, like in
Uruguay (and in Washington and in Colorado, except for the feds!).
We are still a long way from the understanding that prohibition
benefits only to bandits and terrorists, and that its harms a lot
individuals and the whole society at all levels. Why? because it is
the criminals who got the power, simply. Probably after Kennedy
assassination. The world is governed by "Al Capone", and it will look
like more and more a big Chicago (as it arguably already seems to be).
But Amsterdam and all cities in the Netherlands are very lovely, and
it is nice we can buy salvia and cannabis, medical or recreative,
without much trouble. Note that Uruguay violates an international
decision(*). That is good, and the time has come to doubt on the
sanity of that international decision. We should internationally
condemn all form of drugs and food prohibition, which is the most
unhealthy thing possible to do. I think that such arbitrary nonsense
has been made possible by the mentality which accepted the abandon of
doing theology in the scientific (interrogative) way.
Science is not yet born again. The Enlighten period was just a tiny
concession for the most exact sciences, not for the very spirit of
science, which allows *all* doubts, and encourage the critical mind in
*all* directions. All certainties, when made public, are a form of
madness.
Bruno
(*) The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said the
legislation in Uruguay contravenes the 1961 Single Convention on
Narcotic Drugs, to which it said Uruguay is a party.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/uruguay-marijuana-breaks-international-treaty
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