Amsterdam to close many brothels, marijuana cafes

[AllardChardon]

I wonder if the fear of same sex marriage is not procreation, once again. I mean, gays used to be invisible, and hardly ever had children. Now, it is wide open and kids are a definite option. I think that drives the evangelicals right up the wall. Be gay, if you must, but just don't procreate your kind to bedevil future generations, or some such thinking. Of course, it is all nonsense. Homosexuals often married and had kids before understanding or admitting their true preference.

 

[NoJo]

Marajuana and me don't get on well. One reason why I've never ventured across the North Sea to Amsterdam.

I'd like to look at the hookers though.

 

[shereads]

Marajuana and me don't get on well. One reason why I've never ventured across the North Sea to Amsterdam.

I'd like to look at the hookers though.

Think wooden shoes with stilletto heels.

 

[champagne1982]

Marijuana is illegal because the pushers fund the right-wingers to keep it illegal. Just like the bootleggers used to pay to keep prohibition illegal. There's too much money to be made in illegal pot.

<tongue-in-cheek=on> You're wrong DocM. Marijuana is illegal because it is a dangerous hallucinogenic. Just read the opening prologue. What an awful substance! </tongue>

 

[AllardChardon]

Good ole Reefer Madness. It was shown to me in High School by teachers that thought it was accurate. Over half the kids in class smoked already, it was the 60s after all, and we laughed our asses off because we thought it was a joke. The lights came on, the movie stopped, we were sternly looked at and then told what a seious matter this really was. What a fucking riot.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Good ole Reefer Madness. It was shown to me in High School by teachers that thought it was accurate. Over half the kids in class smoked already, it was the 60s after all, and we laughed our asses off because we thought it was a joke. The lights came on, the movie stopped, we were sternly looked at and then told what a seious matter this really was. What a fucking riot.

I remember that. I couldn't figure out what they were talking about in the eighth grade. I think it was in high school that I even began to understand what marijuana was. Still never tried it until I got into the Army. It puts me to sleep. Hell, I can fall asleep in 90 seconds with just a flat place to lie down. Needless to say, it interested me no further.

 

[xssve]

As I keep saying, I hope they make tobacco illegal.

I'll make a freakin' mint!

The tobacco companies launder the drug money.

 

[Boxlicker101]

It is even a risk to admit the truth of being a total pot head on LIT. Some will say my paranoia comes from pipe induced thoughts. Instead of the cold hard facts I can produce to support my paranoia. LOL

And being a gay supporter is just as lethal up here. I live at the junction of Slim Pickensville and Butt Crack Central. The locals love their alcohol and drugs, just not gay men. Gay women are perfectly okay, though. LOL

I always thought the only isk on Lit. is admitting to being a Republican. I'm not one, although I vote for some candidates who are Rep.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Good ole Reefer Madness. It was shown to me in High School by teachers that thought it was accurate. Over half the kids in class smoked already, it was the 60s after all, and we laughed our asses off because we thought it was a joke. The lights came on, the movie stopped, we were sternly looked at and then told what a seious matter this really was. What a fucking riot.

I saw it on TV a while ago, when it was portrayed as camp. Now that I think of it, I'm surprised I was not shown it when I was in school during the late forties and early and middle fifties. That was the time it was available. I don't know if I would have recognized it as a crock or not.

 

[jeninflorida]

OMG that is funny

The tobacco companies launder the drug money.

 

[shereads]

Brand names for legal marijuana have been registered with gov't trademark office for decades. Registered by tobacco companies. "Columbian Gold," etcetera etcetera.

Imagine the marketing campaigns.



"Smoke the Really Good S**t."

Of course, Philip Morris & co. would want to add some nicotine to the mix to make it seriously addictive. Legal pot will be a lousy product.

 

[xssve]

OMG that is funny

It's true.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Brand names for legal marijuana have been registered with gov't trademark office for decades. Registered by tobacco companies. "Columbian Gold," etcetera etcetera.

Imagine the marketing campaigns.



"Smoke the Really Good S**t."

Of course, Philip Morris & co. would want to add some nicotine to the mix to make it seriously addictive. Legal pot will be a lousy product.

Hopefully, when it is finally legalized, Congress will have sense enough to prohibit the addition of any addictive substance, and specifically include nicotine.

By the way, Barney Frank is not a senator.

 

[shereads]

By the way, Barney Frank is not a senator.

I know. It was the drugs...Or maybe I meant, "Señor."

 

[AllardChardon]

Yes, since the 60s, all the major tobacco companies bought up land in Mexico and elsewhere, copyrighted names like Columbian Gold and have been poised, waiting for the legality to take over. But alas, the hippies found they could make money on the stuff, it went underground in California and many other states, and you know the story from there.

Maybe that's the real source of the so-called Mexican cartel? Maybe the tobacco companies are the cartel? The DEA found a huge "Mexican cartel" garden up the creek bed near my house on State land last year and it was a mess. No decent hippy grower would have ever used those horrible chemicals and that kind of a set-up. But they left the local 215ers alone with their little organic gardens, like me.