[Yorick]

Originally posted by Djinn Raffo: quote: Originally posted by Yorick: I was talking with my brother about this tonight. There is no way any "ally" of the Empire of America could change their drug policy. Huge recriminations would result. Wasn't Noriega, the soveriegn leader of an independent nation, arrested, in his own nation, while sitting in power?? Because of drugs? It's my belief that all drugs. hard and soft, should be made 100% legal. The drug war has been lost. Remove the money from the underworld and all the crime with it. As it was with prohibilition. Remove the mystique. Treat adults as humans with a choice. Increase education and increase purity of the substances, and get it all out into the open. However if I became leader of Mali, and wanted to enact such laws, could I do so? Not unless American drug policy changed. New South Wales is only now allowing Marijuana for medicinal purposes, despite it being decriminalised years, and this proposal being around for years also. I distincctly remember pressure exerted on the government from America, when they last put this proposal in the air.

Actually Yorick there is a way an 'ally' of the Empire of America would change its drug policies because Canada, right now, is decriminalizing marijuana and Washington is not to happy about it. Vancouver also has its first fully legal shoot up clinic being built as well and it may be complete already.

I agree with you one hundred percent on the legalization. The bud trade in my province is a six to eight billion dollar industry. At the moment that is all black market 'criminal' activity. IMHO that trade should be legalized and that six to eight billion dollars should be taxed. [/QUOTE]Sydney has legal injection rooms. It's a long way from full legalisation, but it's a good start.