RE: Legalization.
July 4, 2014 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2014 at 1:46 pm by Bibliofagus.)
I live in the Netherlands.
So: I'd legalize marihuana. But regulate it. 18+ or 16+ only, and the same inspections a restaurant could expect.
I'd legalize smoking in bars that have a good way of protecting their employees (and the technology exists).
I'd legalize smoking in bars that are run and owned by a couple or individual who choose to allow it. Right now such an individual can legally choose to risk cancer by smoking himself, but he is not allowed to risk cancer by allowing his customers to smoke in his presence.
The Netherlands legalized it. But we forgot to regulate it and the too rare inspections are basically non-effective. The combination of these factors has led to a very complicated situation over here. In my view talking about just 'legalising' things like this or that is narrowing these issues beyond usefullness.
(Lol. My response to Fidel glued itself to my response to the OP without my doing. But I received a kudo in the meantime
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So: I'd legalize marihuana. But regulate it. 18+ or 16+ only, and the same inspections a restaurant could expect.
I'd legalize smoking in bars that have a good way of protecting their employees (and the technology exists).
I'd legalize smoking in bars that are run and owned by a couple or individual who choose to allow it. Right now such an individual can legally choose to risk cancer by smoking himself, but he is not allowed to risk cancer by allowing his customers to smoke in his presence.
(July 4, 2014 at 12:26 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Prostitution . Not because I've ever frequented one, but because legalising it will go a long way to ensuring that both the guys and girls who are doing it can are not criminalised often for being right on the end of destitution owing to drugs, poverty or a combination of the both.
Regulating it could lead to better protection and perhaps getting assistance to those who need it. Often it can be a destructive cycle; hooked on a substance, sell your body to get more. I think legalising it could go someway to breaking that cycle, and maybe making their lives and the lives of others better and more productive.
The Netherlands legalized it. But we forgot to regulate it and the too rare inspections are basically non-effective. The combination of these factors has led to a very complicated situation over here. In my view talking about just 'legalising' things like this or that is narrowing these issues beyond usefullness.
(Lol. My response to Fidel glued itself to my response to the OP without my doing. But I received a kudo in the meantime
)
