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jet li said:
If they were legal, more people would have a shroom education.

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MushroomTrip said:
just because certain individuals are irresponsible doesn't mean that something should be interdicted.

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AlteredAgain said:
precisely. when a person causes a car accident for example then he is held personally accountable, and not the rest of the drivers on the road.

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this legal philosophy that "if one person screws up then everyone else will be punished" is exactly why the law system has become so complex nowadays.

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This is intimidation, but something that stands in one's power to disallow. From what I observed, many people actually feel guilty for using drugs so what laws do is that they adapt to this general psychology to be more efficient. So changing the way we think will automatically make the laws change as well.

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afoaf said:
Please note the reason they are attempting to pass these types of laws is to
keep idiot Americans from visiting for the sole purpose of getting stoned out
of their gourd and falling off bridges.

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I'm not going to note something that has no basis in reality.

The 17 year old girl was French, and she was also drunk at the time. While I cannot be certain, common sense implies that most of the foreign drug tourism in Amsterdam is from European countries, such as France and Britain (Britian being the main cause of concern).

Health concerns and suicide as a result of mushrooms is an extremely isolated occurence. When 500,000 doses of mushrooms are sold in a year, and there are 128 or so ambulance calls relating to mushrooms, that is statistically insignfigant. In fact, that is .0003%.

Anyone who has attained a reasonable, rudimentary understanding of the real situation knows that the decision to plan on criminalizing mushrooms has nothing to do with any problems relating from mushrooms. Politicial pressure from other European Union countries (Britian is a likely culprit), coupled with a prevalence of Christian conservatism is the underlying reasons for the call for the ban. Media hysteria plays a role as well I'm sure, just like it has in Britian, regarding all of the hysteric propaganda regarding super skunk.

The mayor of Amsterdam proposed a three day waiting period before the transaction could be completed, as well as education materials being given out in the mean time, as well as an age limit. Clearly, as a man responsible for the budget for the city, he knows just how important tourism is to Amsterdam's economy. If you think this has anything to do with ridding the city of drug tourists, then you might as well eat that serrano up another's asshole.

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This petition is applicable to the 1% of active board members whom actually live
in Holland.

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Are you retarded, or simply incredibly short-sighted? If some kind of physical limitation is responsible, then I apologize. Drug policy affects our community in a very real manner, no matter where the matter has sprung up. In fact, considering that we are talking about the Netherlands here, criminalization of mushrooms poses a serious threat to the hope for progress and sanity in regards to drug use everywhere, as the Netherlands is traditionally and widely recognized as the most liberal country regarding drug usage. There is too many organizations and politicians that are going rabid waiting for the opportunity to proclaim "See? Legalization didn't work there, and they tried it for so long! Drugs need to be criminalized".

Let's try to use our brains here, please.

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You'll have as much luck affecting this vote by putting a serrano up your pooper
and praying to the flying spaghetti monster.

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Apparently the fervant feedback they have been receiving is having its influence. A friend of a friend has spoken with people in smartshops, and apparently they've been informed that there will be at least two more weeks before a decision is going to be made. Clearly there is an incredible amount of resistance to this baseless political maneuver, and the resistance has on its side intelligence, cold hard facts, and the backing of a lot of money from tourism. Maybe we can focus on supporting a worthy and crucial cause, instead of being ignorant fools.

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FecalDildo said:
I found it weird that dutch kids speak english with a TV american accent. It was kind of sad.

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FecalDildo said:
Yuck.

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