Do you consider yourself a criminal

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Originally Posted by LIP

If it wernt for us smokers most of these food places wouldnt be here. Without us to eat everything the economy would flop.

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lol I dont know about flop.. but there is a cornerstore down the block here that thrives on dutch sales. Just about every other time I go in there for a dutch to roll a blunt, there is someone else doing the same thing.

I am not a criminal, I am a human being. Why can only the dutch government realise this?

actually... you're really only a criminal if you get caught. :thumbsup:

Yep, nothing's illegal til you get caught. I've said that phrase many a time =]

Why cant our governments learn something from Holland. They know what they're doing, and they got a great tourist trade from it, and people arnt getting arrested for smoking a damn plant.

When will our joke of a government learn... or maybe... it's all to save face? Cos they dont want to admit to the world they were wrong...one day... one day they'll be dead, and it'll be OUR choice to smoke dope.

I am not a criminal. I am an American Outlaw.

ericwt

If you're doing something that is illegal then you're engaging in a criminal act and ergo are, defacto a criminal.

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Originally Posted by LIP

As far as im concerned a crime is something that affects others. Smoking cannabis doesnt, in any way at all, ever imaginable.

Smoking a plant isnt a crime, no matter what the government say, it's only thought of as a crime because that's what they called it, doesnt mean it IS though does it?

It's the same with cannabis being called a drug, it's only because they called it a drug that people assume it IS a drug, but in reality, just because THEY say it's a drug doesnt mean it is does it?

No, exactly.

The government need to concentrate on making the world better, not persecuting a plant that has done no wrong.

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a man wankin in the bush over some kids is a crime but the kids dont see so they dont know so it dont affect them but its a crime :p

hehe im just messin with u,

i dont see smokin pot as a crime i see buyin it as more of a crime,

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Originally Posted by LIP

Why cant our governments learn something from Holland. They know what they're doing, and they got a great tourist trade from it, and people arnt getting arrested for smoking a damn plant.

When will our joke of a government learn... or maybe... it's all to save face? Cos they dont want to admit to the world they were wrong...one day... one day they'll be dead, and it'll be OUR choice to smoke dope.

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Well oddly enough, the rate of marijuana users in Amsterdam is actually _less_ than it is in America.

Well, they cant really be compared can they? I mean, look at the size differnce.

But yeah, probably because it's legal [Well, infact it isnt, it IS illegal, but highly tolerated] kids dont see it as something to take to look bad ass... unlike America and England and that... prohibition always makes things worse.