Quote Originally Posted by chris420
very good news, but i doubt it that this will make surrounding nations change their drug policies, mostly because the majority of those small countries are US followers. lets just cross our fingers and see
You're probably right, but for what it's worth both the countries that border the Netherlands (Belgium and Germany) might be headed in the direction of legalization, showing that some politicians are actually willing to learn from other countries' examples on this issue. According to this:
As of 2004, Belgium seems to be moving toward the Dutch model and local German legislators are calling for experiments based on the Dutch model.
It will no doubt take much longer for progress to happen in this hemisphere (goddamn Monroe Doctrine) but I think that eventually many more countries will realize the error of drug prohibition the same way they realized that alcohol prohibition was a big mistake.