Frank
1806 posts
Jan 05, 2013
7:23 AM
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How'd ya like to gig there?
http://www.delish.com/food/recalls-reviews/first-marijuana-coffee-shop-opens-colorado
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JInx
362 posts
Jan 05, 2013
8:29 AM
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But the Colorado rocky mountain high
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
The shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullabye
Rocky mountain high
(Colorado)
Rocky mountain high
(high in Colorado)
-John Denver
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Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon
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LSC
352 posts
Jan 05, 2013
10:50 AM
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Played a coffee shop in Holland once, a blues festival they were putting on. Paid well but the audience was not too responsive. It was like they were comatose.
Did several youth centers as well which had in house dealers. That's were the "legal" selling of pot started in Holland, in the youth centers. The crowds there were very enthusiastic but then they sold beer as well.
One of the great misunderstandings about Holland is the idea that you can smoke anywhere and that it's rampant. It's actually fairly restricted, especially in bars. The interesting thing is that the Dutch attitude is that if you're older than 20 and still smoking pot it's a bit childish. They have the lowest rate of addiction in the industrial world. The average age of what addicts they do have is relatively old as well. In the late 30s as opposed to teens and early 20s of most other countries.
The Dutch have a very pragmatic attitude to vice in general. They realize the obvious, that never in the history of mankind has anyone ever eradicated any of the common vices such as prostitution or getting high. The best a government or a society can do is to educate and attempt some control. Making such activities criminal does nothing but create criminals of the otherwise law abiding, put a huge some of money into the genuine criminal class, and create a whole range of problems much worse than the vice one is trying to "stamp out".
As someone once said, - after taking a deep breath, than another, then holding it - "Drug war? I didn't know I was at war let alone winning it?"
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LSC
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geordiebluesman
653 posts
Jan 05, 2013
3:46 PM
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LSC, you said it mate! wise words indeed, when is society gonna wake up to the fact that people enjoy having sex and getting high,and why should one high be legal and one not.
Not every one is good looking or at ease with the other sex so why not have legal sex workers to give those people the pleasure the rest of us can get through a relationship?
I have a very disabled terminaly ill friend who was once an able bodied dope smoking beer drinking girl pulling jack the lad, now he is paralised blind and mute but he is still the same guy inside so we took him to Amsterdam 2 years back and got him high and got him laid,thank fuck for the Dutch! he had one last mad weekend with the lads before he became bedridden.
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LSC
353 posts
Jan 05, 2013
5:32 PM
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@geordiebluesman - Taking your mate to Amsterdam was a brilliant move. The dude was very lucky indeed to have friends like you.
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LSC
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markdc70
123 posts
Jan 06, 2013
8:04 PM
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You haven't done many drugs have you Stan? ;) Seem to be a bit confused over the methods of delivery!
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Steamrollin Stan
677 posts
Jan 06, 2013
8:30 PM
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I remember sgt Stadenco from cheesh and chong once quoted "only dopes smoke dope"....that was enough to convince me ;)
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Hobostubs Ashlock
1992 posts
Jan 06, 2013
8:58 PM
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I think its so cool that WA,and CO voted to legalize,It will definetly bring the issue to a head one way or another.
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Hobostubs
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