It appears that Amsterdam's repution for the being the vice capital of Europe is under threat again. This time its a ban on the sale of hallucinogenic 'magic mushrooms', which until now have been freely available from certain shops in the Dutch capital.Maybe this is just the state ruining peoples fun again. Amsterdam is the only place the non-Dutch Europeans can go to try these things out and not feel like criminals. Sure people have had bad reactions and done some stupid things whilst tripping, but I'm sure the number of people hurting themsleves or others through alchahol is much much higher.
I find it a bit of a contradiction that in Sweden people think that if so much a smoke a spliff you become an out of control drug addict but at the same time it's ok for them to let their 15 year old kids get pissed out their heads at weekend parties on moonshine.
Seams a bit odd doesn't it?
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Interesting thing in the article is that it seems only non dutch people go insane from doing shrooms...
Yes smoking a spliff in Sweden equates you to a dead-beat junkie, I've never understood why though. We see the dead beats at plattan, whereas smoking students, hippies artists are behind closed doors - not due to heavy policing just a non accepting culture. Either it fear of the unknown, as Sweden has less contact with North Africa like Spain or France or as UK with its Jamaican and Indian population where marijuana and hasch are part of the culture. Is it a substance xenophobia? Or is it a form of puritanism which in a sense can be equated with xenophobia. Ive also heard studies that point to climate, for example in the US colleges in northern states, students drink and in southern states they smoke. I'm very curious to the answer of why Swedish culture is so intolerant of weed.
I find it interesting that when drug policys in the Netherlands are discussed in media they refer to Amsterdam, without exceptions, while coffee shops and mushrooms shoops exists in the entire country (more in the south but anyways). Its like they want to isolate the dutch policy to beeing a commercialized touristic happening instead of the country wide policy it actually is. And why does the EU with all its money and researchers dont do more studies on how these laws affect the behaviour of the people living there (and please exclude the crazy tourists in those studies)?? Regarding Sweden and its drug policy we have to keep in mind that the country belongs to what is called the Vodka-belt, streching from far east russia over the Baltics, Finland and the rest of the Nordics. Here Vodka is culturally accepted but any kind of drugs are morally and legally unacceptable.
its losin with 1 o, not loosing. Loose = Lös.
University students smoke weed regardless of where they are in the US. In Fact the northwest, i.e northern California, Oregon, Washington, is a hotbed for marijuana.
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