quittin' smoking

[Chris Rapier]

On 3/14/06, Jeremy David <epistemology at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps the ideal would be something like the "Coffee Shop" culture in
> some European cities (primarily in the Netherlands and Germany), where
> certain "Coffee Shops" are granted licences to sell not only coffee,
> but marijuana, shrooms, tobacco, etc. and to allow people to use them
> on the premises. This keeps it balanced. The people who want to go out
> to do drugs can do so, but the people who don't want to do drugs still
> have plenty of great places to go. Generally how it works out is that
> the coffee shops attract people who want to do drugs, and the clubs
> etc. attract people who don't want to.

Well, as far as I understand its not so much that they have licenses
as much as the government chose to decriminalize certain laws. The
laws are still on the books. Whats happened is that the market has
basically adapted to the desires of the consumers. Some places sell
dope and make decent money with it. Some places don't sell dope and
make decent money with that. This is pretty much what I would like to
see rather than have something imposed on us.

Again, I'm not a libertarian. They are crazy people.