Ron Paul, Barney Frank to introduce bill calling for legalization of marijuana.

Amsterdam legalized drugs.. They're a pretty well established city.
http://www.amsterdam.info/drugs/

Actually it is legal to sell it (special) coffee shops in the whole of the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Eindhoven, Maastricht, Groningen, etc, etc... .

You just have to get a certificate from the city counsel, and you're free to open a "coffee shop", though they are strongly checked by the police so nothing else happens in those shops.

It works perfectly fine, and it lowered small crime rate in The Netherlands to a point where we're even selling our prison cells to Belgium, because we have too few criminals to fill them up!

And look how well off they are.
Things are only addicting because they are restricted, it gives you a "rush".
Take a look at Europe, for example. Drinking is legal at a very young age, and you rarely see drunk people in Europe. Same thing applies here in Amsterdam, since smoking pot is legally accepted, not that many people do it.

Wait, you're Dutch too Locked? I didn't even know that! :+)

The only stupid part of the Dutch Soft Drugs system, is that it's only legal to -sell- soft drugs, but it's illegal to, grow, transport and sell weed... really weird. How are the coffee shops getting their drugs then? That's the odd part, noone knows officially, but everyone knows it off the record, it's grown (illegally, yeah that part isn't legal...) by people who need some extra cash...

There are plans for regional government controlled weed grow houses, so also the production and delivery part of the system is legalized, because the current system isn't perfect. Sadly, the christian fundamentalist part of our government is stopping these legal grow houses from being build, really retarded, but ok...


I really hope for the USA that this weed-bill will pass, because it -will- cut small crime like no tomorrow. You'll be amazed how much small crime can be stopped by this.

Not legalizing drugs won't make it go away, it was tried before in the USA, when in the 1920's the USA made alcohol illegal, but it only caused an immense rise in small crime and illegal alcohol factories, that's why this was abandoned. The same should happen to marijuana, it's for the best.