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Which do you think will be the next country to legalize recreational cannabis?
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The West has lost the 'war on drugs', whatever that means.
The only way out is to regulate (and therefore tax) them. Cannabis is the gateway drug (pun intended).
I'm old and tried something mild ish when I young. It didn't really do much for me so I never went down that path. I don't even drink more than a unit a fortnight, usually I'm driving and I only drink socially. Just don't fancy it much anymore.
As far as I'm concerned, the benefits of living today are mainly being funneled to an elite. Taxes were mostly levied on companies and have become taxes levied on the individual, with companies not really paying tax at all. People are struggling to hold it together. Drugs represent escapism pending some kind of revolution.
I'm one of 'Thatcher's children' - A Gen X watching young people today giving up. If you had told me last century that I would have written such a thing today, I would have punched you.
I believe that the move left of the politics of today represents the population asking for help.
Alkohol is the gateway drug. Socially accepted everywhere. It's normal as a recreational drug.
They already tax alcohol everywhere as far as know. Maybe you're in the 'Mercan mountains and you're a moonshine master; but noting the instance and name probably not!
Hullo to Deutschland!
Whether they tax it or not doesn't change whether it's a gateway drug or not, which is all that comment seemed to be about