Party Vibe

@Digital Buddha 972954 wrote:

Why is the UK so far behind some other countries in the E.U. ?? At least in America our excuse is our only neighbors are fucking Canada and Mexico

I get the impression though MX is considering legalisation and Canada may still have less strict controls on some new psychedelics. However I am unsure these days (especially since CBC shut down much of their international broadcasting) what exactly goes on in Canada and what it has to offer the world nowadays; other than asbest and geese.

Often the politicians in England behave like that because the centre right politicians here try and emulate their counterparts in America 😉

Seriously though I can remember in the late 1990s / early 2000s how close the EU (then a new concept) came to decriminalising both cannabis and party drugs like MDMA albeit via somewhat flawed concept of neoliberal politics.

Unfortunately activist shareholders from USA IT companies who then had a lot of substantial investments in Europe threatened to withdraw these if it happened. This caused the “liberal” parties to get cold feet and stop this experiment.

In the end many of these investments and lots of jobs (yours too) went to countries with lower costs/standards of employment/human rights anyway and various wars / jihad started (not unrelated) which is the real reason why the USA and various other countries are finally tolerating recreational drug use as a lesser evil.

Currently the UK includes Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; politicians in these separate countries are less enamoured with drug prohibition. AFAIK it is the only union state in Europe since the fall of the Soviet Union; and if Cameron and the rest carry on like they are the UK may soon be headed in the same direction.

@tryptameanie 973618 wrote:

Due to the success of the blanket ban N.I. looks to be planning to essentially make a lot of them unbanned and allow them to become the trivial intoxicants people would like to use without risk of violence, shitty driving, bad dancing and hangovers that come with alcohol.

that might stop a great deal of violence/fighting there but the folk in IE would most lilkely still manage everything else; maybe with more enthusiasm as before (including religion, especially if psychedelics are tolerated). But at least folk might not fight amongst themselves and be less miserable about it).

@tryptameanie 973755 wrote:

And maybe predatory Catholicism may reduce.

to be fair that did start to decline since the 1970s with Pope Saint John Paul II starting to investigate and punish those involved (this is different to secular law which takes precedence; if the cops didn’t bother to nick these folk its because until mid 1980s basically middle aged men have power over everything and could do whatever the fuck they wanted. This wasn’t confined to any particular faith groups and as has since discovered is equally rife in “liberal secular” organisatons such as the BBC.

Decrmin (in any country) does of course free up a lot of Police resources that can be used for better reasons. I get the impression NL dealt with all its middle class pedos in the 1970s/80s onwards and most of them are how safely in jail.