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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| The hate on Beijing here is pretty hardcore. If you want to ignore this link I posted, then you can have an eyewitness account. I was in Sanlitun'r bars on Saturday night. I saw black people come and go. No Mongolians, though. |
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4 months left
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd ban Canadians. They're the biggest drug users, then they rat out the black man !! . |
Actually #1 is USA!! USA!! USA!!
With the World's Highest Drug Use Rates, Our Fraudulent Drug Policy is Fully Exposed
Posted in Chronicle Blog by Scott Morgan on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 9:55pm
What could more conclusively demonstrate the embarrassing failure of our drug war than this?
Despite tough anti-drug laws, a new survey shows the U.S. has the highest level of illegal drug use in the world.
The World Health Organization's survey of legal and illegal drug use in 17 countries, including the Netherlands and other countries with less stringent drug laws, shows Americans report the highest level of cocaine and marijuana use.
For example, Americans were four times more likely to report using cocaine in their lifetime than the next closest country, New Zealand (16% vs. 4%),
Marijuana use was more widely reported worldwide, and the U.S. also had the highest rate of use at 42.4% compared with 41.9% of New Zealanders.
In contrast, in the Netherlands, which has more liberal drug policies than the U.S., only 1.9% of people reported cocaine use and 19.8% reported marijuana use. [CBSNews]
As Jacob Sullum points out:
�it's striking that the lifetime marijuana use rate in the U.S. (42.4 percent) is more than twice as high as the rate in the Netherlands (19.8 percent), despite the latter country's famously (or notoriously, depending on your perspective) tolerant cannabis policies. The difference for lifetime cocaine use is even bigger: The U.S. rate (16.2 percent) is eight times the Dutch rate (1.9 percet).
The Drug Czar's kneejerk description of Dutch drug policy as a raging trainwreck is thoroughly annihilated for everyone to see, and there's really just nothing else to say about it. Other countries are achieving much more desirable outcomes without incurring the massive social and fiscal costs of our towering war on drugs. Admittedly, Americans may possess a unique predisposition to enjoy these substances, but that's exactly the point; the more drugs we use, the greater the consequences if our policy towards drug use utterly sucks.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2008/jul/03/with_the_worlds_highest_drug_use |
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darkcity
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: SF, CA
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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can someone make some kind of racist comment about how blacks belong behind bars and not in them?
it certainly won't be me. |
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warren pease
Joined: 12 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Drugs.... yeah i miss America. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Man I wish the world was more like the Netherlands, re: drugs. I believe they got it right, and most countries are just dumb (never been there, just saying). I'm not much of a user, but damn, a man can drink and smoke himself to death, but having a toke is a big deal? Nonsense. |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| I think it's about time for an Ozymandias to rise up and fake an alien attack so all humans put aside the nonsense idea that we're fundamentally different and start working together. Humans are a-holes, I suspect that's why we haven't been contacted yet. If only we were all like Jodie Foster. |
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