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traxxe
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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Wow, that's absurd. Scambodia has many real problems to confront such as corruptions in the leadership if it wants to raise it's standards. Financial related crimes is center of most of their problems more so than a few tourists getting stoned though one must be careful to not get too stoned on pizza and fall prey to bad people on a mission to separate them from thier US dollars.
The only way any law is enforced is when someone with money hires the police to do a job, regardless of whether it is right or wrong. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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You'd think nations would look at the failed practices of the "War on Drugs" and learn something, but no.
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| Massive plantations which once required helicopter airlifts to clear them have been wiped out, he said, leaving the government free to concentrate on the increasingly prevalent evils of heroin, cocaine and synthetic drugs such as methamphetamines. |
No, you just made dangerous chemical drugs more prevalent since they don't require time and space to manufacture.
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| Back then, a compressed brick of marijuana sold for around 2 dollars, and a packet of 25 ready-rolled cigarettes was just a dollar, according to experts, but inflation and repeated crackdowns quickly pushed the price up to a dollar per cigarette. |
You made the black market and gangster-operated businesses richer and more powerful.
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| Many times I saw people take their clothes off after eating this - especially women. Some people laugh, but some cry, and some just jump in the lake,' he said. |
And this is bad because......????
Pot, pizza, topless women = revenue.
Idiots. |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
You'd think nations would look at the failed practices of the "War on Drugs" and learn something, but no.
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| Massive plantations which once required helicopter airlifts to clear them have been wiped out, he said, leaving the government free to concentrate on the increasingly prevalent evils of heroin, cocaine and synthetic drugs such as methamphetamines. |
No, you just made dangerous chemical drugs more prevalent since they don't require time and space to manufacture.
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| Back then, a compressed brick of marijuana sold for around 2 dollars, and a packet of 25 ready-rolled cigarettes was just a dollar, according to experts, but inflation and repeated crackdowns quickly pushed the price up to a dollar per cigarette. |
You made the black market and gangster-operated businesses richer and more powerful.
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| Many times I saw people take their clothes off after eating this - especially women. Some people laugh, but some cry, and some just jump in the lake,' he said. |
And this is bad because......????
Pot, pizza, topless women = revenue.
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The fact they use child labour to harvest the dope is good a reason as any to crack down on it.
Topless women goes against Khymer culture and is actually illegal for a woman to expose her breasts there.
Dope - so natural the children picked it. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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The fact they use child labour to harvest the dope is good a reason as any to crack down on child labor.
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I fixed it for you. |
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traxxe
Joined: 21 Feb 2007
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What do you think those children are doing now? Sitting at home, hungry, with a little less money.
Cambodia is full of child labor. Removing fields of marijuana does nothing to prevent child labor. Even if they replace the fields with corn who do you think is going to tend them?
That's just silly.
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Seriously? Does anyone think this is really true? I'm betting that the pizza and the pot is still there. |
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deadman
Joined: 27 May 2006
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: No more happy pizza and pot in Cambodia? |
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Anyone been since this article, in the past two months?
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Yes, and it's business as usual for the PP businesses, although there had been raids fairly recently.
Crackdowns such as this tend to occur in cycles, with the short term effects being nothing more than opportunistic revenue raising by the police. Raid some places, levy some fines etc. They often coincide with the major holidays of the year when the police need a bit of money for the festivities.
Official statements like those in the link are probably mostly going-through-the-motions statements to satisfy some strings-attached aid package or some other form of financial pressure from the US.
That said, in the longer term there is an inexorable change away from the wild west days to a more conventionally enforced drug policy, so I do expect open advertising of a "happy" business to go by the wayside. |
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deadman
Joined: 27 May 2006
Location: Suwon
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| Many times I saw people take their clothes off after eating this - especially women. Some people laugh, but some cry, and some just jump in the lake,' he said. |
Topless women goes against Khymer culture |
Many times I saw dope fiends furiously masturbating when they couldn't find a rape victim. Masturbation goes against Khmer culture too. |
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