On 10-3-2016 1:03, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 09:28:50 +0100, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>
>> I have followed that with interest. Here (NL) we have been discussing
>> for decades whether weed should be legalised or not (while the rest of
>> Europe looked on with disapproving eyes about our semi-liberal and not
>> too successful experiments about it) without coming to a decision. In
>> the meantime, weed has been grown into something closer to a hard drug,
>> and one might seriously reconsider the initial question yet again.
>
> It's kinda a weird situation in the US, because it's legal in the state,
> but illegal under federal law.  That means that a lot of dispensaries are
> cash-only businesses because the banks don't want to risk a federal suit
> for trafficking "drug money".
>
> But most in the US these days see weed as no more harmful than alcohol or
> cigarettes (and some say less so), which does beg the question of why
> there's a double standard about it.
>

The difficulty seems to be the impossibility to really pull weed out of 
the criminal circuit. That is where most of the efforts fail in the end. 
Politicians hardly want to burn their fingers on the issue and - not 
irrelevant - the strength and resilience of the 'under'-world is a fair 
match to the 'upper'-world.


-- 
Thomas

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