On 3/11/2016 8:01 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 11-3-2016 6:31, dick balaska wrote:
>> Am 2016-03-10 19:42, also sprach Stephen:
>>> There is a lot more tolerance than there was
>>> when I was the age to smoke it.
>>> Or maybe it's because I live in London - Sin City.
>>>
>
> Tolerance is high here. I live in the countryside and a fair amount of
> youth, and an uncertain number of adults, use weed openly.

As it is here, now.

> However, there also is a darker side around with other drugs, and a well-defined,
> drugs-related, criminal nucleus.
>

Yes, and when they are forced to meet in the logistics chain. We get 
what you would expect. Youngsters  and vulnerable people getting caught 
up in something they can't handle.

>>
>> London was pretty tolerant in 05-06 when I lived there...
>>
>> Weird though, was Zurich in 99 when I had to walk past Needle Park to
>> get from my flat to the Hauptbahnhof.
>>
>
> All Needle Parks in the world are pretty dismal.

True, when I lived in Sydney and walked the wrong way down Victoria St. 
at the Cross, all you could hear was the crunching of needles. :(

> There are a few individuals that I cross now and then when going to the supermarket.
Not
> difficult to spot unfortunately.
>

Sadly true.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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