Indonesians terrorise Australia by setting up tourists.

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thats terrible all right....thats just unfair for white people to be targeted like that.......thats just..well......ummm....kinda like what happens to non- white people here .

Kind of a straw horse, since tourists come in all colors. But Trae's post did single out a specific demographic.

But your (nevermind)

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i don't know what you just wrote, and i can't do the quote thing, but i swear to god i read a line about white cacasians being warned about traveling there. anyways, i don;t get so caught up in things that are a waste to think about.

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[Trae 1]

in reply 2 Waltappel's "I personally think all drugs should be legalized, even though I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs. I consider the "war on drugs" to be a war against the American people. "

I tend to agree wiyth this . Legalising or at least decriminalising would certainly change the current power base and perhaps reduce widespread drug corruption. Perhaps fewer people would even feel like using drugs if the world was so advanced and tolerant to decriminalise all illegal drugs.
A lot of the trap od drugs is that it's all so hush hush. If it was out in the open the usually tacky reality of heavy drug use would put most people right off.

A bit of the problem is that very few of us can remember when most modern drugs weren't illegal. I can remember when ecstacy was actually legal (1980's .. at least not classified yet )
Also LSD was quite legal for a while in the USA and elsewhere. Heroin cocaine opium have all enjoyed legal if not really acceptable status in the past.

A chemist fried of mine once told me that last
century before alchohol prohibition was replaced with illicit drug prohibition the junkies used to line up at his door in the morning to pick up their legal fix(es) for the day.
When heroin was made illegal they used to serve themselves by busting in at night.

Now he reckons it's just totally out of control compared to the relative control they used to have over drug dependent people. They gave them what they needed up to a point.

Many drug dependent types I've known over the years are now being legally supplied their tabbies by the drug companies. Often this is following a serious accident and the drugs are for pain relief.

It's a cliche now but drug use and dependency could really be treated as a medical issue rather than the police /law enforcement issue it has become.

A lot of police are very sick of being psuedo-nurses to the drug world. The underworld that has been created by the 'war on drugs" is also rampantly out of control with the whole thing looking like a VERY vicious circle which sucks in all sorts of victims... innocents and the 'guilty".

Cheers for the excellent replies especially from Gravitymaster ...most informative.

And by the way one of Shapelles visitors had a bag of pot slipped into her garment by a warden. This was found straight away by her kid.
Perhaps the law enforcement officer was just trying to help.

[Frenchy68 0]

I remember travelling to a North African country few years ago, and coming across 5 hashish dealers on the side of the road within 1/2 mile. Then, of course, a police checkpoint 1/2 mile further. I'd gather the dealers would collect all the goods thrown out tourists' car windows in the evening, and the cops would be looking the other way. Dealers keep recycling the same stuff while making money, and the cops come across as being "fighting drug smuggler" with their roadblocks (probably getting kickbacks from the dealers in the process), and occasionally busting a tourist not smart enough to discard the goods...
As for Asian governments being in on the set-up? I'd say fat chance. Most of these countries get a huge percentage of their national income from tourism, and would not benefit from driving potential tourists away.
However, in countries like China, which was used and abused (raped is probably a better term) because of drugs (in the case of China, Opium), it is still a very delicate subject, which will be dealt with very harshly. (Although you can pretty much buy any kind of drugs in China, Opium is still pretty much taboo...).

"For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

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I personally think all drugs should be legalized, even though I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs. I consider the "war on drugs" to be a war against the American people.

I agree, and would further point out:

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Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

US Constitution, Article III, Section 3