aPOThecary
The topic of drugs was unavoidable for anything Dutch </stereotype> so here goes.
These last few years the politicians have been trying to get rid of and/or make life more difficult for all sorts of people. I’ll admit it’s the government’s job to do all sorts of things including bad things. But based on mostly their personal views, they decided that it might be a good idea to have another look at the way the Dutch tolerate certain drugs. Some have been taken out like certain mushrooms but here’s a spark of good news concerning our old friend Cannabis.
I know, I know. It’s about medicinal cannabis. Last I heard about this was an actual cannabis distributing apothecary which was able to distribute to anyone with a prescription and some other checks, but all legit and all right with everybody. Now homegrowing cannabis has been OKed to some extent by the courts. Now the debate, which was pushed to the back mostly by panic mongering xenophobes, has now been given a boost. Win!
Personally I don’t really care who or what or why you do to your body as long as you don’t bother anyone else with it, unless they want you to I suppose. The same goes for my stance on drugs for the most part. Even so, the freedom to do these things to yourself without clogging up the police etc is something I really like.