Shoulda got their facts straight.
My mate used to live at 6 Cathcart Crescent, a local hash dealer used to live at 6 Cartha Crescent (which is just round the corner). One day in 1996 the DS show up at my mates house with a search warrant. After the mistake is realised my mate is straight on the blower "Ross get everything to fuck, DS on way to yours, give you full story later. Police found nothing. I wonder if this kind of mistake is common? Not a particularly funny story but Ross is a good guy who always gave decent sized bits, so it was great to see the police mess up their bust.
(trip2themoon, Fri 6 May 2011, 9:44, 20 replies)

It would have been better to see your drug dealer friend get arrested.

( JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Fri 6 May 2011, 9:47, closed)

Smack and crack all over this country but you'd target hash dealers. Nice...
(trip2themoon, Fri 6 May 2011, 9:50, closed)

Yes, let's all pick and choose what laws we want to obey.

( JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Fri 6 May 2011, 9:56, closed)

Ah, you must cycle in London

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 6 May 2011, 10:07, closed)

no
Fight against the laws you do not want. It's your world fuck nuts.
(waxdart hello., Fri 6 May 2011, 10:23, closed)

It's ok to drink your drug but smoking a plant that grows naturally is bad?

(John_Bonham's_snare gave you tinnitus on, Fri 6 May 2011, 10:32, closed)

It's the law
Whether you consider it right or wrong is irrelavant.
Have a chat to your bungee MP if you'd like to see it change.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 6 May 2011, 10:40, closed)

Mmmmm because the law...
is a perfect, infallable system and we should all blindly obey, or talk to our MP's. Obviously the only sensible solutions.
(Booce, Fri 6 May 2011, 11:17, closed)

Some laws are unjust
and should be disobeyed if the government refuses to repeal or reform.

I'm not saying Nazis, but you know, "Nazis".
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 6 May 2011, 17:35, closed)

Would imagine he & his colleagues are too afraid
of front page of Daily Heil - see class B/C fiasco for proof. Despite the fact that only ~5% of people have genetic susceptibility to develop psychosis, and only if they smoke highest THC strains heavily, frequently from a young age. Dutch mental hospitals aren't full.
(sarcastic fringehead feet of clay, buns of steel, head of lettuce, Fri 6 May 2011, 11:28, closed)

No, Dutch mental hospitals aren't full
for the simple reason the baseline mentalistness of the Dutch is much higher than here, because they smoke weed, which is why they pass crazy laws like allowing weed to be freely sold and smoked, despite the fact it is fucking them up to the point they don't know what constitutes crazy anymore, and aren't locking up all the mentalisms they should be.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 6 May 2011, 17:33, closed)

That is such bollocks.
Dutch law seems founded on tolerance - a 'What harm does it do? If we can't eliminate it, let's minimise it.' principle (Maybe a history of religious intolerance, war, colonialism & Nazi occupation have something to do with that?) If you go there and act like a twat; pissed, lairy, etc you will get nicked. If you're not hurting anyone, you won't. Even to the point where you're walking around barefoot with one huge dreadlock where your head used to be, talking to pigeons.
By the same token, in the UK, unless you are a credible & serious risk to yourself or someone else, you have no chance of getting an NHS psychiatric bed, no matter how shitty you may be feeling.
The vast majority of Dutch people work hard in regular jobs, raise kids/good citizens,pay tax & health insurance (another factor, to be fair) and their idea of a good night out is 3 hours in a restaurant/brown cafe - gezellig. Most don't, or hardly, smoke. Accurate, rather than scaremongering, education or larcenous taxation, along with consideration for others, make for a much saner society in many ways, not least in matters of substance use; one of the best places to be gay, disabled or otherwise different, Pim Fortuyn et al notwithstanding.
(sarcastic fringehead feet of clay, buns of steel, head of lettuce, Fri 6 May 2011, 22:44, closed)

Thanks, I already do

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 6 May 2011, 12:26, closed)

Doesn't everyone?

(Godwin's Lawyer is more evil than Hitler, Sun 8 May 2011, 2:56, closed)

Look! A giraffe smoking a pineapple!
(spaffwrap indulged his power socket fetish on, Sat 7 May 2011, 17:57, closed)

Hunterhill?

(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 6 May 2011, 20:51, closed)

LOL. Yeah. If you know that you may know the people in that story.

(trip2themoon, Sat 7 May 2011, 5:25, closed)

Nah
I just know the streets. My gran used to live in Cartha Crescent way back in the early eighties. Proper shithole, absolutely hated going there to visit. I did shit in one of the high flat lifts one time though, it seemed like the only way I could actualise my hate of having to go there and stay for days on end.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Sat 7 May 2011, 12:14, closed)

You
could've written a cutting sociopolitical comment on the lift door, rather than shattering your own dignity and other people's peace of mind by having a shit in there.
(SlantedScience, Sat 7 May 2011, 19:04, closed)

Give me Hunterhill over Feegie Park any day.

(trip2themoon, Sun 8 May 2011, 8:56, closed)