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2. The first I saw of it was in Amsterdam.
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 12:10 PM
Oct 2020

It kind of broke my heart, since it's one of those structurally beautiful European cities.

I was there on a business trip, and my clients wanted to do the "libertarian tour," pass the pot dens, and those horrible prostitution houses, where the women - most very young, still in their teens I'd guess, and many obviously from the third world - were displayed like merchandise.

It broke my heart...it broke my heart.

There were a lot of stoners in the streets, doing nothing...nothing...nothing...which was the problem, the vacancy of it all.

What exactly was the point?

You cannot be my age - I'm a baby boomer - without having been around pot and its users. If one insists on doing that...well...I don't think prison is appropriate, but I don't want it to be easier to do that. If it has to exist, and apparently it does, I like it better hidden away. I don't like cigarette posters, and I don't want to add posters to them.

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