Looks like the gambling comapnies have been caught on by the likely ban on online gammbling, noted by today’s issue of City AM. Of course there’s a deep vein of taboo culture running through US society as any fool knows. Takes drugs, the prohibitionist drugs policy is fundamentally a matter of taboo not rationality or taclking crime, god forbid. As per gambling. Shucks, I’m getting soo reductive again!
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Dance like an egyptian
Did you know that the Sarasani, oldest coffee shop (which has helped to control drug-related harm) in the Netherlands, is in Utrecht?
That Eagle Bill Amato, the guy who promoted the harm-reducing vapouriser, died just last year? (I’m pretty sure I met the guy, though you never know)..
PS: Napoleon’s troops brought cannabis use back to Europe after invading Eygpt way back in the day. It was reportedly an Egyptian delegate at some international drug conference around 1906 or some such date who lobbied for cannabis to be criminalised, along with the rest.
Photo by Stuart Glendinning Hall