Prohibitionism doesn't work

Mark Steyn, amidst his usual anti-Islamism rantings:

'You can be a hippie-dippy hey-man-I-love-everybody-whatever-your-bag-is-cool backpacking Dutch stoner, and they'll blow you up with as much enthusiasm as if you were Dick Cheney.'

He has a point there. I used marihuana (oops, there goes my shot at the American presidency, even if the Schwarzenegger Amendment gets through) a total of six times in my life. Five of those were in Australia, when I was indeed backpacking, and where (the ACT and Nimbin excepted) marihuana is looked down upon a lot more than here. I never had to buy it myself. There was always an Englishman, American or Ozzie around distributing the stuff, eager to share the proverbial forbidden herbs (or was that fruits? orang-utans? sloths?).

It just isn't as much fun when the authorities/your parents/the neighbours don't frown upon you using the stuff.

Now where did I leave that heroin syringe.

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