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That's exactly what I'm saying. By reducing hard drugs to the same status that alcohol has, you are opening a hundred more doors for kids to lay their kid hands on them. And it's not the same if a kid stole a cigarette from his mum's packet and smoked it secretly, and if the same kid stole her dose of meth or crack. Alcohol and cigarettes are illegal for children here too, by the way.

This. Full legalisation would remove barriers that prevent more widespread everyday use of seriously harmful drugs, and the more mainstream and more easily available they become, the more fallout there's going to be - whether that's more getting into the hands of kids who think it's officially 'okay', the knock-on effect on healthcare provision, or greater incidence of people driving/causing public disorder under the influence. I'd hate to see hard drugs become mainstream commercialised. I'm not convinced tax here would be put into healthcare, social services or policing services, either, the emphasis on state spending is reducing the national deficit and keeping-up-appearances type spending like infrastructure projects and nukes.
 
Back from Amsterdam. After this trip, I'm not sure how I feel about the legalisation of substances. Weed is great and all, especially legal weed, because it is dank. Hordes of stoned people roaming the streets is another thing, though. I bet the whole cannabis culture is tiresome for many locals.
The trip was quite good. Despite the frequent whining of my fellow comrades (which I knew would await me), fun was had. Many amusing mishaps will be remembered, such as spilling over a glass of beer twice in the same bar (the table was crooked), or being terrorised by a hobo of Polish descent two nights in a row, or being stoned to the point of a panic attack in the Amsterdam Dungeon.
Amsterdam has a bit of a scary-large-city vibe to it, but it is a cool town nonetheless. The bike traffic makes travelling very convenient - awesome! The people are generally pleasant.
 
Cool cop!


Here’s your feel-good story of the day. A young rock band jamming in Compton, Calif., was recently visited by police, but instead of shutting their practice session down, an officer actually picked up a guitar to play Iron Maiden and The Offspring with them!

A local band called Misled Youth got together for the tried and true tradition of jamming at your parents’ house. While the guys were working on their playing, LAPD Sheriff’s Deputy Miguel Garcia overheard the noise. Garcia and his partner had just wrapped up an investigation nearby, and thinking the young musicians sounded pretty good, the policeman followed the sound to search out its origin.

Misled Youth had the typical reaction to seeing a cop roll up on their practice space — “Oh, we’re in trouble.” Instead of pulling the plug, Deputy Garcia told the guys he was a guitarist himself. “I’m not sure exactly what happened, but at some point, they kind of put the guitar in my direction and said, ‘Let’s see what you got.’”

The veteran LAPD officer ended up jamming songs like Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper” and The Offspring’s “The Kids Aren’t Alright” with Misled Youth:



http://loudwire.com/cop-crashes-band-practice-jam-iron-maiden-the-offspring/?trackback=tsmclip

(could not embed the video, there are a few in the link)
 
Got a new laptop at work today. The appropriate Maiden song is "Different World".

For a project I am working on, I need to use their laptop to access access their environment. Stupid thing is a Macbook .. such a pain in the ass, last time I used an Apple anything was in the early 1990s when I occasionally had to use the Mac Lab in college
 
I use a mac for music and after about 2 years of continuous use, the UI still seems counterintuitive compared to a PC.
 
How about Avenged Sevenfold's marketing move? They released a new song back on the 13th and said the new album wasn't coming out until December and just yesterday, it was announced the album is coming out tomorrow!
 
How about Avenged Sevenfold's marketing move? They released a new song back on the 13th and said the new album wasn't coming out until December and just yesterday, it was announced the album is coming out tomorrow!
At this point I'd say that's just standard marketing.
 
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