@createdin1987 979117 wrote:
damn I wish I can live in Amsterdam like for ever 😀
The image of Amsterdam as a “hedonists paradise” is increasingly a thing of the past although it does still host more electronic music events than Portugal [in spite of you having better weather and more space in your country] – but even these are being restricted more as is the “gedoogbeleid” (which doesn’t mean widespread acceptance of drug use any more than it does in PT or ES).
when decrim started in PT I remember whoever was either President or Health Minister at the time saying they did not want their country to become like NL or ES (in spite of both these nations being similar culturally and linked by centuries of European history).
The same social stigma/shame/angst about drugs exists there as in your country – recently Tryptameanie posted a link about medical cannabis in the Netherlands; which is available and good quality but many patients who would benefit from it (especially the older generations) are ashamed to use it.
This attitude (and societies wider attitude to cannabis) might well change as my parents generations (who grew up in the 1960s/70s) become older but if it does it is likely to affect Europe as a whole
I would hope that some people wise up and think “hang on; now there are tens of thousands of new folk who want to be in Europe because bad shit has happened in their countries; who need space to live in peacefully. some useful work to do; and forms of relexation that are not against their cultural beliefs but do not cause conflict with the existing European populations. And what you don’t smoke can be used for lots of useful purposes that would reduce the conflict over oil and other minerals found elsewhere in the world…
