bende van linkeroever verdient 2-miljoen euro aan cannabis/hasj-handel

As a medical user I totally feel your pain. My biggest gripe is that I have to 'buy on the street'. Plus I can't even get sativa on the street easily.

Not to mention not getting backed by my 'ziekenfonds' because everyone believes people only smoke pot "to enjoy themselves". (also: lazy lefty deadbeats!).

But anyway, I can't upvote your comments cause I have no idea what you point is. Or which point your're trying make.

Yes wanting to use/enjoy weed for whatever reason can be pretty frustrating. Just the fact that you have to take risks, facing some level of illegality... I hate this the most.

The western world is good at creating problems where there should be none. And life is way harder on levels we can't imagine, for people who fall below a certain poverty line. And once you make a certain amount of money in life, (have a certain high standard of living), finding and buying drugs will never be a problem for you. And you'll likely never get in any sort of problems with the law, at least not for using.

(just for example: who do you think consumes all that coke in Antwerp? Won't be working people who struglle to make ends meet. It's the wealthy people, including 'BVs' who love a good snort).

I think most people know all of this already. Problem is there's still a lot of people who buy into "All drug are bad all the time, except my coffee, beer, and cigarettes" rhetoric everyone got indoctrinated with for decades and centuries.

Mix that with the fact according to the average common dumb "Vlaaming" (muh Flanders), famous/wealthy people can do no wrong. Because look: "they're famous/wealthy!". And you've got this type of system that is designed to keep poor people in check, so the rich feel "safer" when they're doing all sorts of drugs or shenanigans.

And you got this thick middle layer of politically-naive people defending it to the death, cause they all secretly hope be rich or famous one day. (they'll tell you you're just jealous when you criticize rich people).

It's simply gonna take lots of time for people to get smarter. That's how it goes with all our self-created problems. No?

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