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This blog is a record of my travels in Europe during the Summer of 2005. Countries visited include England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Vatican City, Monaco and Germany.

Friday, August 19, 2005

Cannabis College


During my wandering of the city I stumbled upon cannabis college. It was marked with this plant by the door. I went inside and discovered it was basically a group promoting the social benefits to the legalization of marijuana. It had a bunch of literature with statistics comparing drug addiction rates and crime rates in the Netherlands to the rest of the Western World. They had some pretty interesting facts and figures.
If you don't already know, weed is legal in Amsterdam and there are coffee shops throughout the city where you can buy and smoke weed. I wasn't too interested in the whole weed tourism thing. If I was interested in smoking weed I could have just stayed in California. It was nice to see how nonchalant the Dutch are about drugs. I think that some of the statistics shown in Cannabis College make a good point that legalizing soft drugs would likely lead to a drop in crime.

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