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Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by saiya-jin on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:33AM (#20644370)
Finally some sanity coming to good old Europe. Instead of making (rather big) part of the population automatically criminals, state 1) gets revenue (directly taxing plus new jobs); 2) can monitor usage, set maximum potency, strains, etc (good enough for most users); 3) takes significant revenue from proper criminals, local and worldwide; 4) makes various medical products more available.

Everybody, apart from organized and local crime, wins.

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Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by johnisgood on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:30PM (#20646548)
What is a "proper criminal"?
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Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by adrianN on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:35AM (#20644386)
The alcohol industry might also lose.
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Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by bregma on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:42AM (#20644452)
In Canada the alcohol industry has bought into the cannabis industry big-time.
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Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by qekbg on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:45AM (#20644480)
A rather big part of the population smokes weed? What?
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Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by flyGuyOnTheSly on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:21AM (#20644834)
14% of Italians have enjoyed Cannabis in the past year [0], I'd say that's a rather big part of a European country's population.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_cannabis_use_by_country

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Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by Kiro on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:50AM (#20644521)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/World_ma...
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Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by majewsky on Thursday August 08, 2019 @12:30PM (#20645981)
What's with Papua New Guinea?
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Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by qekbg on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:02AM (#20644647)
Wow, that is terrible.
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Re:Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis by bregma on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:29AM (#20645441)
> Wow, that is terrible.

Are you referring to the sickly green colour and unreadable size of the graphic, or are making a value judgement about the fact that there seems to be a correlation between national GDP and the use of a moderately harmless psychoactive drug for recreational purposes?

You could be less ambiguous.

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