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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:36 am
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/canadian ... ution-laws
Canada legal update
The high court struck down all three prostitution-related laws: against keeping a brothel, living on the avails of prostitution, and street soliciting.
Pot still illegal
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Bob Juch
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by Bob Juch » Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:53 am
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://bigstory.ap.org/article/canadian ... ution-laws
Canada legal update
The high court struck down all three prostitution-related laws: against keeping a brothel, living on the avails of prostitution, and street soliciting.
Pot still illegal
In Canada pot is legal for medicinal purposes.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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BackInTex
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by BackInTex » Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:57 am
Bob Juch wrote:themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://bigstory.ap.org/article/canadian ... ution-laws
Canada legal update
The high court struck down all three prostitution-related laws: against keeping a brothel, living on the avails of prostitution, and street soliciting.
Pot still illegal
In Canada pot is legal for medicinal purposes.
So they can get it for free with their healthcare system? Doesn't seem like a good idea. Especially after seeing Toronto's mayor in the news recently.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
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Bob78164
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by Bob78164 » Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:34 am
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://bigstory.ap.org/article/canadian ... ution-laws
Canada legal update
The high court struck down all three prostitution-related laws: against keeping a brothel, living on the avails of prostitution, and street soliciting.
Pot still illegal
But is it illegal for the johns? --Bob
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." Thomas Jefferson
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by Bob Juch » Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:36 am
Bob78164 wrote:themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://bigstory.ap.org/article/canadian ... ution-laws
Canada legal update
The high court struck down all three prostitution-related laws: against keeping a brothel, living on the avails of prostitution, and street soliciting.
Pot still illegal
But is it illegal for the johns? --Bob
Not for the ones who have glaucoma.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.