You sound like your not too fucked.. tell us more about your walhalla
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Well, An experience i.had,.which I find wonderful, even more so because im actually belgian, but often visited Amsterdam for drugs, later on studied in Amsterdam and eventually permanently moved there, with the main reason being Both the drug culture As the general way of being open minded in Amsterdam and every consequence of that, and i was up till then only used of living in a small city with generally small town mentality and narrow minded, conservative ppl and at the time I left Belgium was the first rize of the nazi regime and the start of the serious war on drugs affecting users a great deal, so a wonderful experience i had, i only recently moved there and i myself still was quite belgian actually, i was still exploring, getting to know the ppl and also still very careful,.i didn't really know what was generally accepted and what not and i didn't really knew yet hoe far i could go and i tent to be quite extreme in some ways which got me in problems back in belgium And I didn't want problems in Amsterdam this was a new start for me so i was afraid of going too far, anyway, in Amsterdam you have beautiful canals with Cosy spots to sit down and IT was summer and i had coke and i had It lab tested which was really new for me and I really scored top quality much better than Belgium and i even didn't had a good source yet at that time but at that time IT was really the best for me, and i was sitting at a Canal in a fixed bench with table in the shadow under a tree and i was chopping up some.lines and Just at time two cops walked close by, Saw what i was doing and were comming to me and i got quite nervous to dat the least, and they were super friendly and asked me which drug i was chopping up, i said coke, and they briefly talked about some risks and some things i should take in mind and they heard i was belgian so they briefly asked about my drug experience, and this calmed me down as i really felt like, tho i always AM a bit skeptical by nature, but in general i really felt as if they actually cared i had a good experience and they Just wanted to reduce the risks to avoid Any problems for Both myself as others and i Find IT very normal that they do so, they then asked if i got It tested and i said yes and the result and they said IT was not bad and they really showed in a very positive way some apreciation that i was sensible enough to get my drugs tested and their reaction really made me feel good, i think they also do this to motivated you to next time again get your drugs tested, that's quite a thing over here, and they told me to enjoy IT and know that IT is actually not allowed to use drugs in public,.but i did this cause at spots like this one i Saw frequent public drug use and very open not trying to hide IT, and clearly cops didn't really mind about this, and i was up till then used to get a fine for posession of drugs, if you got busted with weed they would take it and when repeater busted with hard drugs you would do some jail time, and now i felt so free, so safe, so respected even i was a junky and i felt so normal and accepted and It was such An epifany to me that things like this were possible, IT was also the first time I felt Any respect for cops, that i knew this was truly my home since already long time drugs were my Passion, but equally important how this open mind is extended to almost every aspect of life, of course this is a bit utopic cause you always have ppl that dont realize hoe good things are and have no respect and en can be problematic for example cops, what is very common is serious agression towards cops, i remember one time outside of a coffee shop and some maroccan parked a fat beamer in front of the shop but didn't play for parking, when they left the shop two cops were Just writing Them a ticket and those maroccan flipped and got seriously agressive, Yelling bad words at these cops Yelling they were going to kill Them and their family and the cops tried to simply walk away but they followed Them started to push the cops, kick Them, spit on them, took of their hat and trew IT on the ground and these cops didn't take Any action and kept very calm and friendly asking please To stop this and Just point out that this was not very respectful, but that's It, after a while the maroccan gave up and the cops Just walked on, and this is a problem as i see things like this happen quite regularly over here and mostly all cops are the same way, calm and friendly, imo they are allowed to act hard on this, these cops respect me and actually take in general good care of ppl, so they deserve a lot respect too, so out of this view i never did what some of my Friends did, we frequently went to illegal partied and often cops know a bit about this but didn't exactly knew where this party took place so they did some road control on important roads, so we in the car going to such illegal parties would often get stopped and the cops would ask what we were going to do and my Friends said in a bit of An arrogant way (dutch ppl can come across as quite arrogant OR even rude in general, but they are so tolerant that they really dont mind this from each other and they are this as completely normal, i sometimes still can be a bit offended by Them but i Just let it go) that we were going To An illegal party and if they asked if we got Any drugs on us my Friends would say stuff like shit yeah lots and stuff like that, and so on... Maybe its cause i Will always be a belgian but i like to think i AM Just someone that shows more respect to ppl and i actually care a lot about other ppl and so on but i Just never say things like this OR act this way, its Just not me and i also make IT often known to my Friends that i dont apreciate they act this way...
Anyway, so this mentality knows some problems, and we do have a large population of problematic addicts extending to a far older age than in other countries as we have special retirement homes for addicts,... But its definitely the best possible system I can see actually being succesful over a long period of time and that this succes is noticed all around...
. Brings back some memories of similar situations that have happened to me.
