Brimz sorry brother, hope you have a good trip, thought you were there. There was a good report about some head visiting Spain and getting on a bus and scoring in ghetto area were dealing was rampant, but can't find it.
Charlie
That's you Louis, Ructions et al. Jspun is quite right.
So next time you get the gbh eyes from the RA, simply explain that you, not they, are in the front line of the battle against tyranny and oppression. I hope you'll live to post the response.
Well good point, thats why we have to go the grass roots route. I envision a movement based on non-violence modeled after the strategies Ghaddi and MLK. But as historians have pointed out if either had lived in Nazi Germany they would have been lamphades.

Question is if our societies and government have reached that point.
But the Good news is that drug users unions have made major improvements where constituted, like her Majesties Canadian Subjects in Vancouver when they came together collectively.
Excuse my yank ignorance but RA- Rulling Authority? GBH I'm sure doesn't stand for Great Britain Hardcore.
When one is detained by authorities in this country for an alleged crime the first thing your told is that "you have the right to remain silent." Thats usually good advice when detained in many countries (at least ones based on English Common Law.)
Runctions I predict that the situation will improve in Eire by July or August if not sooner, at the latest while supply lines bacome reconstituted. But the Garda might be too effective- being a cop is the major traditional occupation of Irish-Americans (So law enforcement it would appear is an inherent Gaellic trait, so hang in there given the reports I'm hearing from the UK. But i don't want to Jinx it.
The whole thing with Turkey and the EU is that corruption is systemic in that country. Entery into the EU might have been a carrot offered by UK authorities to facilitate cooperation.
Thought it was the European Union not the Aurasian Union (save the sliver of Europe in Turkey West of the Bosporous.) fine the Republic of Cyprus is within the EU (St. Martin in the carribean is in the EU.
As for escaping the great grear famine of 2011 by comming to the New World.
Here in Manhattan visited the East Village today, home of the hippie and then punk scene in the 70s-90s. Went to a park called Thomson square park. In the East part in Alphabet city were the Avenues go from numbers to letters From A-D there was a huge open air market pre Guilliani but its become Gentrified. Used to be burned out dope houses on Avenue C and D. Anyway strolled down to Avenue D- gentrification stoped and there were projects-our version of council estates but less dignified- apartment blocks for the disadvataged were on that street and people that looked like players. but no open air evident. Here Newark, Baltimore, Phillie (in the rough parts)- but I don't know how safe it is- Montreal would be the probale winner, maybe Boston. Would imagine London is cheaper if cost is an issue and that seems like a fun city.
Or get out of the game while there's time. I predict supllies should start.
trickling in.
Anyway Charlie- gonna do my part, I'm gonna visit the floor of the UN tommorw and plead my case.

Anyway, part of the issue is that the UN needs to adopt harm reduction in its language. There are certain member nations that have opposed this.
From opiophile 2007:
I'm going to try to update this periodically. This is latest from Germany's program:
Europe: German States Want Heroin Maintenance for Addicts
From Drug War Chronicle, Issue #503, 9/28/07
German state governments are pressing the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel to open the way to providing free heroin for hard-core addicts throughout the country. A bill adopted in the Bundesrat and supported by 13 of the 16 state governments would transform what is now officially a heroin maintenance pilot program where hundreds of addicts in seven cities are provided free heroin into a national program paid for by health insurers.
Established in 2001 in an effort to help hard-core addicts get off the drug, reduce their levels of criminality, and reduce overdose deaths and disease, the the pilot program was deemed a success by the German government in May 2006. Plans were announced to expand it from 750 to as many as 1,500 people, but those apparently never materialized.
A federal drug official who supports broadening the program, Sabine Bätzing, told Deutsche Presse Agentur, said some 3,500 addicts would benefit from the program if it were available across the country. As with the pilot program, only those addicts who had failed on substitutes such as methadone would be eligible for the expanded program.
Birgit Schnieber-Jastram, social-welfare minister in Hamburg, told the news agency that pilot programs in her state had reduced drug consumption and helped break the link between addicts and illicit drug markets.
But the bill to expand the heroin maintenance program faces the opposition of Merkel's dominant Christian Democratic Union, which objects to the burden it says it would impose on insurers and is instead suggesting more pilot projects on an as needed basis. The CDU also argues that the aim of German heroin policy should be to wean addicts from heroin, not maintain them.
http://forum.opiophile.org/archive/index.php/t-11576.html
merkel just seems to be such a bitch, excuse my language. The pendulum in the EU seems to be swinging away from harm reduction and pragmatic drug policies.
prices might not drop- look at petrol- speculation and perception of low supply or other factors are used by dope puryeyors to raise prices though availability may resume.