Whats up bluelight its been a while.
Recently I have been looking into alot of stuff about the government, media, and judicial system of the US and its really pushing me to considering moving to canada (becausd its the only country close enough that I could see my family a few times a year). Anyway I was wondering from someone who lived there how the drug laws differed and anytbing else you care to take the time to tell me.. im off heroin now so this is a real consideration and possibility unlike it woulda been before.. well once mycourt date/inevidavle probation is over at least (btw will 4 drug misdemeanors and a misdemeanor asyoult affect me being able to move do you thibk? I think I can get the assault off my record in fact I know I can.. but I dont think I can do shit about the drug charges)
Looks like this is my cue.
Hi, not really my first post here but my old account appears to have been frozen due to "abandonment" as per forum rules. Anyway.
To address the the topic at hand. I'm US born and bred, I served in the US military, my wife and kids were born in the US and I had plenty of high times in my country. That being said in the US there is a serious problem with drugs: hysterical regulation. No matter what progressive effort some individual states have made to address the issue in the end the Feds always step in to impose their narrow-minded, antiquated regulations. What applies to Boston also applies to San Diego, Seattle, Miami and everything in between. I didn't like that, didn't like living under analog rules that make a drug illegal before anyone even thinks of creating it. This will sound unusual to some who think drug users are mostly unproductive people who harm society by taking from it and not giving back, etc. What a load of crap. Personally I take uppers because they fuel my efficiency at work, which is far above average and has been for 30 years, and no one does that on motivation alone except those whose biochemistry produces natural stimulants at an unnatural rate. I do not have that luck and I consider that removing the right for me to obtain it by other means is not justified. I'm sure I could get a diagnostic of ADD or some other condition that would require uppers but I have neither time nor desire to depend on uppity paternalistic physicians for supply but I don't want to source unknown substances from the street either, and be hounded by the law for it to boot. There are perfectly legal powerful uppers available as RC's, but analog laws make that impossible in the US. It's different in the UK and Ireland but they are subjected to legal pressure from the EU where France pretty much dictates drug policies and France is just as bad as the US in this regard. This will inevitably have growing negative effects on RC supplies in the UK and Ireland. Not good, and I didn't really want to live on the British Isles because the culture is quite different, my accent would make me sound -and feel- like a foreigner, and you can't drive home from there. To top it off I just can't picture myself getting used to right-hand drive.
Then there is Canada. I'm from the Northeast, I know all about slush and snow that never melts for months, I was raised in it. In Canada I don't have an accent, people there speak just like me, I don't feel like a foreigner. Their cities are the same as ours, their cars too, even their general mentality and attitude, even their names, their faces: English, Irish, French, Italian, white, yellow, brown , black. They also dress just as poorly as we do so buying socially acceptable clothing is pretty cheap :D
But there is one huge difference with the US, drug regulations are much less anal and some, like those regulating precursors, are only vaguely enforced, if at all. But best of all for me there are plenty of legal RC's there, in fact UK and Irish residents mainly order theirs from Canada. Oh it's not out in the open but anyone bent on finding what they want can, perfectly legally. So I opted to live in a country with far less moral policing and harassment, when one can legally purchase and enjoy RC's for years before they get banned, and by then new ones with same properties have been developed. But in order to enjoy living there you have to be a legal resident otherwise you will learn that one aspect where Canada is a lot tougher than the US is the enforcement of immigration laws. Makes me laugh when Canadians complain their immigration laws are too permissive. They have no idea... an illegal immigrant under a deportation order will be sought after like a murderer, captured and jailed until the day he is taken to an airport, shoved on a flight, and immigration cops stay by the plane to make sure he doesn't get off it until it leaves the gate.
I never regretted moving here, it's just like home minus a lot of hassles. If you are an immigrant from places other than the US, Europe or Oz though. I guess it could be tough. While openly racist groups are no more (but no less either) prevalent than in the US in certain cities there are unspoken but very obvious tensions. While cities like Vancouver and Montreal (Montreal really has an uncanny resemblance with Philly btw) have had sizeable non-European communities for over a century, this is not the case for Toronto which until the 1970's was a very white city with the exception of the chinatown found in every North American city with major railway operations. Massive arrivals of Non-European immigrants in Toronto over the last 30 years was not always a rosy experience for locals.
