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The Amsterdam of the Rockies

Not quite as good as it sounds - you still need to get hold the dope yourself rather than buy it legally. But it's a big step forward for America.

It's already being dubbed "the Amsterdam of the Rockies" and an après-ski spliff is likely to become almost as common as a beer when cannabis possession is legalised in the hip mountain town of Breckenridge, Colorado, on 1 January.

Well known as a laid-back party resort characterised by baggy-trousered snowboarders and a vigorous happy hour, Breckenridge voted last month to relax marijuana laws.

From New Year's Day there will be no criminal or civil penalties imposed on anyone carrying up to an ounce of marijuana – or the paraphernalia usually associated with it, such as long rolling papers, a small pipe or a bong. That also goes for tourists, in a resort popular with British visitors who flock there for the exciting ski slopes and the exuberant nightlife.

"I'm already getting calls from people outside the state asking questions, such as 'Can I do it while I'm skiing?', 'Can I bring it to my hotel room?', that kind of thing," said Kim Green, spokeswoman for the Breckenridge police department.

The answer to the first question is no. The operators of the ski resort have made it clear that, while cannabis use may be decriminalised in the town, they are still able to ban it on the slopes under separate laws, and will come down heavily on anyone skiing while stoned.

The answer to the hotel question, though, is potentially a yes, provided guests can get hold of the drug in the first place. And that could be tricky. It will remain illegal to buy, sell or grow cannabis and also to display or use it in public. That means no Amsterdam-style "coffee shops", but the remaining restrictions in Breckenridge have not stopped campaigners making comparisons between the town and the Dutch capital.

"We're the second town in America after Denver to remove all penalties for marijuana possession and the first in history to remove all penalties for paraphernalia, and that's cutting-edge on a global basis," said Brian Vicente. He heads the pressure group Sensible Colorado, which is campaigning to make cannabis legal across the whole state.

Pot is illegal in Colorado under state and federal law. In theory, the police could stop someone under state law. But they have given no indication that they will do so. They will, however, be adopting "zero tolerance" for those driving while high, smoking dope in public or causing disturbances under the influence of drugs, Green said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/dec/27/cannabis-legal-america-ski-resort
 
Yeah, I move to enlightened Europe and there is no MDMA any where and Sarkosy is throwing pot heads in prison for years. Meanwhile, ecstasy is booming in the US and pot is getting legalized every where.

Come on you red neck, hillbilly Europeans! Get with the times and legalize!!
 
felix77 said:
Yeah, I move to enlightened Europe and there is no MDMA any where and Sarkosy is throwing pot heads in prison for years. Meanwhile, ecstasy is booming in the US and pot is getting legalized every where.

Come on you red neck, hillbilly Europeans! Get with the times and legalize!!
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try portugal :) everything decriminalised for personal amounts
 
Premier League Manager in Brothel

ok it seems aaages ago now.. i think it was Wednesday.

but did none of u guys find this a curious topic?

the reporters have his identity but wont be publishing it till they clear some privacy laws

it was in all the papers.

i read other boards online but they were fortunate i didnt have a login.

so y'all know who dunnit.. meant to be the biggest goss on the internet??
 
China executes Briton over drugs

A British man convicted of drug smuggling in China has been executed, the Foreign Office has confirmed.

Akmal Shaikh, 53, a father-of-three, of London, had denied any wrongdoing and his family said he was mentally ill.

The execution took place despite repeated calls from his family and the British government for clemency.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "appalled and disappointed". But the Chinese Embassy said Mr Shaikh had no previous record of mental illness.

Mr Shaikh's family made continued calls for leniency right up until the execution deadline, citing his mental state, saying that he suffered from bipolar disorder.

His daughter Leilla Horsnell said: "I am shocked and disappointed that the execution went ahead with no regards to my dad's mental health problems, and I struggle to understand how this is justice."

Brothers Soohail and Nasir Shaikh, who travelled to China to visit their cousin in prison and make a last-minute plea for clemency, said they were "deeply saddened, stunned and disappointed".

'Lethal injection'

In a statement issued after the execution, the Chinese Embassy said Mr Shaikh's rights "were properly respected and guaranteed" and British concerns were "duly noted and taken into consideration".

It said: "As for his possible mental illness which has been much talked about, there apparently has been no previous medical record."

A report from the official Chinese news agency Xinhua said that China's Supreme People's Court had not been provided with any documentation proving that Mr Shaikh had a mental disorder.

Mr Shaikh is the first EU national to be executed in China in more than 50 years.

Foreign Office minister Ivan Lewis said he was believed to have died by lethal injection.

His body will not be repatriated to the UK, and Mr Lewis said Mr Shaikh had been buried quickly "in accordance with the Muslim faith".

Mr Shaikh's family said he had been delusional and duped into a carrying a suitcase that did not belong to him when he was found with 4kg of heroin in Urumqi, north-west China, in September 2007.

His daughter has said drug smugglers in Poland convinced him they would make him a pop star in China.

'Inadequate interpretation'

Mr Lewis held last-ditch talks with the Chinese ambassador in London on Monday evening.

He said the government had made 27 representations to China in two years, and believed it had done everything it possibly could.

The execution made him "sick to the stomach", he said, and China "had a responsibility to adhere to the most basic standards of human rights".

The Chinese ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office.

In a statement, Mr Brown said: "I condemn the execution of Akmal Shaikh in the strongest terms, and am appalled and disappointed that our persistent requests for clemency have not been granted.

"I am particularly concerned that no mental health assessment was undertaken.

"At this time our thoughts are with Mr Shaikh's family and friends and I send them our sincere condolences."

Foreign Secretary David Miliband also condemned the execution.

He said the UK was opposed to the use of the death penalty in all circumstances, but also "deeply regretted" that his specific concerns in this case, including "mental health issues, and inadequate professional interpretation" had been ignored.

Conservative leader David Cameron echoed the condemnation, saying he "deplored and deeply regretted" the execution.

"It is appalling that the concerns [about Mr Shaikh's mental health] were not independently assessed during the more than two years [he] was in custody, and taken properly into account in the judicial process," he said.

The legal charity Reprieve had taken up Mr Shaikh's case for the family.

Through the charity, the family issued a statement thanking all those who tried to help including Reprieve, the Foreign Office, those who attended a vigil outside the Chinese embassy in London, and the organisers of a Facebook group calling for clemency.



They asked for privacy "as they come to terms with what has happened to someone they loved".

Katherine O'Shea, Reprieve's communications director, said it was "devastated" Mr Shaikh had been killed.

"That such a thing can happen in this day and age is really something that should alarm all of us," she said.

"This guy was a very vulnerable person, extremely ill. He slipped through the cracks of society, and he was frankly failed by China and by their legal system. And it's an absolute disgrace that he should have been killed."

Philip Alston, a UN special rapporteur, said the execution amounted to a violation of Chinese and international law.

International law "points very strongly in the direction" of the principle that the death penalty should only be used for crimes which result directly in the death of others, he said.

"It is time for the international community to mount a much more concerted effort to put an end to these sorts of executions," he added.

'Dark ages'

In its statement, the Chinese Embassy said Mr Shaikh was convicted of "serious" drug trafficking.

"The amount of heroin he brought into China was 4,030g, enough to cause 26,800 deaths, threatening numerous families," it said.

It added: "The legal structures of China and UK may be different, but it should not stand in the way of enhancing our bilateral relations on the basis of mutual respect."

A spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Jiang Yu, told a press briefing in Beijing no-one had the right to comment on China's judicial sovereignty.

"We express our strong dissatisfaction and opposition to the British government's unreasonable criticism of the case. We urge [them] to correct their mistake in order to avoid harming China-UK relations," she said.

BBC world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge said in the final appeal for clemency before the execution Britain had expressed the hope that its relationship with China would count for something.

"But in the event, its influence has been severely tested in this case," he said.

Charity MDF, The Bipolar Organisation, described the execution as "medieval rough justice" and an "absolute tragedy".

Spokesman Robert Westhead said: "The way the Chinese authorities have stubbornly failed to take account of this poor man's severe mental illness shows that China is still stuck in the dark ages."
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Its pretty disgusting :(

Was made worse when I saw the music video he was conned into making thinking it would bring about world peace, clearly being exploited :\
 
""The way the Chinese authorities have stubbornly failed to take account of this poor man's severe mental illness shows that China is still stuck in the dark ages."

I'd like to see these hypocrites get so indignant about the USA executing mentally ill people. Or the UK being complicit in almost 10 years of nonstop murder and brutalisation of defensless innocent people in occupying Afghanistan and Iraq. Nothing dark ages about that of course in the minds of these lecturing fuckwits.

I hope one day state execution is abolished globally as a totally a-political compassionate act of human consensus, but the UK needs it's own moral illumination to take place one day or it'll never happen.

"By end December 2005, more than 1,000 men and women had been put to death in the United States of America since executions resumed there in 1977. Dozens of these people had histories of serious mental impairment, either from before the crimes for which they were sentenced to death, or at the time of their execution. Some had mental retardation(2), others suffered from mental illness, and some were diagnosed with both."
 
Ceres you nailed it!!

politics can spin it the way they want.
we wont read wot u wrote on any mainstream newspaper over here, even though its true (especially the last paragraph).
shame this guys life kinda became a poltical dick sizing contest.

My condolences to the guy UK guys family, he totally didnt deserve it.

4kg? the triads doing 4tonnes! just today probably..
 
B9 said:
^ Fucking cunts - we should declare war on them now - I mean it's gonna come to that anyway given the size of the debt that's owed to them
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It gets more preposterous every time something like this happens, to see the government lambasting nuclear world powers like china and russia. I hope they realise those days are over asap before we become a total laughing stock.

Besides if we declare war they'll embargo all the meowmeow
 
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That'd be tactically naive on their part - imagine the fighting spirit of the nation if that happened
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Good point, an army of the countries tracksuited finest, so tough they'd rip their own scrotum off for fun, would have hong-kong re-occupied and the meow onto boats faster than you could say "can I borrow your cc again mum my geraniums need feeding".

There is definately momentum gathering in the press about the stuff, I've just seen an article about mephedrone in the local rag and it's the type of paper where the results of last weeks jam competition is frontpage material.

Between the Sun's ballbag horror stories, the ridiculous street names, the usual outright lies and nonsense like "Its chemical formula is one molecule different to ecstasy" being presented as fact, I'm starting to wonder when we'll see bernard manning on telly waving a box of miraclegro and warning about the dangers of made up drugs.
 
A line too far for Lidl as 100kg of cocaine turns up in banana boxes!

(Props go to Yerg who posted this in DiTM, just thought EADDers who don't frequent those parts may find it amusing too.)

There seem to be a fair few of these types of stories where there's loads of cocaine washed up on shores or found weird imported objects like this. Surely a lot of heroin is coming into Europe too but I never hear about any dog walkers finding kilos of smack on the beach? I hear a lot of the heroin that comes into Western Europe comes through Rotterdam and other Dutch ports, whereas cocaine seems to go through Spain. Couldn't see why this would really make a difference though?

It makes me wonder how many times this happens and the stuff isn't handed into the authorities...
 
Ascii said:
A line too far for Lidl as 100kg of cocaine turns up in banana boxes!

(Props go to Yerg who posted this in DiTM, just thought EADDers who don't frequent those parts may find it amusing too.)

There seem to be a fair few of these types of stories where there's loads of cocaine washed up on shores or found weird imported objects like this. Surely a lot of heroin is coming into Europe too but I never hear about any dog walkers finding kilos of smack on the beach? I hear a lot of the heroin that comes into Western Europe comes through Rotterdam and other Dutch ports, whereas cocaine seems to go through Spain. Couldn't see why this would really make a difference though?

It makes me wonder how many times this happens and the stuff isn't handed into the authorities...
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Stories like that make me angry. Why can I not discover these packages of cocaine? I used to deal with deliveries when I worked at PC world, if i bust open a PC box & found packets of ching instead I'd pick the thing up & fucking sprint straight out the door before any cunt could attempt to stop me.
 
DJ's Van Halen outrage

(Monday January 18, 2010 03:12 AM)

A British DJ has come underfire from mental health groups after playing Van Halen's "Jump" moments before a suicidal woman leapt from a bridge.

Steve Penk was broadcasting on 96.2FM The Revolution recently when four lanes of the M60 had to be closed because of the drama.

As police attempted to talk the woman down, a listener phoned in to request the rock classic, which was then aired.

Penk played it after expressing his sympathy for road users, but the unidentified individual then jumped from the 30ft bridge.

She only suffered minor injuries but the DJ has been slammed for his actions and accused of acting in "very poor taste" by Mind.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for The Samaritans commented: "It shows a lack of compassion and understanding".

Some listeners were also outraged by Penk's behaviour, with Lorna Guinn calling it "pathetic and nasty".

"It's irresponsible - this woman could have overheard it on someone's car stereo", she said.

However, Penk has insisted he would do the same thing again. "The entire area had been thrown into total chaos by a single troubled woman.

"I was very sorry to hear that the lady had subsequently jumped from the bridge but relieved that her injuries were minor.

"If, as has been suggested, the woman jumped because she heard it from a passing car radio that's unfortunate. But I don't regret playing it for a minute", he said.
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Bad taste?....probably, but hats off to him for not doing a grovelling apology that he clearly doesn't want to give. To say that the woman may have heard it from a passing car radio is utter shit. Some fucking people :|
 
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