What's wrong with Stockholm?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/0...html?hpt=tr_c1

Come visit next summer :p

Would come next month, but oi the prices...

I bet it looks pretty good on Google Earth, too. In my underwear, with a beer, and some tunes. No TSA molestation or pronification required, and Google Earth is free.

If it makes you feel better, sex work isn't illegal in Sweden.

But paying for sex is.

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Originally Posted by Dreadnaught

If it makes you feel better, sex work isn't illegal in Sweden.

But paying for sex is.

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Really? :p Over here it's all legal.

Then again, it's legal to sell, buy, have, and smoke weed here, but you're not allowed to keep any realistic stock (so all coffeeshops have too much), or to grow it in realistic numbers to supply coffeeshops. And then they are surprised that the production side is controlled by organized crime...

Yeah, does seem like a funny/passive-aggressive way to ban something. "Nono, we're not going to ban you using drugs. You just can't have any drugs."

There is something to be said for not criminalizing use; I'd think it makes it much harder to admit to being an addict if you decide you want help if you're also admitting to being a criminal.

Right, and by criminalizing everything else about it, you get the added benefits of leaving all the big profits in the hands of violent thugs.

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Originally Posted by littlelolligagged

There is something to be said for not criminalizing use; I'd think it makes it much harder to admit to being an addict if you decide you want help if you're also admitting to being a criminal.

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Aye, but the more important reason is that seeking medical attention when needed has a lower threshold if it doesn't mean you will be arrested because of it. That's why using hard drugs is not illegal here (and possession of amounts that are obviously for own use), while selling and buying it is.

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Originally Posted by CitizenCain

Right, and by criminalizing everything else about it, you get the added benefits of leaving all the big profits in the hands of violent thugs.

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Plus the criminality and violence that comes with organized crime. My area has a low intensity drug war going on, apparently mostly about weed (though xtc and coke are also big here), which has resulted in a couple of murders, armed robberies, and a few houses that were shot with machineguns. Oh, and the mayor of a neighbouring city was hiding in protection for a while!

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Originally Posted by CitizenCain

Right, and by criminalizing everything else about it, you get the added benefits of leaving all the big profits in the hands of violent thugs.

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And ostensibly the for-profit prison industry complex