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"I didn't think it was legal in the coffee shops"

It goes something like this: in order to comply with regulations set out by the UN (aka America's bitch), the Dutch government cannot legalize the drug 'officially.' However, it doesn't mean that it's not unofficially legal.

This Dutch trip that the author took pointed out that, damn, the dope is more expensive there than in my hometown of Montreal. This is a result of the government doing what it can to prevent grow ops. So, while it's cool that they have the cafes, and we can drool, imagining how great it would be to have a coffee shop like that near you, the fact is that even they could use some improvement.

I think, were I so gifted with the choice of which country to have Canada's laws emulate, I'd go with the Australians and their self-supply laws. I know it's not the same all over the country, but nothing would tickle me better than being able to smoke my own natural reefer from my back yard, or closet, or whatever spare space I had.