It's false that the religion is dying in the Netherlands, fox only looked at Amsterdam. Amsterdam is our capital city and has the most etnicity of the whole planet. Smaller cities and villages have still got many religious zealots. Just look at Sliedrecht, Bleskensgraaf and Streefkerk; those towns are full and full of christians.....
I like it that the Netherlands are free and open minded, gay marriage is positive and the drugs have to stay(never used it tough), but when something like that is forbidden , people start to use it illegaly. Just like in America for example , and then the problem is even getting worse....
Well that's not entirely true. Religion is sort of dying here. Most people I know don't go to church here anymore (And I live in Den Bosch), then again, it's not that people don't believe in God and a religion anymore, but most people just don't go to a church anymore but still believe. Still, even if religion completely dies out here, is that a bad thing? It's a choice people make, and there is nothing right or wrong about this choice. You also shouldn't forget, the Netherlands currently have over...what was it, 170-ish different nationalities living here. It's hard to make a country Christian-only these days...because there are just so many more religions than just Christianity.
Yes we have prostitution, yes we have drugs and yes they are legal. But like said, they will always be there, banning it won't solve that problem. Yes legalizing it will make most stuff a lot easier and safer for other people.
And yes we have murders here (most of them are in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Haag though)...except...the killing counts are not nearly as high as in America though, or most other countries for that matter.
That news station was pretty lame.
And on that bombshell, I'd have to say...although some things are pretty lame over here, there is not country I'd rather live in than in the Netherlands.
There is a profecy that says: "Marijuana will help saving the world one day"
Well you can smoke it, you can make many textil products with it (US army uses it on parachutes and many other things), it grows 3 times faster than a normal plant, you can make fuel out of it, it's used for medicine since forever, it reduces CO2 like any other plant...there are more but I forgot.
Besides there was never a report in the world that even 1 person died because of over-consumption. So like Prosac said, it's really hypocritical that it gets illegal.
Problem is, most people doing hard drugs, start with soft drugs. And that is exactly what they are trying to stop. Except they forget, banning or not, people who want drugs, will get it. Legalizing just makes it easier to get, and a lot more controlable.
