"I expect London might have the first legal cafe. Then other locals
might follow suit perhaps because of the revenue they'll be seen to
create? Or due to large enough demand?"
I'm basing my assumptions on this area on what has happened in similar areas on the past. While Andreas Whittam Smith was still chair of the BBFC (i.e. head state censor) I used to read his column intermittently in order to be able to harangue him with emails expressing my unreserved disapproval of his office. However, one thing he sensibly observed about was the number of comments directed at him concerning volumes of illegal pornography available; his point being that such trade was inevitable while local councils refused all permits to establish shops selling licensed 'materials.' It's a crude parallel but outside certain cities I suspect the same would happen to cafes (some currently exist but only as a legal anomaly; licensing could well reduce the number), though I suspect cannabis is the more reputable of the two ;)
"Why so?"
I'm partly thinking of Wittgenstein's observation that the ineffable is that of which we cannot speak, but also that most of our mechanisms for describing experience relate to shared sensory data or formal methodologies; I'm not really sure of any terribly adequate mechanism for describing the noetic (presuming that neural scans are not quite pertinent in this context). Without any even crude mechanism for that description what we are faced with is as close to solipsism as makes little difference.
I also meant to post this link (this one comes up an awful lot):
http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=39;action=display;threadid=17184;start=0
Re: Alternet article
"And Buddhism, of course, is legal."
I am shocked and appalled to hear this and will be writing to the Home Secretary to express my grave concerns.
"It's all too easy either to dismiss drugs as thinly veiled justification for hedonistic indulgence, .... One likewise ignores the harsh fact that Western societies have lost the ability to address the religious feelings of a considerable segment of their youth."
Justification for hedonistic indulgence has no need of being veiled at all in my opinion. Regarding the tragic loss of religious feeling my heart is bleeding. I weep for the world.
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