The south will rise again

I hope

Today, only an hour ago, I was having my bread n jam with a glass of orange juice (with pulp) when I was rethinking some of the (not so) latest events that happened across the world. And then I’m for once not talking about all the horror that happens all over our ‘mothership’.

Let’s review those events, starting at occupy, where people freely occupied financial centers all over the world, experiencing a freedom as well as a loss of freedom which hasn’t been seen since the sixties, you could do anything. People got stoned constantly, being nice to eachother, really feeling as one, and then the cops got pepperspraying them . There was simply a vibe back then.

A year later, over here in Holland, the government tried to push through a law that prohibited non-Dutch people to buy weed. Also every coffeeshop could only have a maximum member count of 5000, which basically meant that Holland would also fall in the illegal-drug-country-pit. Luckily they never came further than the southern part of the Netherlands because there was an obvious rise in streetdealers in only a few weeks. So the ‘wietpas’ never really happened and even though we all knew it couldn’t, it was pretty scary.

Then there were Colorado and Washington, legalisation of weed, which brings forth the healthiest way to smoke pot ever. Dabbing they call it. Done in a professional way it can get you the best high ever because you’re only smoking pure THC. Unfortunately, the illegal drug business also wants a piece of the cake and they get their houses smoking in a butane-sparked explosion. That’s a recipe for disaster of course. A lot of people lose limbs or die in these explosions. And THAT is how you get weed to be a deadly drug. Of course weed isn’t deadly, but if you start producing it in labs in your own home, like you could produce meth or crack, then you give the government a reason to call your product deadly, and therefore, illegal.

From the west we fly to the south as we see that Mexico is looking into the possibility to legalise weed and stop the massive killing. Of course there’s no saying how weed is a problem for Mexico but I wanted at least a bit of an alinea dedicated to that beautiful country.

And so we go even more south as we land in Uruguay, where only a few days ago the government has fully legalised weed (only the senate needs to allow it still, but that shouldn’t be a problem) as they understood what governments here still need to understand: legalisation kills the dealer. Legalisation boosts the purity and leaves happiness.

As western countries seem to radicalize on infiltration of privacy and southern counries resist to the powers that be I get the feeling that new times are coming. Of course Brazil is still building it’s enormous stack of dams through the amazon, but I cant help but feel that south-america and southern europe will become the real free countries.

Europe wants unity and safety and is somehow trying to become the USA sequel, but when countries like Spain, Portugal and Greece get sacked like they did, they’re not gonna be at the same level of surveillance as Germany and France. Today’s youngsters will bring their thoughts and ideas to the negotiations one day and their ideas will get accepted. as the ideas of more surveillance get accepted over here (and don’t seem to fade away).

As countries like Mexico and Uruguay step away from the general policy against marijuana they also step away from the USA. Other South-American countries will see the decrease in illegal drug activities and therefore less crime, less gangs and less prisoners, so they’ll adopt the way of Uruguay because it could make them a stable country. And so I truly believe that these countries will be the free and openhearted countries everyone would like to see.

Even further in the future I see African countries joining the club of the free as I dont think the people of long-time tormented countries would like to join the country of their torturers.

The culture that gets accompanied with weed will then spread fast and people from industrialised countries will spend thousands of dollars in countries formerly seen as poor, uneducated, sick and violent.

Weed is freedom!