Walter de Rochebrune wrote:
> bruce bowser wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 3:44:12 PM UTC-4, bruce bowser wrote:
>>> On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 3:11:10 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>> On 2021-05-13 1:32 p.m., Mike Duffy wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 13 May 2021 09:32:39 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2021-05-13 4:17 a.m., Sqwertz wrote:
>>>> laska (they huff it).
>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems to be very popular in some communities.
>>>>>> [...] there were people passed out on the sidewalk.
>>>>>
>>>>> In their defence I need to point out a tangential situation
>>>>> wherein I called an ambulance for a kid that had passed out and
>>>>> hit his head on the sidewalk from being drunk & sleep-deprived
>>>>> in a below-freezing line-up for tickets to see The Boss. All
>>>>> his friends could not wake him up. I had one of those
>>>>> at-the-time ostentatious cell phones, and offered to call an
>>>>> ambulance. His only friend who said anything was not to call,
>>>>> that they knew he was passed-out just because of how much
>>>>> alcohol he had consumed.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I asked her how long they were planning to leave him lying
>>>>> on the sidewalk before dying of hypothermia / exposure,
>>>>> especially considering how much alcohol he had consumed.
>>>>>
>>>>> While she was coming up with an estimate, I dialed 911.
>>>>>
>>>>> He woke while they were picking him up, but so drunk he
>>>>> couldn't understand anything. They checked his head for marks /
>>>>> bumps but they still needed him to sign a waiver. It was on a
>>>>> clipboard, so they just stuck a pen in his hand and then moved
>>>>> the clipboard around like spinning a cat's-cradle to make him
>>>>> sign a perfectly neat "X" on the form.
>>>>>
>>>> Well yeah, That is really in their defense. Unfortunately, it is
>>>> a community with high rates of substance abuse. They like to
>>>> blame colonialization and residential schools, but the fact is
>>>> that it started with their first contact with alcohol. Those who
>>>> whine about us not hnouring treaties should have a look at some
>>>> of the numbered treaties with the tribes in the west. They forbid
>>>> the sale and consumption of alcohol to and by the Indians because
>>>> it had wreaked havoc on them.
>>> Its the poverty whenever you see run-down places. Because there is
>>> drinking, gun fascination and and drug use among teens in all
>>> communities. There is no way to stop it. That's why legalization is
>>> gaining steam.
>>>
>>> If all that stuff is legal (like in many places in Europe) it
>>> actually goes out of style.
>>
>> In Amsterdam and Zurich, drugs and guns are legal. Nobody gives a
>> damn.
>
> Guns are not legal in Amsterdam. Drugs aren't legal either, except
> weed. Don't talk poop.
>

Have another whiff master druce.