cannabis

"...These days the hard drugs are gone, but he continues – against the Hollywood grain – to smoke cannabis. ‘I don’t tend to say this publicly, but we can see it’s a curative thing. The narcotics industry is also enormous. It funds terrorism and – this is a huge problem in America – fuels the foreign gangs. More than 85 per cent of men incarcerated in America are on drug-related offences. It costs $40,000 a year for every prisoner. If they were really serious about the economy there would be a sensible discussion about legalisation..."

In possession of some Chuck Norris buds maybe? Well, watch over your shoulder, because Chuck isn't pleased with this new Chuck Norris cannabis strain. And we all know you do not want to piss off Chuck. Besides, Chuck Norris doesn't get high... he makes everyone else low. (OK, stole that one from TMZ).

*BAD NEWS* 
The new Dutch government wants to make coffeeshops for Dutch people only by introducing so-called 'weed passes'. They work with these passes already for a while in a few cities in the south of the Netherlands, but now the government wants to extend this system nationwide and they're going at it at full speed. This means that Amsterdam will lose one of its biggest tourist attractions: the coffeeshop. A coffeeshop owner from Maastricht went to European Court, arguing that this policy breached EU laws on free movement of goods and services. Today the European court decided the Dutch government deals within its rights to introduce those passes. That's a green light for the Dutch government and a black day for all of us. Here the opinion from the mayor of Amsterdam who actually does understand how it works.
 

P.S. If you want to make some money at the Black Market in the future, you need to be real quick. I just heard that all Dutch streetdealers are fighting already for the good spots in Amsterdam... [/wink]

Decorating a Cannabis plant in stead of a Christmas tree? Of course, how cliché. Come on, let the dude...
 

Update: Another German dude in Christmas spirit. Those Germans really understand what Christmas is all about...