Outside Edge: Nanny state has gone to pot

This morning, you can still walk into a “coffee shop” in Amsterdam and smoke a huge joint of cannabis for breakfast. You just will not be able to mix any tobacco with your cannabis. That is because the new Dutch ban on smoking tobacco in bars affects even that most Dutch of institutions: the “coffee shop” that legally serves cannabis. Pot is still permitted but cigarettes are out...

[when you cede personal choice to government, you cede it to governmental 'logic']

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