Potheads detained in Warsaw

Police in Warsaw have detained dozen of pro-pot marchers for possession of illegal drugs, Gazeta Wyborcza reports. In any civilized country police should have been passing out reefers to mums and their kids on Mothers' Day, innit?!

Two people were arrested for attempted theft and possession of a mobile phone stolen . One - for illegal possession of ammunition. Among those detained was also the man who was to be brought to the prison.

And meanwhile, how much time has been wasted on these kids when the roads are full of dangerous morons driving 2 tonnes of steel in a dangerous, wreckless manner?

Priorities, priorities, priorities.

delphi always makes me laugh hihihi, for uneducated, or raised as a child of platoon , let me explain that the Police force has different sections of it working on different levels, you are talking about Drogowka, and they are constantly monitoring the streets for any speeding, Poland has roughly 500 speed camerac all around the country, one of the biggest numbers of cameras in the EU... to help block the budget hole.

Stoping drugs going to kids is one of the more important issues in the country, and should be treated as such... you want drugs on the streets? Go to Amsterdam and see what kind of people are going there, I was there in a schoold trip couple of years ago, and to see all those chavs either on high or just drunk with prostitutes, since they are also allowed there, it reminded me of Sodoma and Gomora, no thank you I don't want this kind of view either in Warsaw, or Krakow.

BTW, how many people turn up to this event? the same great number as to the "Ozel Mosze"- written by the language of our Great el presidente? about a thousand of office workers ? XD

LOng live the Freedom of the Third Republic, and who doesn't agree " To w ryja!"

Cheers to the right wing thinkers!

Oh dear. Goofy, you don't have a driving licence, you don't live in Poland - if you did, you'd know that the level of enforcement in Poland is pathetically low. Those of us that drive in Poland see endless stupidity almost every day - aggressive driving, speeding, tailgating, the list is endless. There are many roads where limits are completely ignored, where people doing 100km/h+ in 70km/h limits is normal. The speed cameras are meaningless, their locations are signed and they do nothing to prevent bad driving.

Trying to say that the police is divided into different units is nothing new - but if the police have the resources to bust a few kids for a few grams of weed, then those resources can be redeployed. Poland isn't the UK goofy, people don't respect driving laws here.


Stopping kids getting the drugs is one thing, but busting kids for possession of small amounts of weed? Really? Let's be honest, such policing does nothing to help matters - especially as these will clog up the legal system even more.


What does decriminalising the possession of small amounts of weed have to do with Amsterdam?


Sadly for you, Korwin-Mikke (a genuine right winger if there ever was one) turned up too.

Right wing stands for freedom, in case you didn't know. Your PiS variety stands for oppression.

Quite. And 'd I'd strongly suspect that the number of Poles who enjoy the freedoms of Amsterdam is much higher than the number of Dutch people who want to move to Warsaw.


Personal freedom, including a lack of state interference in whatever plant (whether tobacco or something more enjoyable( one smokes is something to cherish.

I couldn't care less about what people do behind closed doors.

Go after the dealers, but really, what's the point in prosecuting people over small bits of weed or otherwise?

Exactly. Either put it in the shops and charge excise duty on it or cease the double standards and criminalise alcohol too.

jon and delphi are correct on this matter.

There is plenty of behavior much more detrimental to others which goes unchecked in Poland than what these kids were charged with doing.

priorities indeed.