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That of course is the direct result of impurities and other issues caused by illegality.

You didn't really think it through before posting.

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True. It's not a clean process if it's done outside a factory.

When it's refined for medical use, especially dentistry, the method is presumably better and above all quality controlled. I had a relative who worked, I think for Glaxo, making their local anaesthetics. When he was there , there were thefts of raw materials occasionally; the legal status does after all make it desirable for criminals to do that.


It's worked better than criminalisation, something that has cost untold lives and enriched the mafia.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Maybe a bit of Antarctica.

If they ask the U.K. nicely, we've got an island for them. It's called Gruinard and most of the anthrax spores from weapons testing on the island have probably weakened by now.

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Mate de coca is quite popular. It's on sale in Europe, as far as I know legally.

If people buy refined cocaine though, it's been made by God knows who with no quality control. Another failure of criminalisation.

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Foreign puritans pushed for decriminalisation. It was entirely about their domestic markets. The so-called 'war on drugs' has failed as spectacularly as prohibition of alcohol did across the Atlantic.

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


That and the British Armt (together with Polish forces) liberating Denmark which the r*SSian's were racing to try to take. It was very close; Denmark almost ended up behind the iron curtain.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]


You aren't. You're trying to defend an indefensible attempt at a superstate.

And going off topic since you really are obsessed with that trade bloc. I didn't bother reading the rest of your rant except for the bit at the end:


It very much is, since your system has allowed neo-Nazis in the afd to hold public office and brought your last government down.

FPTP means that despite all the r*SSian funded PR, Farage's people don't even have 1% of MPs, nobody in the upper house and control of no cities.

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That's no reason to criminalise something.

And no, it isn't 'doable' since the fact that other intoxicants are freely available shows that criminalisation isn't 'doable' at all.

In fact, it's a spectacular failure given the high level of financial returns that criminalisation has given both organised crime and petty crime. Criminalisation only increases prices and risks to users.


My great grandfather used opium for most of his life with no ill effects. He was both in the 1870s, died in the 1960s so for most of his life it was legal. He was a clergyman in a port city and found it easy to get in quantity from members of his congregation who worked at the harbour.

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Seems OK as far as I can see.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


If anyone's at work and can't open TV/radio sites due to being blocked and also wants it in English, this site should open fine.

"I remember how Jerzy was sitting in the apartment in the dark, freezing, in a jacket in the winter. He had no money to pay for electricity," added Kanigowska. Nawrocki has previously claimed that he personally paid for Żywicki's bills.

"Nawrocki just wanted to take over the apartment, and then he simply didn't care. I've never come across such a brazen fraud," said Kanigowska, who also claimed that Żywicki was even unaware that he had signed over ownership of the property to the Nawrockis.

notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/06/new-evidence-casts-further-doubt-on-polish-presidential-candidates-claims-over-second-apartment/

As I've said before, PiS (especially at local party level) is rotten to the core with corruption. Outsiders just don't seem to grasp that. I once used the term "PiS/SLD Mafia" (a translation, not my own expession) here and a PolAm that used to post here simply refused to believe such a thing could exist due to there being political differences.

Welcome to the Wild East.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [698]


About something being undeserved?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]


Konfa would be so happy they'd be drooling.

The appalling Korwin-Mikke (if he's still alive at the next German elections) would certainly have things to say. I wonder what.

News / Man with axe attacks people at Warsaw University [17]


Sadly so. Reuters said it happened at 6.40 and he was a third year law student.

Anyone who's OH works in a university in a job where he sometimes has to tell students things they don't want to hear probably won't sleep well tonight.

News / Man with axe attacks people at Warsaw University [17]

Vile, Presumably a psychiatric thing.

You read about things like this in the media and it's easy to forget that two families (the victim's and the killer's) have been devastated and awful for the security guard's family too.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

At least they didn't send tanks this time.

Seriously, I saw a couple of articles this week or last but was too busy to pay much attention. One said they hadn't appointed him Chancellor and one a day or two later saying they had.

He's sadly a conservative, however if he manages to keep the fascists from getting a foothold again, that's a plus.

Is he hawkish about r*SSia or does he have to take into account the views of those politicians that support it?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [698]


Potty is a cute word and also means slightly crazy. It's short for Chamber Pot which can also be called a Gazunder (because it goes under the bed).

The Polish word nocnik is nice. It was funny when they built the extension to metro line one in Warsaw a few years ago. The final station is called Mlociny, although in fact it's at least a mile from Mlociny village. They were going to name it after one of the streets it's on, Nocznickiego but people objected because it sounded like nocnik.

When I was new to PL and learning the language from scratch, I tried to tell someone I'm a Northerner. So made up a neologism, "północnik" and couldn't figure out why they thought it was so funny.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

Lovely. A superstate where the three main remaining (and brazenly self-seeking) countries have unstable governments, one led by a Mussolini loving fascist, one where the Rassemblement Nationale are likely to take power at the next election and one where the eastern half of the country votes for the AFD. Plus Hungary, Slovakia, etc etc.

That sort of superstate is best avoided at all cost.

News / Attacks against healthcare workers in Poland [142]


Millions in the case of alcohol which is legal.

Other substances? Why criminalise less dangerous things and allow criminals to profit.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]


Better growth than most other major countries.


That was sour grapes by the EU and is not a problem.


More journalism.


Yet we aren't poorer, especially compared to your own sluggish and failing economy.

You don't seem to grasp that it's not been a problem and there are actually some rather important benefits.

You seem obsessed with the EU, a bureaucratic trading bloc that bizarrely has aspirations to be a superstate. There are even some very dodgy politicians on the mainland who'd probably be happy if it were a reboot of the stultifying mess that was the 'holy Roman empire'. That won't happen.

In fact you're so obsessed with it that your every post today and yesterday has been trying to defend it.

Whereas the thread is about the return of fascism in your own country, something our electoral system (which the EU were even trying to interfere with) very efficiently prevents..

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Journalism.

As you were told, although there aren't many benefits in leaving that trading bloc, there have been some and there have been no drawbacks whatsoever. The country's doing nicely.


So that's a no then. Unemployment has decreased and people are not poorer.

And you're off topic; the subject is the re-emergence of fascism in Germany.

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


No, not when someone's started a war and in fact the internees probably wouldn't have all considered themselves the same nationality. Anyway, it wasn't one nationality as far as I know. Italians, Austrians etc were also interned.

By the way, when I was a kid there were quite a few elderly German men in our area. They'd been prisoners of war and had liked Britain so much that they stayed there for life.

Ducks and runs even faster!

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


Got it in one. The "triskelion" the symbol of the Isle of Man, or Ellin Vannin in the Manx language (similar to Irish)..

Manxmen and Manxwomen have Manx passports which back in the days of the EU were not EU passports. The Head of state there is the Lord Of Man (which is the King but didn't use to be). Man has one of the oldest parliaments in the world. It's a tax haven and most people there have roots in northern England. A cold and rainy place.

There's a connection to the thread. At the start of WW2 all Germans in Britain were interned there there, mostly in hotels, however since Britain has a slightly different concept of nationality to mainland Europe, they were sent there regardless of whether they were Germans of the Jewish faith or other ones; this led so some conflict among the internees. Even among the non-Jewish Germans there were ardent fascists in the same hotel as antifascist refugees. After a while the situation was resolved.

News / Attacks against healthcare workers in Poland [142]


Very true, however we can do our best to mitigate it. Jobs, hope, good housing and good education do help, unfortunately this isn't cheap and too much of society's money is siphoned off by 'investors'.


I've heard of but not watched White Lotus and would feel happier generally if my best friend didn't rack up lines of coke almost daily. I'll have a bit when I see him, however it just seems asuch a waste of money compared to the limited gains. A little baggie for the price of 3 bottles of decent champagne is a daft thing and the champagne is nicer.


Not only America (though coke there is far better quality than you'd expect to find in Europe); it's pretty well taking over western europe (except for France) and was barely a thing at all 20 or 30 years ago. If it was legal of course, the financial incentive for all the crime would disappear almost overnight and the coca growers would just be like coffee growers. Exploited still, but safer and not under the radar for empowerment and stability.

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


Who's "judging"? Evil is not a thing to pussyfoot around or relativise. Mistakes of the past are to be learnt from.


We have two legs to stand on, and three if you're Manx.

News / Attacks against healthcare workers in Poland [142]


Not so weird, since it's all part of a vicious circle which very few can break. Looking at the person's psychological welbeing and doing what you can about it isn't that effective when the person is still on their sink housing estate with no chance of a job and surrounded by people who are treading water at a level not much higher than theirs.

It's a generational thing, and it's also no coincidence that use of hard drugs (and cheap alcohol) increase when a town's only major employer closes.

You and I have a bit of get up and go. I got out of my ex-mining place, got a good education and moved abroad. You crossed the Atlantic and I suspect you're well educated. Most people aren't like that and have far crapper lives. That can't just be blamed on "poor choices"; not everyone is the same. If they were, we'd all be superstars.

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


It's a geographical term as you probably know and has been called that since long before the colonial era.

Any country on this planet or elsewhere that either gasses six million people or operates a Gulag system deserves far more than "the finger"

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I wonder if he was paid by r*SSians to do that?

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


Very true however I'd add a few centuries to that.


Exactky. They started it together with the Hun, both of them invading a country dear to us both in the same month.

News / Attacks against healthcare workers in Poland [142]


Apparently not very and many of those who get it take it because they have to. Dose reduction is all that really works and if course if people are forced into poverty due to smack being illegal, either you lift them out of that poverty or it just becomes a vicious circle

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Until about the early 70s we did that in the U.K.. It generally worked very well albeit being 'private' rather than NHS, however there was huge pressure from certain other countries to stop prescribing it to addicts.

The change caused huge misery.