Discipline must be tempered with dignity | Beppe Fenech Adami maltatoday.com.mt - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from maltatoday.com.mt Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Many voices still question why recreational cannabis should be legalised, yet few ask why the medicinal herb was historically made illegal in the first place. Now even the Maltese government is openly challenging the notion of the ‘gateway drug’ championed by so many American administrations
And just like that, we’re back in the 90s
There is a word for that, you know: it’s called ‘regression’…and it happens to be the very antonym of the ‘progressive’ label the Labour Party had so successfully campaigned upon at the last election
Raphael Vassallo
18 February 2021, 7:53am
Roadblocks. People getting arrested in hotel-rooms, over negligible quantities of cannabis. Prison sentences handed down to petty offenders, despite various complaints – often coming from the judiciary itself – that incarceration is counter-productive, and only adds to Malta’s overall drug problem…
Honestly, if it wasn’t for certain small indications to the contrary – like the speed of my Internet connection; or the fact that shops can now open on Sundays – it feels almost exactly as though we’ve suddenly reverted all the way back to 1994. And just like that, too… in the bat of an eyelid.
Der Poller – Maria und Josef an der Tankstelle in Bethlehem derbund.ch - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from derbund.ch Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.