Uruguay: 1st country in the world to make it legal to grow, sell and consume MJ

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

WTF? Politicians more pro-legalization than the general public? That almost NEVER happens.

And what's with the 18-29 bracket in that poll?

The 18-29 bracket is still markedly more pro-legalization than the other brackets; it's just presumably less so than in the United States. I don't find that hugely surprising if Uruguay is this anti-legalization in general (which does, itself, surprise me).

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Best Korea.

so edgy

Not that this necessarily applies to Sagestalker, but you've never run across people who say this sarcastically?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I've never known anybody to say 'Best Korea' and not mean it sarcastically, but somebody has to be the first, and Snowstalker's as good a candidate as any.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Juche is far-right if anything.

Good. Not enough people realize this.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

'Far-right' may not be the best way to characterize it but its rhetoric for domestic consumption is profoundly racist and part of its practical manifestation is the development of a system of absolute monarchy in all but name, arguably both more absolute and more monarchical than any of the actual formal sovereign monarchies still existing in the world.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

'Far-right' may not be the best way to characterize it but its rhetoric for domestic consumption is profoundly racist and part of its practical manifestation is the development of a system of absolute monarchy in all but name, arguably both more absolute and more monarchical than any of the actual formal sovereign monarchies still existing in the world.

And trying (in essentially deifying it's first head of state) trying to outdo theocracy as well.

Yes, don't let's forget that. Christopher Hitchens once called it the most fervently religious place he'd ever been and although Hitch and I part company on an awful lot, including what constitutes 'religion', I get what he meant and he certainly wasn't wrong.