No Smoking

The Spreading European ban on smoking will include the famous Bars and Coffee shops of Amsterdam where pot smoking has until now been legal and accepted. The fact that the more dangerous pot is only being outlawed because of the moderately dangerous tobacco is a perfect example of the internal inconsistency of the Western Civilization where the government does not want to curb vice or excess but still wants to protect you from your self. And in the end these things tend to balance themselves out. The storefront brothels and the marijuana coffee houses were the show case of the Dutch sophisticated hedonism and now the very liberalism that created them maybe what makes it all fall apart.