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With a Velvet Approach, Czechs Look To Revamp Vice Laws
Boston Globe ^
| July 6, 2003
| Brian Whitmore
Posted on 07/07/2003 6:27:41 AM PDT by Wolfie
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:27 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Walk into a bar or a cafe in some parts of Prague, and chances are you will bump into a group of students smoking marijuana in plain sight. Stroll some of the graceful cobblestone streets and alleys between Wenceslas Square, site of protests during the 1989 Velvet Revolution, and the city's elegant Old Town after dark, and you are likely to be propositioned by a prostitute.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: drugwar; wodlist
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posted on
07/07/2003 6:27:42 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: *Wod_list; jmc813; MrLeRoy
ping
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posted on
07/07/2003 11:33:51 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Wolfie; vin-one; WindMinstrel; philman_36; Beach_Babe; jenny65; AUgrad; Xenalyte; Bill D. Berger; ..
WOD Ping
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posted on
07/07/2003 11:43:11 AM PDT
by
jmc813
To: jmc813
back in the USSR, back in the U.S.back in the U.S., back in the USSR.........
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posted on
07/07/2003 12:02:02 PM PDT
by
vin-one
(I wish i had something clever to put in this tag)
To: Wolfie
the trend here with soft drugs and prostitution, as in most of Western Europe, seems to be liberalization -- which will allow the government to better control and regulate vices that show no signs of disappearingWhat are these guys, sane or something?
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posted on
07/07/2003 12:05:52 PM PDT
by
MrLeRoy
(The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
To: MrLeRoy
Bump for an article on auto-ignore.
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posted on
07/07/2003 6:43:48 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women[.] --Margaret Thatcher)
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