So did South Africa and Nazi Germany. So does Canada.
Indeed, it is a normal country, with free thinking people. Canada has amazing weed, and you must be
very well aware of that.
So who cares.
I do, the pot smoking community and you, obviously.
What's important is the legal structures that are in place, and how they impact the people who were living there (and are still living there). This includes all of the Palestinians, and not just the ones who are living in specific bantustans on the sides of Jew-only highways in the West Bank.
The legal structure is alright, actually, but the people should care about it more. In other words, Israelis should take responsibility in condemning openly those few settlers that harass and make the lives of certain Palestinians utterly humiliating. The fact that people don't care enough is disgusting and disturbing. Also, why do you call the areas Palestinians live in bantustans? A bantustan, as a concept, is quite different even at its premise, or are you saying Palestinian tribes are different nations that Israel is dividing up so they won't have national unity or something? Not happening; The idea was a Palestinian state, which is undivided and contiguous, so it can be economically viable and functioning. Indeed, we should do our utmost here, with our Palestinian brethren to
speed up the legalization of marijuana so we can get the scourge of this immoral law rectified. The theory by the the weed smoking party here is that if we legalize weed, the Arabs will have too much excess hash that they'll have to smoke it. I guess they'd chill out more, yeah?
On a side note, which would belong in another thread, do you think we should abolish "the occupation" and incorporate all of the Palestinians as equal citizens of the state of Israel? Or what do you suggest?