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This Is What Winning Looks Like | VICE | Canada
Pot gardens in police stations.
you can see in the movie Restrepo how hard it can be to win local Afgans over.
I can't remember where I saw it, but I've seen Canadian Forces patrolling huge pot farms.
Edit: My point on my original post was how ludicrous your allegation was about being a sex tourist, so the facts that you had been fighting in Afghanistan and you're liberal stance on drugs, I made a blind assumption too.
On topic.
They should tax those damned tourist traps and sex bars, make fees on visa's, then actually pay cops a decent wage. Then there wouldn't have to be incidents.
You've said it before, just because it didn't happen to any one of us, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. True. Murder happens in Canada too. But it doesn't make it an epidemic here.
To be frank, if it was such a huge problem, our embassy would be warning us not to go. Thus reduced tourism to their country, making it a problem for the government. At that point I would see a crack down on tourist abuse. Otherwise, it's just you foretelling a future that may or may not happen.
Edit2: I looked at those links you posted from those expat forums. Even the members there argue that it's not as bad as some of the other members make it out to be.