Why not legalise it indeed? It's unhealthy, absolutely. But so is alcohol, tobacco, unsafe sex and watching South Park and you can legally do that. Government will decide what's good for you, not you. Even here in the Netherlands it's officially illegal (although the world seems to think otherwise). Let's hope our next government will wake up to reality and finally legalise it.

Yup, "yet". But maybe this is the time where we actually do come up with something better. It doesn't make sense to slap a bracelet on a mentally deranged serial killer, tell him "watch it, cause we're watching you" and send him back onto the street. But doing the same with a shoplifter might actually be better than putting him behind bars for a while, having him loose contact with the real world. He may not be able to to any harm while in prison, but when he gets out, chances are he's not thinking "wow, that really taught me something. I'll never do it again."

To quote George Jung in Blow:

Well, I certainly won't use it. I don't use Google anyway, except their search engine. It took a bit of work, but even though I have an Android, they're not getting my address book or agenda. Yup, I might be paranoid (ok, I admit I am...) but Google knows far too much about its users.

As Eric Schmidt recently said: "At the moment we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are." And according to the article (and simple common sense), "Google would likely store more personal information about its users in the future." This new mailfiltering proves just that...

That doesn't spell much good for the future...