He travelled over 4,000 miles at taxpayer's expense...but never set foot in a single 'coffeeshop'. Where he would have learned the truth in an instant.

(Presupposing, of course, that that was his intent. Meself, I rather doubt it. Also, he would have been recognized and accosted by those Americans there who would have been happy to tell this bald-faced liar in front of an international clientele that he and his anti friends are flaming poepjegaaten.)

Yet this Brit hops the ferry, makes a stop in Amsterdam, has a look around, gets an eyeful of the success of the Dutch...and goes home and tells the friggin' truth. What's more, he keeps on telling it.

Don't forget, buying under prohibition is inherently
riskier. Smoking moldy weed is bad for you, and
there's a lot of other things that can happen in transit as
well which you'll never know about thanks to the black
market status. Once cannabis is legalized, a lot of
people will discover they've been ingesting the herbal
equivalent of spoiled milk... but once it's legally
available, they never will have to again.

They also won't have to treasure it, and ingest it in the
most efficient ways because it's so expensive. People
could vaporize, eat, or even make cannabis beverages,
depending on what system of ingestion worked best for
their needs. And people could learn about all this
without the fear of reprisal from their own government
and police.