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 Simplepowa
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 Study: Dutch 'weed pass' ups street sales 
#16536156 - 07/15/12 08:38 PM (10 months, 1 day ago) |
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, July 9 (UPI) -- The introduction of a "weed pass" in three Dutch provinces has resulted in an increase in illegal street sales of marijuana, researchers said.
The pass, introduced in May, is a mandatory membership card for people wishing to purchase marijuana in coffee shops in the Netherlands.
It is meant to keep tourists from countries including Germany, Belgium and France from purchasing the drug at coffee shops, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reported Monday.
Researchers Nicole Maalste and Rutger Jan Hebben, in a study commissioned by Epicurus, a private foundation, tracked the effect of the weed pass and said they found the emergence of a large network of illegal street-sellers of marijuana and other drugs.
"We want cities and towns in the rest of the Netherlands to know what they can expect when the weed pass rules take effect there," said Maalste, a senior researcher at the University of Tilburg, referring to the government's intention of using the weed pass throughout the country.
The study found that illegal dealers are selling more than just marijuana, "raising the risk that young people buying cannabis will come into contact with hard drugs."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/07/09/Study-Dutch-weed-pass-ups-street-sales/UPI-50311341835059/#ixzz20H79jXex
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Re: Study: Dutch 'weed pass' ups street sales [Re: Simplepowa]
#16536654 - 07/15/12 10:07 PM (10 months, 1 day ago) |
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What did they think would happen?
Ugh.
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Re: Study: Dutch 'weed pass' ups street sales [Re: Absent Minded]
#16537045 - 07/15/12 11:48 PM (10 months, 1 day ago) |
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Re: Study: Dutch 'weed pass' ups street sales [Re: aiyobro]
#16537995 - 07/16/12 06:35 AM (10 months, 1 day ago) |
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Fuck the weed pass.. Most coffeeshops here will end up not enforcing it anyway 
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Re: Study: Dutch 'weed pass' ups street sales [Re: Simplepowa]
#16549553 - 07/18/12 03:11 PM (9 months, 29 days ago) |
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Quote:
Simplepowa said:
The study found that illegal dealers are selling more than just marijuana, "raising the risk that young people buying cannabis will come into contact with hard drugs."
This country is such a great model for how prohibition doesn't work and the potential benefits of ending it. Why can't they SEE THIS@!?!?!?
But they'll just keep doing what they've always done, and wonder why they'll keep getting what they've always gotten. Maybe if they just do MORE of it, or do it BETTER, right guys? Fucking LEARN. Even dogs and chimps can learn via stimulus/response. They've observed the response to the drug war for YEARS. Is it truly paranoid at this point in time to suspect that maybe they WANT things they way they are, with the problems and injustices we face because of this war? (in other words, they don't care about the myriad problems because of how it benefits them?)
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