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Here we go again: Amsterdam 'to ban' drug tourism
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Articles like this pop-up in the press from time to time and they have always been, in my opinion, the musings of a drab, bored, wanna be journalist.

In the many times that I've been to Amsterdam there are always idiots (usually Brits and sometimes Americans) acting like fools. Ban tourist? Sure, right, great idea! Like that won't extend the already massive black-market. I'm always hit up in the streets by some African immigrant looking to sell coke, MDMA, and believe it, reefer! :thumbdown: (and I look like a straight laced, preppy white dude).

Ah well, here we go again....



Amsterdam 'to ban' drug tourism

Foreigners heading to Amsterdam's famous marijuana cafés will soon will be banned from buying cannabis in a bid to end drug tourism to the Netherlands.

By Bruno Waterfield
Published: 4:35PM BST 10 Sep 2009

"Coffee shops" where small amounts of cannabis have been legally bought and smoked since 1976, have become a major industry and a popular tourist attraction in Dutch cities.

But the Dutch cabinet is expected on Friday to introduce measures to prevent tourists buying or smoking marijuana as part of a major overhaul of the country's "gedoogbeleid" or tolerance policy on soft drugs.

The Dutch ministers of justice, home affairs and health will table proposals for legislation to keep foreigners out of the country's cannabis selling cafés in order to reduce crime and social nuisances.

Under the proposals, "coffee shops", that are licensed to sell marijuana, will have to introduce a members-only pass system to keep non-local or non-Dutch cannabis smokers from buying drugs.

"Coffee shops should again become what they were originally meant to be: vending points for local users and not large-scale suppliers to consumers from neighbouring countries," concluded a government commission in July.

"The situation has got out of hand."

One of the biggest problems caused by drug tourism is the influx of foreign tourists, including many young Britons, who come to Netherlands to smoke and consume cannabis that is illegal in their home countries.

The problem is especially acute in Dutch border towns and cities that lie close to Belgium, France and Germany.

Turnover of the legal "coffee shop" trade is estimated to be at least £1.6 billion every year.

New restrictions are also expected to reduce the amount of cannabis that can be bought over the counter, from five to three grams.

Raymond Dufour, of the Netherlands Drug Policy Foundation, is opposed to the new restrictions which, he argued, will be challenged in the European Union courts.

"We have a problem with European law here, as all European citizens should be treated equally," he told Radio Netherlands.

"It also won't solve the problems in a city like Amsterdam. Many tourists buy their cannabis in coffee shops there. If they can't buy it anymore, the sale will go underground as in many other cities in the world."


*** edit: just saw the like thread only after I submitted mine. Different news service but still it's redundant I suppose... sorry  'bout that...

Edited by grib (09/10/09 05:42 PM)

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Re: Here we go again: Amsterdam 'to ban' drug tourism (moved) [Re: grib]
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This thread was moved from Shroomery News Service.

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Redundant with http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/11033010

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Re: Here we go again: Amsterdam 'to ban' drug tourism [Re: grib]
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People are still calling it a drug, LOL.


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grib said:
One of the biggest problems caused by drug tourism is the influx of foreign tourists, including many young Britons, who come to Netherlands to smoke and consume cannabis that is illegal in their home countries.


So how exactly is this a problem? Money from tourism for the Netherlands, and legal weed for the Brits. A win win situation, everyone is happy! :bigblunt:

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