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Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands.
    #14578500 - 06/08/11 07:10 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

This story makes me sad, although I doubt it will go through in the city of Amsterdam.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/06/07/amsterdam.pot.shops.ban/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 ; :huxleyfacepalm:

Why would they want to kill their tourism like this.  It just doesnt make any sense to me.  It seems like for every step forward we stumble five steps back.  :notards:


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: The Inner Eye]
    #14578503 - 06/08/11 07:12 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

yeah thats dumb.  tourism is your economy, right?


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: The Inner Eye]
    #14578514 - 06/08/11 07:16 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

All the guys that hang around outside in the HUGE crowds which will still be there (cuz whores etc) will just sell to the tourists. 

Its the stupidest thing ever because how the fuck are they gonna stop the massive black market it now creates.  Its just opened a huge opportunity for all the dutch guys round there to make easy black market money.

Amsterdam is packed with people - probably thousands to every cop - no way they can regulate it like this its absurd.


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: nice1]
    #14578523 - 06/08/11 07:18 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

"The Cabinet expects that closure of coffee shops to foreign drugs tourists will ensure that they no longer travel to the Netherlands to purchase and consume cannabis. After all, many of them can use the illegal markets available in their immediate surroundings,"

LOL.... What a great thing for a government to say.  :lolsy:


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: The Inner Eye]
    #14578530 - 06/08/11 07:20 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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After all, many of them can use the illegal markets available in their immediate surroundings,"





Think they're implying that we can just buy illegal weed here in the US instead of traveling to netherlands to do it legally.  By cutting off that option for us, we would now have to travel to amsterdam and buy it illegally there --- which makes no sense to us.  If we're breaking the law, might as well do it at home.

smart from their perspective, but i dont know why they're trying to shut down their economy.


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: memes]
    #14578545 - 06/08/11 07:25 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Naaaa no way.  Theres millions of people from Belgium, Germany, denmark, france UK etc that drive to the dam to get their stuff.  They arn't gonna just stop going on holiday there.  It would still have a massive tourist influx even without weed shops but now theres just gonna be a 1000x fold increase in street dealing & underground coffee shops that serve up through in house dealers acting like they arn't a part of the business.

The weeds still there and so are the tourists.  Simples.  Its just gonna get sold illegally instead. 

Only other thang they can do is a massive security force increase.  They need to times the police force by 1000 fold or something.  Like they are gonna pay for that :rotfl:


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: nice1]
    #14578550 - 06/08/11 07:27 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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nice1 said:
Naaaa no way.  Theres millions of people from Belgium, Germany, denmark, france UK etc that drive to the dam to get their stuff.  They arn't gonna just stop going on holiday there.  It would still have a massive tourist influx even without weed shops but now theres just gonna be a 1000x fold increase in street dealing & underground coffee shops that serve up through in house dealers acting like they arn't a part of the business.





Which will result in a higher rate of crime, both violent and monetary.


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: The Inner Eye]
    #14578561 - 06/08/11 07:31 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Yep, I bet they revoke the decision after a year trying it out.  Only other thing they can do is actually shut down the entire industry slowly bit by bit and then it just becomes the same as everywhere else but it would take decades before it fizzled out to the same purchasing availability as everywhere else where it is illegal but available.


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: The Inner Eye]
    #14578562 - 06/08/11 07:32 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

the conservative party in Holland is stronger than most realize...i see both sides to the argument but I would like to see weed remain legal for everyone....I've been to Holland twice and have even applied for dual citizenship


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: Cherk] * 1
    #14578596 - 06/08/11 07:47 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Amsterdam (and all dutch coffee shops at that) has been a fucking tourist trap for at least 15-20 years now. If you are smart you go to Kopenhagen in Denmark instead and visit Christiania in Christianshavn. That's where it's at. They have their stands with different types of hash and weed right on the streets as if it was one giant pothead farmer's market. Besides that, Denmark is beautiful.


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: German Kahuna]
    #14578640 - 06/08/11 08:07 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

As if people needed to go to holland to buy cannabis. It's like the fucking hookers, no one needs to go to holland to get a whore. People do go there and might enjoy the services the country has to offer, no one's going there just for them though, isn't even worth the plain ticket price.


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: pouihi]
    #14578702 - 06/08/11 08:37 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

How exactly are they going to point out who is a tourist and who is not?  Is every customer now going to be required to show their ID before going into a coffee shop?  If I am gong there on business, am I still considered a tourist????


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: digitalemu]
    #14578717 - 06/08/11 08:45 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

probably if you're not a resident you're a tourist


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: digitalemu]
    #14578719 - 06/08/11 08:46 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Hey, here's an idea.  Read the article and then post.


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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: German Kahuna]
    #14578721 - 06/08/11 08:46 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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Amsterdam (and all dutch coffee shops at that) has been a fucking tourist trap for at least 15-20 years now. If you are smart you go to Kopenhagen in Denmark instead and visit Christiania in Christianshavn. That's where it's at. They have their stands with different types of hash and weed right on the streets as if it was one giant pothead farmer's market. Besides that, Denmark is beautiful.




Nice tip thanks :smile:  Yeah def a complete rip off.  I was getting same quality weed at home for less than the dam.  Even a can of coke there is through the roof - naturally though.

Its just the place people think of first really.  Sensible people go elsewhere but theres a lot hype.  You mention weed, whores and europe and its the first place that comes to 99% of peoples minds despite the millions of other places.  Theres the novelty value as well - of visiting somewhere so notorious.

In the UK everyone I know who has gone there has been only for the weed selection, whores and an interesting holiday.  I know lods of people who have been and not 1 mentioned the art or beauty of the city lol.


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    #14578747 - 06/08/11 08:54 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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Re: Tourists to be banned from Cofeeshops in A-Dam Netherlands. [Re: The Inner Eye]
    #14578754 - 06/08/11 08:57 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

No its not legal mate, its decriminalised.  Portugal has decriminalised as well.


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