Dutch To Ban Drugs For Tourists

[MedicalNeed]

No more drug tourism for Amsterdam.

Amsterdam has long been viewed by the Western world as a haven of tolerance and liberality: Prostitution is legal, “soft” drugs like marijuana are sold in shops, and everyone rides bikes, a sure sign of left-leaning tendencies. But at least one of those may be curbed in the coming year: European Union judges ruled that Dutch authorities’ ban on non-Dutch residents buying marijuana and hashhish in the country’s famous “coffee shops” does not violate European laws.

The policy, already in place in Dutch border towns, is aimed at curbing drug tourists from nearby Belgium and Germany who, The Wall Street Journal reported, “have a reputation for rowdiness, creating havoc on the roads and in the city’s narrow medieval lanes.” Dutch conservatives have long chafed under the country’s liberal drugs legislation – attempts to peel back the liberal drugs laws are made every couple of years – but haven’t always had the political clout to do anything about it. This ban is the work of the new conservative Dutch government, a coalition of centre-right liberals and Christian democrats, who want to turn the nation’s 670 coffee shops into “members only” clubs. Adult Dutch residents would be issued a “grass pass”, an electronic ID card that will also ensure that no one buys more than their allotted five grams of marijuana per person per day.

So, is the Dutch government about to kill off Amsterdam’s tourism industry? And will this even be practicable?

Coffee shop owners are, of course, against the ban, as is the city of Amsterdam. Amsterdam’s Social Democrat mayor Eberland van der Laan told Monsters and Critics that the ban represents a step backward from a tolerant society and that the coffee shops make it easier to regulate the sale and consumption of drugs – without the coffee shops, drug dealers would roam the streets and harass people. Van der Laan also said that a quarter of Amsterdam’s visitors check out the coffee shops; though he says they don’t come for the coffee shops alone, van der Laan must be a bit antsy about the loss of the drug tourist dollar.


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[touwslager17]

Lots of stuff to add..

The government under which this is supposed to happen is a minority government which is Just barely standing.

The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, who supports this anti-coffeeshop pogrom (sic), still lives at home in his room with his parents.

Wilders is running the country by default.

It took 36 years to develop the coffeeshops, and there is an election every 4 years, unless the government falls, as this one likely will.

With the law suits from the coffeeshop owners, some of whom are owned by large businesses with deep pockets, and the objections of the Capital City's government and merchants, it will take more than the 4 years this government MIGHT have in power in order to close the coffeeshops.

In the mean time, the USA prepares to re-legalize cannabis...it is a fait accomplis, ladies and gentlemen...those in the DEA, DOJ, and other places where people's paychecks depend upon this sick prohibition will act as an insurgency worldwide, making trouble in the manner of terrorists in the Middle East in order to try and continue to justify their existence.

But as more and more of the bureaucrats and politicians retire, fewer and fewer will be interested in continuing this 100 year-old pogrom (sic)

Further, among all of the things happening in the Netherlands at this time, including major integration problems with Turkish, Moroccan, Antillean and Surinamese peoples, alongside overt anti-Jewish violence in the streets of the RICH areas of Amsterdam, causing one major and well respect politician, Fritz Bolkestein, to suggest strongly that Jews remaining in Holland have no future there due to this increasing and out of control anti-Semitic violence, and that they, for their own protection, should emigrate to the USA or Israel...

The same thing is happening to homosexuals in what was the most tolerant city in the world for homosexuals. Homosexuals are attacked during the run-up to each summer's ""Gay Boat Parade," one of Amsterdam's biggest annual outdoor events, attracting about 250,000 people to watch. Also whenever a group of young kids, many of whom likely have homosexual feelings they cannot manage to deal with, attack randomly if they see two guys holding hands.

The Dikes are failing, the traffic is strangling, and there is a piece of highway between the Hague and Rotterdam which has been proposed for 40 years but stopped by various lobbies.

Building this road, which is about a 10 Km stretch through Midden-Delfland, would relieve huge amounts of traffic which now has to brave the ring around the Hague, in South Holland, one of the most densely populated places in the world, or the ring around Rotterdam, which has Europe's busiest port, sending 10s of thousands of trucks throughout Europe...

When if this 10 Km of road were as big an issue as closing coffeeshops, Holland would save Billions of Euro in lost time due to traffic jams. And their air, which is worst over Southern Holland and Northern Belgium, would benefit greatly from the construction of this highway.

But no, legitimate work will not be done by this government until these unhappy campers, Rutte and Wilders, who are not old enough to remember when there were no coffeeshops, have to make sure that the pub which is 340 meters from a school gets to have an exemption to the anti-smoking laws in the Netherlands (which prohibit via punishment by fining people in coffeeshops, and the coffeeshop itself, from rolling tobacco (or allowing the rolling of tobacco) into their joints.) This exemption comes about because only the owner works there.

At the same time, a coffeeshop that is the same 340 meters from the same school must be closed.

This is the case, as was the case with the banning of magic mushrooms in 2008, when everyone in the country in health-care and politics, particularly city politics and police agencies, recognize alcohol to be a far bigger problem for Dutch youth and Dutch society.

France, however, wants Dutch people to keep buying its wine, while it demands that the coffeeshops be closed. The USA, too, which has a DEA office in Amsterdam and a pre-inspection area in Dutch harbors, in ordewr to pre-inspect cargo ships headed for the USA.

The DEA thinks if Holland shuts its coffeeshops, the world would be rid of cannabis.

This is the nonsense that the formerly tolerant Dutch government is feeding its people with.

They cannot or will not deal with the problems outlined by Pim Fortuin in his book "the trash-heap after 8 years purple," (meaning a government which had labor, libertarians, and the business party governing together between 1994 and 2002,) if there were any. I lived there from 1993-2007, and the 8 years of Paars were far better than the 8 years thereafter.

There were no political assassinations in Holland until 2002.


But things were way worse after 2002 than between 1994 and 2002, after Fortuin was killed for what he wrote, and then film maker Theo van Gogh was assassinated in a one-man 9/11, for a film he made criticizing Islam.

So there has been a return to the "VOC," times, with the VOC being the United East India Company," one of the main transporters and traders of slaves.

Nobody in Holland cares at this time about anything but making money, accruing power, and complaining about what other people do...without examining for one second their own disguising behavior.

Oh, I am nostalgic for the Netherlands of the the 1990s.

 

[420 stoner]

the DEA is fucking stupid ! cannabis is always going to be present no matter what ! the DEA cant stop people from smoking god's gift there fucking stupid ! HAHAHA ! the DEA should worry more about stoping he***n,m**h labs & c**e from being in the streets not cannabis,cannabis doesnt kill like them other drugs! & they say people that smoke bud get stupeder hahaha stupid DEA!

 

[African Dream]

It would be very sad if they close the coffeeshops before me and the Missus get the chance to visit. We are planning to do this trip within the next two years. So you friendly folks of The Dam have some time to stock up and start curing. Hehe.

 

[Boondox]

Had to laugh at the prime minister still living with his parents.

 

[jammie]

haha- i bet this is just a ploy to encourage more tourist to come before its to late

 

[WillyBudz]

Not a ploy, they have been trying to do this for a year plus.

 

[Blue32]

------------TO DO LIST---------
1~Learn To Speak Dutch..Fast..
2~Book One way flight..
3~Move to Holland/...The Dam
4~Get swipe card..:
5~Happy Days...

 

[Wreathy]

Well if they get there way and tourists are banned, I'm sure when they get to the coffee shop and the polite notice on the window says Dutch Pass only, and ya walk off unhappy. before you make it to the next coffee shop window you will have been noticed tagged and sold some by a street merchant.... I wonder how they will cope with the influx of dodgy drug dealers on every corner, harrasing the general public...