Re: UPI: NL Coffee Shops restricted to Dutch

On 27-11-2003 20:52, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Phil Stovell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031127-013137-1860r.htm
> 
> Dutch potheads keep 'coffee' shops
> 
> 
> BRUSSELS, Belgium, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Holland will be allowed to keep its
> "coffee" shops, where marijuana is openly sold and smoked, under a new
> European
> Union drugs control law.
> 
> Justice ministers from the 15 EU member states agreed Thursday to harmonize
> their national drug laws, and drug traffickers across Europe will face 1-3
> years in prison for producing or distributing drugs, including cannabis, coca
> and opium plants. But individual countries are allowed to set their own
> national rules on personal consumption of drugs, providing a loophole for
> Holland's famed "coffee" cafes.
> 
> But only Dutch residents with identity cards will be allowed to use the
> cannabis cafes.
> 
> Dutch justice minister Piet Hein Donner said his government would restrict
> coffee shop owners from selling soft drugs to non-residents, in order to
> combat
> drug tourists


It isn't going to happen.

I'll bet UPI anyone else -lots- of money on this.

The coffeeshops will take 30 years to shut down entirely.

EJ