Re: UPI: NL Coffee Shops restricted to Dutch

Phil Stovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

> 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
> 

Luckily there are higher powers than Donner, in casu the UN-treaty against 
discrimination.
There is no way anyone can sell to Dutch and not to foreigners.
Even EU-law forbids that....:))))

Now of course, since yesterday, EU-laws & -agreements are not even worth 
the paper they are written on, but still....

-- 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink

      The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand

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