Re: UPI: NL Coffee Shops restricted to Dutch

"Willem-Jan Markerink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
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> Phil Stovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> > http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031127-013137-1860r.htm
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> > 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....
>

even our own constitution forbids it.