Re: UPI: NL Coffee Shops restricted to Dutch

Op Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:43:22 +0100 schreef "Anneke Andriessen"
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>"Eric Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> 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
>
>I just saw on German (ZDF) television that influencial politicians in Berlin
>want a more liberal (after Dutch model) policy on drugs. Do they get to buy
>in a Dutch coffeeshop with impunity? Then again, we have EU legislation on
>mutual assistance in crime fighting and the fact of  legislation on free
>movement of goods and services between countries. With the further facts of
>life that Germany nor France even got a slap on the wrist with regards to
>their budgetary policies on the stability pact, don't hold your breath that
>Holland will pursue this coffeshop issue. We could either block the oncoming
>EU constution or we will fully legalize and tax marihuana.

Roaring mice..? 


>Anneke

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Btw, stop de war on drugs!
"Lievebeheersbeestjes"