Re: UPI: NL Coffee Shops restricted to Dutch

On 28-11-2003 21:43, in article
[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Anneke Andriessen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> "Eric Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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.
> 
> Anneke
> 
I am pissed about the broken stability pact for the Euro, and I think the
Dutch should use coffeeshops as a weapon, or even drug policy in  general.

1 coffeeshop and will be opened and leased to a local on the freeways to
France and Germany per day that Germany and France are in violation of the
stability.

For each year, one more drug will be legalized, starting with the return of
dried mushrooms, then XTC followed by LSD then Heroin and finally cocaine.


I cant believe that give this stability pact and other problems that they
-still- have time in France to whine about coffeeshops and the Germans have
even found time to complain.

Misplaced priorities.

EJ