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TanzanianMagic

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Ventricosa said:
"<i>directed 20 guys with boxcutters to make it past a $1 trillion air defense system called NORAD</i>"

Those were commercial airliners, genius. NORAD had nothing to do with it, except to look at the smoking holes in the ground after the airliners hit.
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NORAD doesn't do ground inspections. :rolleyes:

They intercept planes while they are in flight and off course (except on 9/11 2001). If you don't know that, don't bother to comment.
 
Gastro

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Another Update Here
The Local VVD (Biggest Party in the Cabinet) of Amsterdam refuses to accept the Weedpass and is finding support with the local Labour party (PvdA). As the situation and problems in Amsterdam are different from the Border areas. They have tourists and they dont have drugshoppers as for the ban for tourists to enter a coffeeshop would only create more problems for the situation in Amsterdam.

We can be happy that not all intelligence as left the council of Amsterdam.
 
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David762 said:
I presume that yours was a rhetorical question, though, because the answer is "YES! ... Absolutely YES!". The USA is the single largest contributor to the United Nations, and was instrumental in passage of the UN Single Convention on Narcotics. And the USA continues to support a global War on Drugs through a number of venues -- DEA, FBI, USAID, War on/of Terror leverage, DoD and DHS grants, etcetera.

This massive coordinated effort is, of course, hypocritical considering the US government's own long involvement in the illicit drug trade. This hubris is dismissed with excuses about American Exceptionalism, the USA's role as the "World's Policeman", or else Imperialism disguised as "Globalization". All of this will end, of course -- it has to.
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Maxine Waters' testimony in front of Porter Goss and Nancy Pelosi - the late Gary Webb sits right behind her:

Rep. Maxine Waters on CIA Drug Trafficking Part 1 of 4
Rep. Maxine Waters on CIA Drug Trafficking Part 2 of 4
Rep. Maxine Waters on CIA Drug Trafficking Part 3 of 4
Rep. Maxine Waters on CIA Drug Trafficking Part 4 of 4
 
mriko

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Court backs tourist ban for Dutch cannabis coffee shops

Court backs tourist ban for Dutch cannabis coffee shops

Not good...


Court backs tourist ban for Dutch cannabis coffee shops

The European Court of Justice has ruled that Dutch authorities can bar foreigners from cannabis-selling coffee shops.

The court said the city of Maastricht was within its rights when it passed a 2005 law stopping foreigners entering cafes that sell marijuana.

The law was aimed at curbing so-called drug tourists driving from Belgium and Germany to buy marijuana.

Correspondents say the government wants to extend the restrictions nationwide.

There are some 700 coffee shops in the Netherlands. The cultivation and sale of soft drugs through them is decriminalised but not legal.

The owner of a Maastricht coffee shop had challenged the 2005 law, arguing that the policy breached EU laws on free movement of goods and services.

However, Thursday's ruling said the restrictions still complied with EU law.

"That restriction is justified by the objective of combating drug tourism and the accompanying public nuisance," the court said.

It added that the governments of Belgium, Germany and France had linked drug tourism to public order problems in their own countries.

Cannabis use in the Netherlands is tolerated in small amounts, with possession and purchases limited to 5g (0.2oz) per adult, regardless of the consumer's nationality.

However, the Netherlands' centre-right coalition government plans to turn coffee shops into private members' clubs amid concerns about the threat drug tourism poses to the Dutch way of life.

The BBC's Geraldine Coughlan in The Hague says the ruling could spell the end of the country's 30-year-old soft drugs tourism trade.

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12006356
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Irie !
 
Mr.Jones

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Foreigners banned from Netherland Coffeeshops in 2011

Foreigners banned from Netherland Coffeeshops in 2011

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch town was right in refusing to let foreigners buy cannabis, Europe's highest court said in a ruling Thursday that will help the national government's plans to curb sales of the drug to tourists.

The European Court of Justice ruled that the mayor of Maastricht -- a southern town near the German and Belgian borders and not far from France -- was right to close down a coffee shop that had been selling cannabis to non-residents.

"A prohibition on admitting non-residents to coffee shops ... constitutes a measure capable of substantially limiting drug tourism and, consequently, of reducing the problems it causes," the Luxembourg-based court said in its judgement.

The owner of the coffee shop "Easy Going" had asked for a decision taken by the town's mayor in 2005 to stop foreigners buying drugs in the town's cafes to be overturned.

The Dutch government said last month it planned to introduce a similar system nationwide, but a Dutch court still needs to give a final ruling on the Maastricht case next year.

However, Maastricht councillor Manon Fokke said the town was now opposed to a ban on tourists buying cannabis, arguing it would lead to an increase in the illegal trade.
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http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE6BF4FV20101216

Looks like the finally do it - bann tourists from Coffeeshops in Netherlands.
They've tried it for some time but now they have the support of whole Europe.

What a sad world we live in!

Well i had some very fun times there and my memory will live on! :wave:

(post the same thread in the News section but kinda messed that one up :D)
 
Lazyman

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So who is planning on visiting a Dutch coffeeshop next year?

So who is planning on visiting a Dutch coffeeshop next year?

I want to go check the place out. You know, as a foreign tourist? LOL

Nevermind. My real question is, now where will the HT Cup be?

You know, now that they are voting to bar tourists from coffeeshops next year.

Can't even fathom why another thread on this got deleted a second ago, but let's start that countdown anyway....
 
El Toker

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I've been to Amsterdam a few times. I was planning on going back but like 90% of Amsterdam's tourists the only thing that brought me there again and again was the coffee shops. Take them away and Amsterdam suddenly drops off a lot of people's "to do" lists. Lets face it, you wouldn't go for the food or the weather.

If they do close the coffee shops down the whole city is going to suffer a massive loss of income from tourism. It would be an insane thing to do.
 
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elmanito

This is the end and even for me as Dutchman.This means when it is finally true that citizens from other towns can't visit coffeeshops in the big cities.I have to buy my stuff on the streets.:moon:

Namaste :plant grow::canabis:
 
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The Dutch arrangement has still allowed selective enforcement and an underground untaxed or regulated economy. It also keeps the act of smoking and selling like something that is "dirty", and only tolerated. If anything it reinforces all of the standard stigmas.
Keeps things gray. Like Cali today, everybody gets a piece that way.

Can tourists still visit the red light district? I guess that doesn't bother the neighbors because the product stays put. Hypocrites.

If this is a nationwide ban on tourists in coffee shops, it has to be from other Govt pressure mixed with a bit of the craziness from Conservatives that managed to get elected.


Does this mean the end of the cup celebrations?
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Is it true? Can't i as a turist buy weed in dutch coffee shops?

Is it true? Can't i as a turist buy weed in dutch coffee shops?

Help me out, going to amsterdam the 6 jan.
 
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Dont care wat any one says you dont actually score in coffee shops,ask in one and td

Dont care wat any one says you dont actually score in coffee shops,ask in one and td

deidree barlow said:
You can buy what you like in dam my friend and you can even smoke it on streets buy anything in dam trust me
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Dont care wat any one says you dont bye in coffee shops as alchohol is sold and the two cannot be sold in one shop ask in them then they send you next door,where you are given a menu of dope looks a bit dodgy but its sweet u score then smoke it in coffee shop with beer
 
mriko

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This is the end and even for me as Dutchman.This means when it is finally true that citizens from other towns can't visit coffeeshops in the big cities.I have to buy my stuff on the streets.
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Yep, and so will the tourists. Putting the CSs off-limits to non-residents is not gonna make disappear all the existing connections, network & dealers. People will still come (probably less though) but will buy direct from criminal networks. If anything, it's going to make the things far worse, except for criminal organisations for whom it is a huge gift. There gonna be more dealers roaming the streets, waiting for customers at train stations, airport & on highways, it's gonna be soooo fun...
Fake CS passports will probably show up too...

Irie !
 
buddah

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its just crazy!!!!!

Pro: ?????? anyone???

Contra:
less taxes income !!!
less tourist income!!!!
way more crime!!!
way more violence!!
NO PROBER GANJA....BRIX BRIX BRIX

its just crazy!!!!!
 
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