Breaking News: Dutch Cabinet plans strict coffeeshop policy!

[Gastro]

Very Simple! Plans from our Minister of Security (how much of WW2 term do you want to have?) have been leaked showing that they want to INTRODUCE the weedpass in the Southern Part of Holland as soon as 1st of January 2012. From 2013 all other coffeeshops in the rest of Holland need to have a weedpass. And from 2014 very coffeeshops within the arbitrary region of 350m from school need to moved or closed down (read closed down).
You can only become a member of a coffeeshop in the council that you live in. Making it impossible for a majority of all Dutch citizens to ever set foot in a coffeeshop again.
So far the news from the Dutch extremist conservative cabinet!

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[gopot]

sucks if this happens. i was in a-dam years ago and remember saying to myself"enjoy it while it last" its the only thing i remember but id like to return one day and see it hasnt changed too much

 

[Useful Idiot]

Well it's in effect. Tourists ARE being banned from coffe shops.

Well it's in effect. Tourists ARE being banned from coffe shops.

Last call: If you're not Dutch, you only have about six weeks to legally get high in some parts of the Netherlands.
As of January 1, 2012, a new policy will go into effect, banning all foreigners from marijuana-selling "coffee shops" in three of the country's southern provinces, USA Today reports.
In 2013, the ban will expand to the remaining nine provinces, which, of course, includes Amsterdam, a city popular with foreigners because of its lax drug policies.
Licensed coffee shops will become "member-only" establishments, and only citizens of the Netherlands who are over 18 will be allowed to join, according to an article from AFP-Relaxnews in the New York Daily News. The new policy was put into place in an effort to cut down on traffic congestion and disorder at night from "drug tourists."
"The visitors put a lot of pressure on the city when they come here and make it very busy on our narrow streets," Marc Josemans, the president of the Society of United Coffeeshops told CNN last month. "So the city said that something had to be done about the traffic and nuisance."
According to CNN, Josemans owns a coffee shop in Maastricht, a city on the Belgian border that last month banned all foreigners except for Germans and Belgians from entering the city's 13 coffee shops.
But officials in Amsterdam are worried about the effect that this will have on tourism. 23 percent of visitors to Amsterdam visit coffee shops while they're in the city, CNN reported in June, citing a figure from the Amsterdam Tourism & Convention Board.
And some argue that this policy will encourage the illegal sale of drugs.
"If tourists are denied access to coffeeshops, illegal sales and drug dealing on the streets of Amsterdam will increase," said a statement from I Amsterdam, a consortium that includes the city and the Amsterdam Tourism and Convention Board (ATCB). "The City of Amsterdam does not want to facilitate soft drug use by tourists, but to help those who wish to use drugs to do so as responsibly as possible."
According to DutchNews.NL, the number of visitors to coffee shops in Maastricht was down 16% after the ban took effect last month. The Telegraph reports that this could account for an annual loss of $41 million, the equivalent of 345 full-time jobs.

 

[spliffdiddy]

Your exactly right. Their tourists industry would be absolutely destroyed. They would just be shooting themselves in the foot. Then again right wing politicians are very good at that.

 

[Old time lurker]

Just in from NORML:

http://blog.norml.org/2011/11/23/high-times-cannabis-cup-raided-in-amsterdam/

 

[natty1]

You're right, enjoy it while it lasts...

 

[Stray]

next in line for a euro bailout..........HOLLAND!! only so much Rembrandt,Van Gogh and Fabritius one can stomach,suppose there's the Edam but that, along with the weed, is far too mild for my taste.

 

[Gastro]

Try some 4 year aged Gouda

 

[Gastro]

Operation Green Gold!
Space technology is entering the war on drugs. Today was announced that the European Space Agency is joining the war in spring 2012 with an experimental satellite. The satellites are going to utilize new techniques to detect outdoor grown marijuana in the Northern part of the Limburg province. The techniques are mostly based on the reflective wave lengths of the plant and are going to be used to search marijuana grown in cornfields...

http://translate.google.com/transla...02/111129763/1056#Wietsatelliet_boven_Limburg

 

[Harry Gypsna]

Operation Green Gold!
Space technology is entering the war on drugs. Today was announced that the European Space Agency is joining the war in spring 2012 with an experimental satellite. The satellites are going to utilize new techniques to detect outdoor grown marijuana in the Northern part of the Limburg province. The techniques are mostly based on the reflective wave lengths of the plant and are going to be used to search marijuana grown in cornfields...

http://translate.google.com/transla...02/111129763/1056#Wietsatelliet_boven_Limburg

Just think what these dickless fucksticks would be able to do for the world, if all the energy and cash they used to persecute us, was put into positive projects.
The worldwide clampdown is on--the 1960s saw freedom emerging as people said"Fuck you" to the PTB. Now the pendulum is swinging back-Hard.
Not a pretty future

 

[Gastro]

The most amazing thing is that in times of crisis and budget cuts to healthcare, education, social security culture and the handicapped they apparently have millions to waste on a war on drugs... If it wasn't this sad it could be hilarious...

 

[blueberrydrumz]

Don't worry guys California is a much shorter flight!

hahaa... i wish

 

[slickrymer]

Thatsa big pity i was planning on migrating to amsterdam next year. But wont that mean there will be a resurgence of the street dealer

 

[Gastro]

Hemp Fragrance card for all Dutch

So the government of "spy and tell" wants everybody in the country to recognize the smell of cannabis and hemp. The government reasons that when everybody knows what smell it is, the public will be able to detect grows earlier, faster and more often.


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[growbie1]

The stuffs been around for years, but the shit doesn't smell like weed. Like car-refresher doesn't actually smells like pine, etc.

 

[Rufid]

What the hell is with the all out attack on our plant? Oh yeah, big pharma wants to be the kid with all the goodies.

Insane times.

 

[Gastro]

It's been a while, and the discussion is heating up, in the next couple of months there are going to be multiple debates about the current and future drugpolicy in The Netherlands. This all because of the official introduction of the weedpass in the three Southern provinces of The Netherlands.

The VVD one of the cabinet parties has suggested this week to ban hash all together from coffeeshops. The argument used hash always needs an international criminal network to be imported into the country and thereby we are funding the criminals and terrorists networks involved in hash production.

The councils have announced that they are scared of the weedpass all it is suppossed to entail. Since the weedpass can't be introduced under national law, every council has to decide whether they want to introduce it or not. Most probably they will be pressured by the Ministers to do so.
The ironic thing is that this week financial figures were published stating that The Netherlands has to cut atleast another 4 billion euro this year and another 16 by 2015. All these budgetcuts leave the local councils with a smaller policeforce and even less resources to their securitywork. Leaving most councils in severe doubt what use a weedpass is when the council can neither enforce or controll all the effects that come with the introduction of such a pass.

Right now the cabinet has steered itsself into a minefield trying to implement their neo conservative Christian dogmas. Its going to be a very interesting couple of months.

 

[TanzanianMagic]

The VVD one of the cabinet parties has suggested this week to ban hash all together from coffeeshops. The argument used hash always needs an international criminal network to be imported into the country and thereby we are funding the criminals and terrorists networks involved in hash production

But of course by making something illegal they are doing exactly that.

And are putting hash in the same space as heroin.

Total grandstanding retards, also known as rightwing politicians.

 

[bigdrov1x]

Dont get neo-con big government ****s confused with the true right wingers. A true right winger would have all substances legal. We are now called libertarians, but we are the only true right wingers. Everybody wants things both ways nowadays. If you are conservative, you have to be for all liberties, not cherry picking what you like or dont like.

 

[elmanito]

The VVD one of the cabinet parties has suggested this week to ban hash all together from coffeeshops.

But not from my fingers

So they can kiss my

Namaste