The Netherlands: Maastricht cannabis coffeeshops contradiction.

Dutch smokers only or a coffeeshop boulevard near Germany?


Donner: Experiment to prohibit drugstourism.

Dutch Justice Minister Donner wants to start an experiment to prohibit the sales of softdrugs (cannabis) to members from other EU states.
He wants to run the experiment in Maatricht.
Donner has previously been looking into possibilities to decrease the drugs tourism in the municipalities in the border areas with Belgium and Germany. He plans to introduce a system with passes and ID cards to ban sales of cannabis to citizens of other EU states.
Donner has agreed on discouraging drugs tourism with other EU Ministers.

Translation: Sinsemilla Guerrilla

This looks like discrimination, because it excludes non Dutch EU citizens, not the Dutch, American, Egyptian, Mexican etc. citizens of the world!
Donner wants things, but does not get things done, according to the Maastricht Mayor, whom I just watched on a Dutch news program, Editie NL.

Mayor Leers of Maastricht admits he talked with Donner about the system with the passes and exclusion of citizens of the 24 other EU states, and said he was willing to cooperate with Donner, if Donner would pay for the costs involved in executing the plan
So far, said Mayor Leers, Donner did not do nor pay anything, so I will solve the problem myself now, for I have a City that is crowded by 1.5 million coffeeshop tourists per year.
That is why I will now move all 16 coffeeshops from the City Centre to an area closer to the (German) border, to a so-called coffeeshop boulevard. All coffeeshops will have to comply, those who will not will loose their license to sell cannabis. This way, the City will be freed from all traffic involved in drugs tourism.
The spokesman for the Maastricht coffeeshop Union does not like the plan, and suggests a number of coffeeshops to be moved to the edge of town, while the other part would reamin in the City. Mayor Leers said that would mean even more work for the police, for there would be two hotspots to cover, instead of one now.

As always, contradiction rules, but I think Mayor Leers will win, the two coffeeshop drive in Border Cannabis Outlet in Venlo must be in the back of his mind. This place opened discretely, but it is open, two coffeeshops on two floors of a former trucker restaurant, just across the border from Germany.

I’ll keep you posted,

Sinsemilla Guerrilla

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