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| Subject: Dutch statist idiots: Tourist ban on cannabis 'coffee shops' to start by May Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:12 am | |
| New legislation to ban non-Dutch residents from cannabis-selling coffee shops in southern Netherlands should be enforced no later than May 1 next year, the Dutch justice ministry said yesterday.
"The law will be amended on January 1, but there will be a kind of grace period until May 1," ministry spokeswoman Charlotte Menten said.
The centre-right government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte has since September 2010 been weighing a "cannabis card", reserved for residents only and obligatory when visiting one of the country's 670 licensed coffee shops.
The move, which coffee shop owners say would harm an industry that has been a drawcard for travellers for years, was taken to protect locals against the nuisance of drug tourism and criminality, authorities said.
Menten said the extended grace period was to give coffee shops in the southern Zeeland, Limburg and Brabant North provinces, which borders Belgium and Germany, time to set up a "new administrative system."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/tourist-ban-on-cannabis-coffee-shops-to-start-by-may-20111216-1oxks.html#ixzz1gguh2KNh
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