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| Subject: Rights violating Dutch laws set to weed out stoned tourists Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:33 am | |
| This country of canals and tulips is also famous for "coffee shops" where joints and cappuccinos share the menu. Now, the Netherlands' famed tolerance for drugs could be going up in smoke.
A judge on Friday upheld a government plan to ban foreign tourists from buying marijuana by introducing a "weed pass" available only to Dutch citizens and permanent residents.
The new regulation reins in one of the country's most cherished symbols of tolerance - its laissez-faire attitude toward soft drugs - and reflects the drift away from a long-held view of the Netherlands as a free-wheeling utopia.
For many tourists visiting Amsterdam the image endures, and smoking a joint in a canal-side coffee shop ranks high on their to-do lists, along with visiting cultural highlights such as the Van Gogh Museum and Anne Frank House.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/dutch-laws-set-to-weed-out-stoned-tourists-20120428-1xr4m.html#ixzz1tVj3Q3gE
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