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| Dutch cities are to decide themselves whether to bar foreign drug tourists from so-called coffee-shops, after the government scrapped its unpopular "weed pass" law.
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The move will allow Amsterdam to keep pulling in millions of foreign soft-drug users, while allowing border towns to clamp down on crime related to drug tourism.
"The best way of seeing which measures are effective is at local level," Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten said in a letter sent to parliament late Monday.
"We are abandoning the 'cannabis card'," he added. Advertisement
The Dutch government announced a year ago that it was introducing a law to ban foreigners from entering dope-dealing "coffee-shops", also forcing local smokers to show identification and register in a database.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/dutch-scrap-controversial-weed-pass-cannabis-laws-20121121-29p8j.html#ixzz2CtlWua9X
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