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Amsterdam 'forced' to shut cannabis cafesFriday 21 November 2008 Amsterdam is being forced to close 43 of its 228 cannabis-selling cafes to meet national regulations, report various newspapers on Friday. The cafes, known as coffee shops, have to be closed down by the end of 2011 because they are less than 250 meters from a secondary school. Regulation At present the authorities turn an official blind eye to the sale and consumption of cannabis but ban the large-scale cultivation of marijuana plants and the wholesale trade. © DutchNews.nl Get the DutchNews.nl newsletter in your mailbox: Click here to subscribe
Why not move the Barlaeus? By hanneke | November 21, 2008 11:29 AM The statement by Mr Cohen, that a total ban on coffee-shops will not reduce the (ab)use of drugs goes right against the proven market principle, that the easier goods are available the more they sell. One wonders why a mayor of such a major town talks such rubbish. By Frans van Pallander | November 22, 2008 8:57 AM Are they also planning on closing down shops within 250 meters of schools which sell alcohol? By Pip | November 22, 2008 1:18 PM I like Mayor Cohen for standing-up and stating the obvious. How many of these tourists are seriously ill patients, from countries with policies that ban both the recreational and medical use of cannabis? Recently I was in a country along the border with Holland, where they have mayors who like to regularly complain about Dutch soft drug policy (tolerance of cannabis and Coffeeshops to be precise), and where many of the patients in this country tell me that their Drs advise them to, "pop across the border to Holland and use the coffeeshops". It's not just in Holland that patients get told to use the coffeeshops as their alternative 'Apotheeks.' By Gerard | November 22, 2008 7:08 PM Place your comments: |
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teens can go in the bar and get stupidly drunk at 16, they are not allowed in the coffeeshops til they are 18. maybe they should close all the bars within 250 meters of schools instead
By mr.haze | November 21, 2008 11:14 AM