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Border cannabis cafe closure boosts BredaFriday 29 January 2010 Cannabis-selling cafes in Breda are reporting a 31% increase in sales since the closure of similar cafes in the border towns of Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom, news agency ANP reports, quoting city council figures. Nevertheless, the nuisance caused by the cafes, known as coffee shops, has not increased as feared, the council said. Six out of 10 new visitors come from the Netherlands, the rest from Belgium, the figures show. Mayor Peter van der Velden said Breda will monitor developments until September, a year after the Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom cafes were shut down. 'We are on top of things and will take action if necessary,' he was quoted as saying. The border town cafes were closed last year on the order of their councils because of the problems caused by drugs tourists. Each town had four coffee shops, serving some 25,000 drugs tourists a week. © DutchNews.nl
The people want pot, not pissy heineken. I guess this is what they call democracy under the increasingly totalitarian EU By NeitNormal | January 29, 2010 5:32 PM The Netherlands will always supply cannabis semi-legal, all other drugs under the table, money talks, BS walks. Good thinking, until all drugs are legalized the gangsters keep their profits growing and the government looses money. Police chasing gangsters, bringing them for judges and lawyers, paying prisons and guards and the rest will continue wasting tons of money that should be kept when all drugs were legalized and controlled by the medical establishment and the tax man. By Captain Zen | January 29, 2010 10:14 PM Sooner or later - most probably later in NL's the Goverment will have to wake up & close them all down ! It's just not the same stuff it was back in the good old days !!. And it's not helping the youth of today - to much stigma for the older generation - who can't brake the habit & not helping this country's reputation anymore,with or without the Tourist's. By Wiemer | January 31, 2010 7:36 AM The government says: If it's something in popular demand, tax it, if you can't tax it, make it illegal! That's why a hard drug like alcohol is allowed & advertised. No one ever died from an overdose of pot, but alcohol? In NL, it's allowed, but not if one tries to make big money. And so the long debate continues... It's just a question of time until the EU DICTATES it's selfish policy on pot, as with the smoking ban. By stevie | February 1, 2010 11:36 AM
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Wow....I would never have guessed that this would happen. Possibly something to do with a thing called "supply and demand?"
By Bobke | January 29, 2010 2:52 PM