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http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/01/world/europe/netherlands-cannabis-tourists/index.html?hpt=hp_t2(CNN) -- Coffee shops in the Dutch city of Maastricht have banned foreign tourists, except those from Germany and Belgium, from entering their premises from Saturday, according to the local association of coffee shops.Coffee shops in the Netherlands are places where customers can legally buy and consume cannabis."We have put in place a 'neighbouring country' criteria," Marc Josemans, president of the Society of United Coffeeshops and owner of the Easy Going coffee shop, told CNN."This is a form of self-regulation. It is not a law, there will be no judge, this was just the only choice we had."Legalize pot, decrease crime? The move comes after Maastricht's city council decided that something had to be done about the 2.2 million visitors that come to the city every year, according to Josemans."The visitors put a lot of pressure on the city when they come here and make it very busy on our narrow streets. So the city said that something had to be done about the traffic and nuisance," he said."But the biggest nuisance isn't the number of coffee shops or the clients, but the illegal drug runners that can be quite aggressive and start fights and rob the tourists."All visitors to Maastricht's coffee shops -- some 6,000 a day, almost three-quarters of whom are foreign, according to Josemans -- already have to show their passports and their information is then kept for 48 hours.Now only those with a Dutch, German or Belgian passport will be allowed in.
It's not about the freakin' coffee, it's about the freakin' weed. They don't feel like sharing no more to tourists. But I never smoke, so what's so good about this crap? Besides it being an important factor to their economic system that is. Too bad for weed addicts.
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AFUUUUUUUUYA AFA GAWAUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But no seriously that's messed up.
:D Yeay! As a Belguim man I am still allowed.... not that I mind. For real, I don't do drugs... anyways... why only the French?
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correction, you dont abuse drugs cause everyone do drugs.. the only possible way when you never did any drugs is when you are immune to sickness.
that Panadol tablet that you take when you get a headache or fever?
that is you doing drugs. that bunch of pill or syrup that you get from a doctor visit? those are drugs.
I have done tons of drugs and the majority of them dont work on me. ibruprofen and amoxicillin are the only ones that do. I was put on steroids and absolutely fuck all happened until I was at double the maximum dose for adults (I was a kid at the time). Then I was taken off of them because I should never have been prescribed that dosage in the first place.
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10tarik10 · #3Not really my concerns.
[color=navy]Well generally speaking it is not anyones concern until it gets into the wrong hands. Most of the time drugs are shrugged off as just some junkie decides to get wasted and it never occurs to others how sensitive our bodies are to drugs, when someone gets caught up in the mess then it really gets ugly.
Jonez001 · #4:D Yeay! As a Belguim man I am still allowed.... not that I mind. For real, I don't do drugs... anyways... why only the French?
I don't really know, but I think it's their accent that threw them away.
calvin_0 · #5correction, you dont abuse drugs cause everyone do drugs.. the only possible way when you never did any drugs is when you are immune to sickness.that Panadol tablet that you take when you get a headache or fever?that is you doing drugs. that bunch of pill or syrup that you get from a doctor visit? those are drugs.
[color=navy]Some people aren't just immune to illnesses though, they are allergic to some other forms of chemicals or ingredient or even certain things like animal fur. Then doctors have no direct diagnosis to actually say what the heck is wrong with you and he/she ends up giving you the wrong perscription.
Drugs are not even necessary if the individual is healthy.
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That's exactly the problem I have with doctors, because
I would like to trust them, but they really have nothing better to say, but take this drug because I have all the right stuff according to this sheet of paper right here.
I could understand if the illnesses or ailments were the common cold, influenza, diabetes, or blood pressure, but the "medicines" do not need to be used in cases such as that. The human body cannot be cured of any illnesses if there was nothing there to begin with. Because if we all have a healthy mind, we will have a healthy body. :)
