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by donpacino
Sat 20th Nov 2010 08:05 pm
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: Up in smoke! Dutch to ban tourists from buying pot
Replies: 167
Views: 23442

http://www.at5.nl/artikelen/52496/amsterdam-botst-met-den-haag-over-coffeeshops TY. After reading some of the comments it is actually kinda sad. From what it looks to me(and it could be that I am being misled by Google Translate) some of the commenters seem to want Amsterdam to be Paris or Milan. B...
by donpacino
Sat 20th Nov 2010 06:52 pm
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: Up in smoke! Dutch to ban tourists from buying pot
Replies: 167
Views: 23442

http://www.at5.nl/artikelen/52496/amsterdam-botst-met-den-haag-over-coffeeshops TY. After reading some of the comments it is actually kinda sad. From what it looks to me(and it could be that I am being misled by Google Translate) some of the commenters seem to want Amsterdam to be Paris or Milan. B...
by donpacino
Fri 19th Nov 2010 05:49 pm
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: Up in smoke! Dutch to ban tourists from buying pot
Replies: 167
Views: 23442

Just in case anyone is interested, The sun on line has got wind of this story now, dont say anything new except apparently no annoucement is due until sometime in 2011, is the sun though so probably bullsh*t. Guardian on line has an interesting story, says the same but with few extra tid bits, one o...
by donpacino
Thu 18th Nov 2010 11:54 pm
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: Mixers
Replies: 41
Views: 5003

my joints are 70/30 weed/tobacco, i only use tobacco not cigarettes. I smoke 1 hand made cigarette a day, when i first get up in the morning, and about 8 joints a day.
by donpacino
Thu 18th Nov 2010 11:27 pm
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: Up in smoke! Dutch to ban tourists from buying pot
Replies: 167
Views: 23442

Just got an email from an old buddy who studies over in maastricht who i mailed over a month ago and he tells me that it is buisness as usual at the moment, he doesnt go in the CS anymore but apparently they are supposed to be introducing the member cards there in 2011, he dont know exactly when but...
by donpacino
Thu 18th Nov 2010 09:05 pm
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: Up in smoke! Dutch to ban tourists from buying pot
Replies: 167
Views: 23442

Do you know what is really annoying me, nearly every news article i read is claiming that there is allready a tourist ban in maastricht, now i might be wrong but i dont think so, but this is bullsh*t, i have read trip reports and coffee shops reviews about maastricht recently and there is definatel...
by donpacino
Thu 18th Nov 2010 07:18 pm
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: Up in smoke! Dutch to ban tourists from buying pot
Replies: 167
Views: 23442

Do you know what is really annoying me, nearly every news article i read is claiming that there is allready a tourist ban in maastricht, now i might be wrong but i dont think so, but this is bullsh*t, i have read trip reports and coffee shops reviews about maastricht recently and there is definately...
by donpacino
Thu 18th Nov 2010 03:55 pm
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: Up in smoke! Dutch to ban tourists from buying pot
Replies: 167
Views: 23442

i think changes are pretty sure. what do you think is a realistic time till a ban could be installed. i wanted to make a trip in summer, is worth to bokk or is it too risky? If you read everything then u will see that this idea is still up in the air, nothing is in black and white yet. Like i said ...
by donpacino
Thu 18th Nov 2010 07:29 am
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: Up in smoke! Dutch to ban tourists from buying pot
Replies: 167
Views: 23442

Re: Up in smoke! Dutch to ban tourists from buying pot

Up in smoke! Dutch to ban tourists from buying pot By Gilbert Kreijger 11-17-2010 The Netherlands' proposed 'coffee shop' restrictions part of crackdown on drug crime Amsterdam has plans to close some of the 223 'coffee shops' in the red-light district to tackle criminal activity in the area. The D...
by donpacino
Tue 16th Nov 2010 08:24 pm
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: Possibility to ban tourist
Replies: 22
Views: 4144

dope_demand wrote:So they only have a majority of 76 out of 150? Doesn't that mean that it would only take 2 of their politicians to abstain or 1 to vote against it and its screwed?
That is exactly what it means, for all there policy's not just CS'
by donpacino
Tue 16th Nov 2010 10:26 am
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: Possibility to ban tourist
Replies: 22
Views: 4144

apparently from what i have read on this forum the decision on wether to ban tourists or not lays with a department called "rad van state" and a decision is due early next year, i dont really not much about this department and what they do but i think once they decide they make a recomend...
by donpacino
Tue 16th Nov 2010 09:49 am
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: Possibility to ban tourist
Replies: 22
Views: 4144

apparently from what i have read on this forum the decision on wether to ban tourists or not lays with a department called "rad van state" and a decision is due early next year, i dont really not much about this department and what they do but i think once they decide they make a recomenda...
by donpacino
Wed 10th Nov 2010 11:37 pm
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: possible new dutch coaliton announce new plans
Replies: 276
Views: 31243

Re: Who knows

Well it's starting i guess. What with the smoking allowed in small cafes now, we are going to be hit even harder by the looks of things. Looks like they still going to target us well behaved tourists. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/11/let_cannabis_cafes_grow_their.php It doesnt actually...
by donpacino
Wed 10th Nov 2010 11:36 pm
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: possible new dutch coaliton announce new plans
Replies: 276
Views: 31243

Re: Who knows

Well it's starting i guess. What with the smoking allowed in small cafes now, we are going to be hit even harder by the looks of things. Looks like they still going to target us well behaved tourists. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/11/let_cannabis_cafes_grow_their.php It doesnt actually...
by donpacino
Tue 9th Nov 2010 09:47 am
Forum: Coffeeshops and Cannabis
Topic: possible new dutch coaliton announce new plans
Replies: 276
Views: 31243

NedFlanders wrote:this one let me hope!

http://www.coffeeshopnews.nl/
This is the best thing i have heard about this since all this flared up again.