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dconstrukt wrote:35% tax?

wtf? that is nuts.

The EU low tax economies, like Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Spain are far more in the shit; low growth falling wages and increasingly threadbare welfare states. Not a model many Dutch want to follow.

Marco wrote: the return of road pricing - abandoned as unworkable by the previous government.

So they are happy to abandon unworkable policies. Promising.

Lovely scene just before the linked clip in which Jon Stewart shows the audience what 25 grams looks like, but only has about three left after his team have nicked it all.

I wonder how many residents who don't go into coffeeshops might apply for a Wietpas and lend it out to tourists for a few Euros.

Numerous articles blame the Brits for this pass because of the 'nuisance' your roguish behavior included. I wasn't aware of that. As a Brit I met few fellow countrymen in the Southern border towns where nuisance drug tourists have caused the most controversy. Most head for Amsterdam and as far I've...

Part of the reason for this, say the experts, is that people smoking cannabis take deeper puffs and hold them for longer than when smoking tobacco cigarettes.

Well you probably do if you at a party in a swinging 60s comedy movie with Peter Sellars.

As possession of 3g and owning one female plant is legal in Belgium, Dutch style coffeshops are not. However a non-profit making club, which grows a plant on behalf of the member, has won two court cases and currently able to continue in a legal grey area- http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx...

Apologies if this has already been mentioned but isn't this whole Weed Pass thing nothing short of discrimination? I mean a residents parking permit maybe understandable but if it wasn't for the Taboo nature of the subject surely the EU courts would have a field day with this. Is it really practica...

I've read a fair few comments people have left with this defeatist attitude on the whole thing which is dissapointing cos the end-result is far from being called yet. What make you say that, I understood the Wietpas is a done deal? But having said that the smoking ban was never fully enforced in Ho...

Interesting list of British MPs that have questioned or opposed the ludicrous War on Drugs, including David Cameron and Nick Clegg- http://www.tdpf.org.uk/MediaNews_Reform-supporters_Politics.htm However once in government the favourite cliche is that drug legalisation would 'send out the wrong mess...

Article on how the Socialist Party is picking up support in the election and could hold the balance of power instead of Wilders- http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/15/anti-euro-sentiment-rise-dutch-socialist-party No idea what their Wietpas views are but they are extremely unlikely to ...

I don't know if its any good but there was a movie with Wood Harris who plays Avon Barksdale in the Wire

If creeping liberalisation came it would be spearheaded through flexible court judgements on medical use.

Great pics, thanks for the reportage.

Anyone in Holland know what opposition parties' policies are on the the Wietpas?

I understand D66 and the Greens have publically opposed it and I understand are part of teh caretaker governemnt coalition in order to pass the budget.

Has the Labour Party expressed an opinion on the issue?