So the Weed pass thing? and your thoughts?

[Smith2]

The headline says that it's a success. The first sentence says complaints about drug nuisance have quadrupled, and according to the second, arrests have risen by over 2000%.

I don't know what they're on, but it must mess with your mind a lot more than weed does.

[Quazer]

Brain wash media that is! Yeah tell everybody the grass is so green and then feel sorry that it's indeed red. They want to sell the pass to us via the media and it worked with some people already. This doesn't look good.

[seanlyall]

Hey guys, I have read quite a bit on this now and im quite scared. I planned on moving to Amsterdam and yes it is mainly for weed reasons. With the ban coming into force in January do you think I should wait with the move and see how things pan out or do you think that I should go and chance the ban hoping that I can still pick up?

My main fear(besides the weed ) is that with the ban coming into effect I will find it a lot harder to get work due to bar, restaurants etc closing.

Someone please tell me to get a grip and not worry about all this....

[Bifton]

Hey guys, I have read quite a bit on this now and im quite scared. I planned on moving to Amsterdam and yes it is mainly for weed reasons. With the ban coming into force in January do you think I should wait with the move and see how things pan out or do you think that I should go and chance the ban hoping that I can still pick up?

My main fear(besides the weed ) is that with the ban coming into effect I will find it a lot harder to get work due to bar, restaurants etc closing.

Someone please tell me to get a grip and not worry about all this....

As far as I understand it, as long as you have a Dutch residence permit you will not have a problem with access to a coffeeshop. So 'get a grip and not worry about all this'

[treetop]

Hey guys, I have read quite a bit on this now and im quite scared. I planned on moving to Amsterdam and yes it is mainly for weed reasons. With the ban coming into force in January do you think I should wait with the move and see how things pan out or do you think that I should go and chance the ban hoping that I can still pick up?

My main fear(besides the weed ) is that with the ban coming into effect I will find it a lot harder to get work due to bar, restaurants etc closing.

Someone please tell me to get a grip and not worry about all this....

Get a grip

I'd start learning Spanish or whatever they speak up in Basque country if I were you.

[Marco]

Hey guys, I have read quite a bit on this now and im quite scared. I planned on moving to Amsterdam and yes it is mainly for weed reasons. With the ban coming into force in January do you think I should wait with the move and see how things pan out or do you think that I should go and chance the ban hoping that I can still pick up?

My main fear(besides the weed ) is that with the ban coming into effect I will find it a lot harder to get work due to bar, restaurants etc closing.

Someone please tell me to get a grip and not worry about all this....

I was gonna tease you about moving only for weed reasons, but I like your honesty

Listen, weed is not going anywhere, especially if you live here. Prices may even go down.

[Bifton]

Hey guys, I have read quite a bit on this now and im quite scared. I planned on moving to Amsterdam and yes it is mainly for weed reasons. With the ban coming into force in January do you think I should wait with the move and see how things pan out or do you think that I should go and chance the ban hoping that I can still pick up?

My main fear(besides the weed ) is that with the ban coming into effect I will find it a lot harder to get work due to bar, restaurants etc closing.

Someone please tell me to get a grip and not worry about all this....

I was gonna tease you about moving only for weed reasons, but I like your honesty

Listen, weed is not going anywhere, especially if you live here. Prices may even go down.

Prices going down? Now that is something I would like to see lol

[DC]

The prices will not go down in the shops, but if you live here you rarely buy your weed from the shops anyway, hence cheaper. If you're not a skilled professional a decent paying job will be a lot harder to come by than cheap weed, that I guarantee. As treetop said, learn Spanish, though the chances of ya finding a decent paid unskilled job there are worse than here.

[Bifton]

The prices will not go down in the shops, but if you live here you rarely buy your weed from the shops anyway, hence cheaper. If you're not a skilled professional a decent paying job will be a lot harder to come by than cheap weed, that I guarantee. As treetop said, learn Spanish, though the chances of ya finding a decent paid unskilled job there are worse than here.

Damn lol

The advice I hear most often when talking about wanting to live in Amsterdam is that you really really have to want it to work. I would try finding work first before packing.

[schererbuzz]

Why some much emphasis on Spanish? Same reason as they recommend it in the US I suppose?

[treetop]

http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/12/sp ... in_201.php

[Pierre von Mondragon]

I'd start learning Spanish or whatever they speak up in Basque country if I were you.

Euskadi, which is Basque for Basque, nice place, but they are dead set on no-one getting good jobs unless they speak the local, difficult, unrelated to anything in the nearest 4000 mile vicinity, language. They might let you sell some pinxos.

[sea72]

http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/12/sp ... in_201.php

Good! can be at the Dutch Masters time to pass the Spanish experience:))) To GOOD quality )

[nuttygooner]

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 practical in the long term to essentially ban foreigners or non residents from purchasing something that residents can? I guess I never really though I'd see the day when people were generally worried about not being able to go to a coffeeshop in Dam but it seems to have happened. I get they are trying to stop smuggling but they seem to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. Why not target the borders and smuggling rather than introducing a weed pass. Surely the money they lose in tourism and tax etc would go someway to policing the borders better. Rant over for now

[youngian]

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 practical in the long term to essentially ban foreigners or non residents from purchasing something that residents can? I guess I never really though I'd see the day when people were generally worried about not being able to go to a coffeeshop in Dam but it seems to have happened. I get they are trying to stop smuggling but they seem to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. Why not target the borders and smuggling rather than introducing a weed pass. Surely the money they lose in tourism and tax etc would go someway to policing the borders better. Rant over for now

The ECJ has already ruled and because cannabis is not a legally recognised product under EU law this was an internal issue for the Dutch. As Holland and its neighbours are in the Schnegen area, there is a tendancy to move towards other methods in curbing drug smuggling other than reinstalling border checks. Although the unintended consequence of the weed pass could be less people moving larger quantities across borders.