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Netherlands: Smoking Ban Does Not Apply to Cannabis

NIS News

Thursday 27 Mar 2008

THE HAGUE, 27/03/08 - The upcoming smoking ban in Dutch bars and
restaurants does not apply to joints made solely of cannabis. Health
Minister Ab Klink wrote this in a letter to the Lower House.

From 1 July 2008, smoking in restaurants, hotels and bars will only be
allowed in closed-off areas where no service will be provided. Coffee
shops - the tolerated Dutch cannabis bars - are also included in the ban.

However, the Tobacco Act only applies to the smoking of products
consisting wholly or partially of tobacco. Cannabis users who smoke
their joints without adding tobacco will therefore not be affected by
the ban that comes into force on 1 July.

Klink does not expect that cannabis users will switch en masse to 'pure'
joints. He will arrange a study, though, of whether the smoking habits
of coffee shop visitors change after the ban.

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