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Netherlands (google translation): ''Amsterdam Premature on WeedPass"

Nos.nl

Thursday 01 Nov 2012

google translation:

Mayor Van der Laan of Amsterdam does not have permission from Minister Opstelten to allow tourists in coffee shops. A spokesman for the Ministry of Security and Justice said that Van der Laan premature with his conclusion that the coalition before space.

Van der Laan said this morning in the Times that the coffee shops in the capital remain open for tourists, now wietpas of the table. According to the coalition will only residents of the Netherlands access to coffee shops, but their monitoring done "phases" and "in consultation with the municipalities concerned."

The spokesman said that Opstelten customization will be applied, but still to be worked out how that turns out. The Ministry will consult with municipalities that need customization.
About Load and crime

Van der Laan has long been in conversation with Opstelten. In Amsterdam coffee shops are 220, one third of the total in the Netherlands. Annually half million tourists a coffeeshop.

Van der Laan said in the Times that he was the nuisance and criminality associated with coffee shops will sternly deal. Keeping tourists according leads him to more trouble and more street sales. "That half million tourists will not say it but no weed. Such swarms over the city looking for drugs. More robbery, quarrels about nepdrugs no control over the quality of drugs - all we had to misery comes back ".

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