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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: dance4life on December 17, 2011, 06:30 am

Title: What is going on with the Dutch culture right now?
Post by: dance4life on December 17, 2011, 06:30 am
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Who voted in the Christian coalition?  I mean are you guys only going to have 'clubs' now like the USA?  These clubs are limited to 2,000 people?  Sounds like you better get to NL before 2013.  The party is apparently ending.

I expected better from my cousins overseas.
Title: Re: What is going on with the Dutch culture right now?
Post by: E=daveC² on December 17, 2011, 03:14 pm
How will they enforce this? Will the police go into coffee shops and randomly card people to see if they are members? How easy is it to distinguish foreigners of European descent from the native Dutch just by looking at them? How are the gangs making money if the weed is legal?

A couple of the provisions I agree with like not selling pot to minors or next to a school. Eventually they'll be coming to California for the Cannabis Cup.
Title: Re: What is going on with the Dutch culture right now?
Post by: eddie912115 on December 17, 2011, 03:51 pm
How will they enforce this? Will the police go into coffee shops and randomly card people to see if they are members? How easy is it to distinguish foreigners of European descent from the native Dutch just by looking at them? How are the gangs making money if the weed is legal?

The idea is that everyone who wants to buy cannabis needs to have a permit ('wietpas'), which is only issued to dutch citizens aged 18 and above.
I do think it will be enforced, at least in the beginning. I doubt the customers will be prosecuted (maybe their purchase will be confiscated), but I think the coffeeshop owner will be fined.

The law is not effective yet, it will probably be in 2012 (but has already been postponed once).

In (at most) two years there will be new elections. Let's hope some more sane parties will win them.
Title: Re: What is going on with the Dutch culture right now?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on December 21, 2011, 03:04 am
....not everyone sits and smokes in a coffee-shop in nl, the workaround is to simply ask for a 'take-away', or your dutch mate buys it for you....seems like a stupid clamp
down that won't achieve much certainly won't earn them any tax as you'd probably have to buy the rest from dealers which is the illegal side of things...stupid laws..

tut tut tut
 >:(
Title: Re: What is going on with the Dutch culture right now?
Post by: Leech on December 23, 2011, 01:03 am
Just went there recently, you can get what you want with the right connections there.

By the way, the poppies available are really Giganteum.  ;)
Title: Re: What is going on with the Dutch culture right now?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on December 23, 2011, 02:33 am
Just went there recently, you can get what you want with the right connections there.
  ;)

-  :D.....were also a lot of kids running about ripping people off too, but sure... gotta know someone who knows where to get the good stuff...i found very good quality "stuff"
   at a good price, but then not everyone was on massive salaries...
...just a rethink, its going to put an end to the a/dam cruise or stag do's.. otherwise its going to require a lot of organising to cater for a group, some sort of private party etc....