World Dutch towns 'swamped by drug tourists'

[The Helper]

TWO Dutch towns are planning to close their cannabis smoking coffee shops after admitting that an influx of up to 25,000 French and Belgian "drug tourists" each week had become too much.

Local authorities in southwestern Roosendaal and Bergen-op-Doom announced they could no longer cope with the "drug tourists" whose presence they blamed for traffic congestion, crime and unlicenced dealing.

"Soft drug tourism is the motor of criminality linked to (harder) drugs," they said in a joint statement. "It has an overwhelming negative effect on public order."

All eight coffee shops in the two towns will shut, with closures beginning in February 2009.

Dutch towns close cannabis coffee shops to ward off 'drug tourists'

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[FireCat]

that's good! :thup:

 

[EatShrooms]

that's good! :thup:

Are you insane? No it's not.

 

[FireCat]

Are you insane? No it's not.

Oh EatShrooms, give a smile be happy ! it's still greatest idea they gave....!!! :thup:

 

[Snowbizzle]

I blame the French tourists, specifically. The Belgians have never done anything except make waffles.

But really, that sucks. They took a good thing, squandered it and lost it. What's wrong with a few cannabis coffee shops and the occasional bakery? When they take these for granted and start dealing (harder) drugs illegally, it's just plain greedy. Go do that in your own country, you smelly Frenchmen.

 

[Asehujiko]

Roosendaal and Bergen-op-Doom

I'm afraid i must correct you here, the town is named Bergen op Zoom