No Pot To Foreigners

From USA Today:
"Dutch court upholds ban on foreigners buying 'pot'"

A Dutch judge has upheld a government plan to prevent foreigners from buying marijuana in coffee shops in the Netherlands by turning them into private clubs for Dutch citizens only.

The decision to uphold the new "weed pass" plan represents the biggest rollback in years to the traditional Dutch tolerance of marijuana use, the Associated Press says. The plan, which would also limit memberships to 2,000 Dutch citizens per shop, will take effect May 1 in the southern provinces and spread to the rest of the country, including Amsterdam, next year. The conservative Dutch government sought to crack down on "drug tourists" who drive over the border from Belgium and Germany to buy a large amount of marijuana and take it home to resell. That argument, however, has drawn criticisim from coffee shop owners, particularly in Amsterdam, where public order and traffic issue is virtually non-existent.

^  This measure doesn't really faze me one way or the other as I don't go to Amsterdam or the Netherlands in general to get pot. The thing I think it weird about this ban is that only 2,000 Dutch citizens per shop will get the card needed to buy pot. That seems a little dumb to me. It is one thing to ban foreigners, but to restrict your own people seems to cross a line. ^

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