Smoking to be banned in Amsterdam coffee shops
 

politicians, what are they good for anyway..


Smoking is to be banned in Amsterdam's famous coffee shops where cannabis is sold without fear of prosecution.

Under a new public smoking ban, coffee shops will still be able to sell joints but customers may have to go outside to smoke them.


http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_785707.html

From a US reform list


"The word I am receiving about this from Fredrick Polak, MD of the
Netherlands Drug Policy Foundation, Amsterdam is that it may not be as bad
as it sounds. Coffee shops that have the space may be able to comply by
simply having a non-smoking area. Sounds like CNN is being, well, a little
sensational. The Dutch are a very practical people and really don't wish to
have the folks in the coffee shops forced outside to sidewalk tables -
which are common there."


Lickmymonster
:1orglaugh

Coffeeshops will put a no smoking sign on the toilet door.....
problem solved.

DynaMite :2 cents:

Those new smoking laws make me want to shoot politicians. The bloody fucknuts should stop their fucking meddling.

thats why govt is dum in alot of ways,
they have to say they r doin somethin so they just choose dum shit and change it or re advise it.

:thumbsup

No, actually. The way it looks now is that smoking will be banned in all bars, coffeeshops etc., not for the customers' health, but for the health of the employees. Since an employee does not necessarily come to a coffeeshop to smoke, it will be banned there as well. Not only that, they want to ban it in every part of a bar/club/coffeeshop/whatever, since employees come everywhere.

Now, you could argue that if someone doesn't want to inhale any second hand smoke, he should not be an idiot and just choose another profession, but apparently the politicians over here feel that because of the odd chance that some moron wants the job without the smoke, it should be banned completely.

"how dare you smoke in Amsterdam, that's so immoral!"

"I'm sorry, what did you say? I couldn't hear you over the screams of the 12 year old prostitute I'm fucking"

Don't be an uninformed idiot, please.

It's the same here too but for everyone's sake not just the employees. Still sucks.

The stupid thing about that is that if people really care about it that much, they always have the option to just go to a non-smoking bar or whatever.

Marijuana is a gateway drug, it will ruin your life!

Didn't you see the TV commercial?

Yeah I know the situation....but it will never fly...it's just some
stupid idea but will never be executed. Like "rekening rijden"
Great idea....but it doesn't fly. 50% of the shops/restaurants/bars
will dissapear because no one would go there anymore....that is
if anyone at all would obey such idiot law if it would ever come.
What will they do.....arrest you when you smoke? LOL

Close the places that ignore it....that would cost them so fucking
much money that it will never be done. Dutch politics has countless of these idiotic ideas and 99% never make it. It's just
published to keep certain health freak groups patient....like Ya
See we're busy working on it............We DO listen

DynaMite

or they could wear gas masks... it's freedom to smoke..and freedom to not smoke.. it's fucked they just descide on 1 and make it a law

Don't forget your daughter will get pregnant if she tries it, and your son will shoot his friend. However that would have nothing to do with the fact that you keep a loaded, unlocked handgun in a desk drawer in a house where your kids are left alone. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Just think for 1 second how many tourist just visit Holland to get
stoned in a coffeeshop.....fuck tulips and cheese....Marijuana is
the money maker and they certainly know that. It's not just
for a reason why it's legal in Holland.....it makes money tons of it.

Coffeeshops pay tax on selling weed. But it's not allowed for them
to get tax return on the weed they buy.....since that's still "illegal"
hahahaha is that slick or what?

DynaMite

Don't blame the parents, it's the drugs that make kids bad!

drugs are bad. This is one area the chinks are right about.

And what exactly do you care if it is bad or not for other people? Should we close down all McDonalds franchises because their food is not the most healthy in the world?

Who cares if drugs are bad, or if smoking is bad, or if drinking is bad, or if Big Macs are bad. Educate people on the risks, then let them make their own decisions.

Thats what I think... shit if someone wants to use crack, H, or whatever and kill themselves.. fine, we do not need them around anyway.

Make them all legal,let those who want to fuck their lives up do so, as long as they do not effect anyone else.

And if anyone says that by making them legal will do more harm to those who do not use, all I can say is look at all the non-drinkers who are killed by drunk drivers each year.... Yet, alcohol IS legal.

:2 cents:

and?

Oreo cookies... they are bad for you too... There was a guy in california that was going to sue nebisco because they are unhealthy.

Get a life.... what a fucking moron!

I guess I better run back for a last toke eh ??:stoned

Hey Dyna, hope married life is treating you well :)

Can you please explain "rekening rijden"? Thanks