Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Contrary to popular beliefs, drugs are not legal in the Netherlands, except "soft drugs", i.e. marijuana and mushrooms, which are sold legally in coffeeshops under strictly regulated conditions. As for the other stuff, the police do actively pursue traffickers, especially at Schiphol where there is a special facility to screen people suspected of having swallowed drugs in a plastic pouch or condom. Sometimes entire planeloads arriving from high-risk destinations, like Suriname or the Antilles, are screened. The biggest idiocy in the Dutch system is with the marijuana trade; while the retail part (coffeeshops selling to consumers) is legal, the wholesale part is not. In other words, importing large quantities into the country, or growing your own, is illegal and that prohibition is enforced (for example, police fly around neighbourhoods at night with heat-detection equipment to spot houses with lots of heat lamps in the attic). So one may ask where the coffeeshop owner is supposed to get the stuff he (legally) sells to the public? Nobody knows. A typical Dutch compromise, or fudge. Nathan Ric Carter wrote: > is that an oxymoron if you remove the retired? > > ric > > > On Sep 17, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > >> retired narcotics cop in Holland > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands *Opportunistic Image Acquisition* General photography: http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville: http://www.frozenlight.eu/fotosevilla Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!