Dutch Finally Outlaw Cannabis Tourism!

we are to blame for their intolerance, i've spoken to many europeans whilst hitchhiking who say british and american people are ruining their cities

we use amsterdam like a global back alley. we party, fight and treat everybody else like dirt - i've seen this, particularly with drinking.

weed is the very least of the cities problems.

 

i actually wanna see anne franks attic... i didnt get time to last time

 

you missed very little, honestly.

 

yeah i heard its not much.. but i studied her,, so i was interested...





but honestly, if that ban comes in, i doubt i'll go back over :sunny:

 

so I can only watch the cannibus cup now? Those fuckheads think they fucking own weed or what?

 

Yah, that is how I feel. I mean, call me crazy, but I did not smoke once in Amsterdam and drink very little when traveling in general. I know some people are respectful and I personally have nothing against people who just wanna chill and get stoned/wasted. I am sure anyone in this topic is chill. However, a lot of tourists are not "chill", and are, quite frankly, idiotic as you say. I have friends from Netherlands and surrounding countries, including some who don't really smoke much or at all. It is interesting to hear things from their perspective. Because quite frankly, a few of them do get annoyed at people who treat Amsterdam as just a playground. Because it gets to the point where one of my friends is like "You know, people live and work here too."

 

I see it as the dutch waving candy before our eyes then snatching it up like the parent of an impetulant child.

You're fucking up the whole movement now

 

I would imagine weed brings in way too much tourism for this to go through. Even if it does, the market gap will hopefully lead some other country w/ already est. decriminalization laws (Switzerland, Portugal) to step it up and start a brand new coffee-shop culture.

:sultan:

 

So I've been seriously thinking and saving for a trip somewhere out of the US. Amsterdam and Munich are on the list since I'd be traveling late September this year. I really hope this law will not go through because yes, I plan on hitting up a few coffee shops around the town between touring the obvious tourist attractions and a river tour over the course of 3 days.

Are the hostels dangerous there? I am still deciding on that or a hotel.

I'm not violent and really just wanna chill and have a great time. The electronic music or jazz scene would be nice to checkout as well.
Hopefully I'm seen as a friend and not foe while walking around and having the typical experience there.

I know my post is alittle mixed between tourism and the weed situation but figured I'd let it fly.

Peace!

 

looks like the dutch have turned stupid all of a sudden. they are turning their backs in front of big bucks (sorry for the pun) for no apparent good reason.
no problem: the czech are WAAY more of a pleasant people and there is a tolerance law now. Prague will soon become the new Mecca of Grass. :2thumbsup:

 

Absolutely terrible news for everyone

 

I hope someone puts an end to Geert Wilders before the end of the year too.

 

I don't feel that it is really the end for coffeeshops and cannabis tourism in Holland yet, the smoking ban already failed and I think this is also going to fail eventually.

http://www.hiptravelguides.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&id=347&site=1

 

Really?

I don't give a fuck.

They can say it's as historically rich as they want, and having sampled their cheese, I know that's good, but really..... Why the FUCK would I go to a little rainy country on the other side of the pond, if they don't even have pot I can smoke while being "tolerated"? Yeah yeah yeah, it's good..... so's cali's and colorado's. Doesn't organ have good weed, and tolerate it pretty well? It's rainy and shitty there too. I used to get good pot in new england, it's rainy there.

I was probably never going to go there, I can smoke pot just fine here and have little reason to pay thousands of dollars on TOP of the high prices they charge for tourist pot that's not as good as my pot, but.... FUCK that and fuck them, if they don't want it they won't get it, don't know who but SOMEONE in the first world is going to full on legalize very soon, and the rest of the prohibitionist losers will just sit around listening to the sucking sound of everyone's spare cash gravitating toward that place, until they feel like legalizing themselves.

Also, this is in response the the DEA using them as a "the dutch destroyed their country" example with nothing to back up their assetation. Pressure from the US government. I wouldn't want to spend my money in a cowardly country of spineless profiteers who want to "tolerate" and hide from what they really are and then cave to the US, anyway.

/rant

 

:/ meh..

I had hoped to go to amsterdam sometime.. But I wouldnt have enough money or time for at least a couple years, and hopfully by that time I´ll be able to buy it legaly without leaving the country anyway.

 

Well you know... some of us still live on THIS side of the pond and weed in the country where I come from is generally about as crap as it goes, so WE would kinda like things to stay the way they are...

So you live in california, bully for you. I don't, so I give a fuck about this, eh.

 

Well I don't live in cali, but they supply the whole damn US... We've got canada one way, mexico the other, and cali and colorado.... Really, we can get all the good pot OR brick we need in the US, there's individual dry areas but if you can travel a little bit it's all accesible. Drugs are just really easy to get here. The ones that are hard to find are psychedelics, and that all depends on the scene you're in. But it's the non addictive ones that make you see tracers that are the victims of the war on pot and addictive drugs, somehow. They bust like two people and psychedelics disappear for months or years, we're still feeling their big LSD bust 11 years ago.... But the real war's on pot, and it's on every corner.

I thought you guys had an okay hash trade? I know lots of it's cut to shit, but I thought it was like weed here, you can find the grade you want to pay for?

 

lol @ this!!

what a joke

 

You can get it, but you need to know the right people and you need to splash you cash about if you want to keep a hold of a good dealer. Most of the more reputable supplier don't like putting it about, they like people to buy a lot of it as opposed to having 30 guys a day coming round your house all buying £20 each..

Holland is the only place I know within 10,000 square miles I can be guaranteed to score something decent, so I'd like to know that if I ever make it back there I wont have to start asking all my friends to score for me all the time. Pretty sure I could still buy some in some of the Moroccan coffeeshops and maybe the dutch ones in Nijmegen. Once they get to know you they sometimes sell you a bit more than 5g per day.

Last bit of weed I bought here gave me a sore throat, a headache and fucked my lungs up. It's not the first time it has happened either, and I'm really fed up with this shit.

I sometimes think that one day when I am old, or even sooner I'll just cave in and start smoking tobacco like everyone else and stop caring about my health. it's just a constant fucking battle and I'm fed up with it, when it gets to the point where maintaining a healthy lifestyle means that you are not really enjoying your life that much you might as well just give in.