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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: The_Ripper on June 05, 2011, 01:48:02 AM
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Holland is to bar foreigners from its infamous cannabis-selling coffee shops.
Anti-drugs laws will see restrictions placed on who can use the shops, which allow patrons to buy and smoke drugs legally.
The rules, called ‘tourism suicide’ by some, could put an end to many of the tens of thousands of visits made by Britons to Amsterdam every year.
Under legislation spearheaded by far-right politicians, only Dutch residents will be able to enter the cannabis-selling premises.
By the end of the year, would-be customers will have to sign up for a one-year membership, or ‘dope pass’, to the coffee shops.
Each shop will be allowed a maximum of 1,500 members.
Opposition MPs say the move could cost the country millions of pounds a year in lost revenue.
They also fear Dutch residents, who are allowed to possess 5g of marijuana, could sell to tourists at massively inflated prices.
But a statement from the Dutch health and justice ministries said: ‘We attract other types of tourists apart from drugs tourists.
‘This law will put an end to the nuisance and criminality associated with coffee shops and drugs trafficking.’
The country decriminalised ‘soft’ drugs in the Seventies, and has around 750 coffee shops. About 220 are in Amsterdam – mostly in the city’s red light district, where prostitution is also legal.
Coffee shops, the first one was called ‘Mellow Yellow’, were seen as a useful weapon in controlling the use of drugs.
It allowed people to walk in off the street and order their favourite brand of marijuana rather than giving money to a potentially flourishing black market.
By the 1980s, the shops were left alone by the authorities and had become an established part of Dutch life, famed throughout the world as a symbol of the country’s tolerance.
One - The Bulldog - even opened up in an old police headquarters in one of Amsterdam’s most-visited squares.
They soon became big tourist attractions.
Up to a million British tourists visit Amsterdam each year, many of them drawn by the appeal of the coffee shops.
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I don't blame them.
Tourists are usually assholes. Not all, but many. They will miss the revenue they get from the tourists though.
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I don't blame them.
Tourists are usually assholes. Not all, but many.
Most of the tourists are Germans, so yeah I feel sorry for them.
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Don't expect this to happen any time soon, the city of Amsterdam has already objected to the plans.
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I don't blame them.
Tourists are usually assholes. Not all, but many.
Most of the tourists are Germans, so yeah I feel sorry for them.
Most of the tourists are not germans
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so youre telling me tha Amsterdam move is no good smh...guess im saving all of my money 4 europe, africa, cuba, brazil, jamaica, and germany
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so youre telling me tha Amsterdam move is no good smh...guess im saving all of my money 4 europe, africa, cuba, brazil, jamaica, and germany
I'ma visit Europe and Germany in the near future too.
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thats like vegas making gambling illigal.
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there are plans of making all drugs legal over here. :banana_trippin: :banana_trippin: :banana_trippin: :banana_trippin: :banana_llama: :banana_llama: :banana_llama: :banana_llama:
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so youre telling me tha Amsterdam move is no good smh...guess im saving all of my money 4 europe, africa, cuba, brazil, jamaica, and germany
I'ma visit Europe and Germany in the near future too.
hookers, booze, and weed! even tho it sounds like a regular night on tha southside i have a feeling they get down overseas. i always wanted to hit a chick from the UK doggystyle while she moans my name. one of these days that dream will come true. tha only way 2 go over there is WITHOUT your girl tho, u know she'll just get in the way lol
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lol, they get rid of the only reason to go to the place?
i dont see this happening their bluffing, businesses will close or suffer if they do this.
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I live in Maastricht, which is at the border of Belgium (and not that far away from Germany).
Around here the crime rate is getting worse, with drug runners (foreigners who drive cars around all day looking for drug tourists, when they find them they run them down and force them to buy a lot of drugs) and drug tourists all around the city.
I worked at a hostel where the customers were like 75% drug tourists.. they just go crazy buying weed, shrooms, coke, heroin whatever.
Now they want to take all the coffeeshops in Maastricht (around 10-15) and put 'em all in one corner of an industrial area.. anybody seen The Wire? Hamsterdam? I can see it happening already.
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Oh yeah and they wanted to include a similar membership idea, with like a YES for people living within a 20 km radius and NO for everyone beyond that.
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thats like vegas making gambling illigal.
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I live in Maastricht, which is at the border of Belgium (and not that far away from Germany).
Around here the crime rate is getting worse, with drug runners (foreigners who drive cars around all day looking for drug tourists, when they find them they run them down and force them to buy a lot of drugs) and drug tourists all around the city.
I worked at a hostel where the customers were like 75% drug tourists.. they just go crazy buying weed, shrooms, coke, heroin whatever.
Now they want to take all the coffeeshops in Maastricht (around 10-15) and put 'em all in one corner of an industrial area.. anybody seen The Wire? Hamsterdam? I can see it happening already.
the wire is bullshit. It's a tv show ain't no street niggas gonna come up with that pinch perfect scheme to slang. Anyone that believes otherwise is a moron, a square that only seen shit on tv.
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the wire is bullshit. It's a tv show ain't no street niggas gonna come up with that pinch perfect scheme to slang. Anyone that believes otherwise is a moron, a square that only seen shit on tv.
actually it wasn't bullshit and i'm not just saying this just to bullshit you or start some chit with you. like i've told u and otherz before, Baltimore breeds a whole different kind of nigga.
"The Wire" was based off real life events happening everyday, why do u think tha material was so raw and so "true to life" and the way they showed it made it seem effortlessly. don't get it twisted, "The Wire" may be a TV show but in no way shape or form was any of that bullshit. Snoop just got hemmed up last year (or a few months ago) getting caught up in a heroin ring sting.
Baltimore has the highest murder rate for a city in the entire WORLD (do your research). I think next to it is New Orleans and St. Louis but I'm not exactly sure. It's worse than Compton.
And honestly I wish this wasn't true considering my family lives on the EastSide in the City (where "The Wire" was tapped at) and crazy shit LITERALLY happens everyday but it's real.
Ask anybody YOU KNOW who's been to Baltimore (or even a random stranger at a bar lol). Nobody wants to go back to Baltimore, everybody hates it becuz niggaz out there are fuckin' crabs (which is why Maryland is known for it's Crabs if u ask me). It's an entire City filled with nothing but fuckin' crabs and if you don't know anybody out there and they catch chu' out by yourself (regardless of where you're at) they'll "bank" you (their term for jumpin' you and beating you to death or close to it - atleast unconscience, LITERALLY). It happens EVERYDAY.
sorry 4 tha drawn out essay and I know you'll probably clown me 4 it but "The Wire" has to be 1 of the only shows that have actually been real "Reality Show", it just had actors play tha parts, even Concetti (whatever his name was) was based off of Martin OMalley who's the Governor of Maryland today [the facts r there]
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the wire is bullshit. It's a tv show ain't no street niggas gonna come up with that pinch perfect scheme to slang. Anyone that believes otherwise is a moron, a square that only seen shit on tv.
actually it wasn't bullshit and i'm not just saying this just to bullshit you or start some chit with you. like i've told u and otherz before, Baltimore breeds a whole different kind of nigga.
"The Wire" was based off real life events happening everyday, why do u think tha material was so raw and so "true to life" and the way they showed it made it seem effortlessly. don't get it twisted, "The Wire" may be a TV show but in no way shape or form was any of that bullshit. Snoop just got hemmed up last year (or a few months ago) getting caught up in a heroin ring sting.
Baltimore has the highest murder rate for a city in the entire WORLD (do your research). I think next to it is New Orleans and St. Louis but I'm not exactly sure. It's worse than Compton.
And honestly I wish this wasn't true considering my family lives on the EastSide in the City (where "The Wire" was tapped at) and crazy shit LITERALLY happens everyday but it's real.
Ask anybody YOU KNOW who's been to Baltimore (or even a random stranger at a bar lol). Nobody wants to go back to Baltimore, everybody hates it becuz niggaz out there are fuckin' crabs (which is why Maryland is known for it's Crabs if u ask me). It's an entire City filled with nothing but fuckin' crabs and if you don't know anybody out there and they catch chu' out by yourself (regardless of where you're at) they'll "bank" you (their term for jumpin' you and beating you to death or close to it - atleast unconscience, LITERALLY). It happens EVERYDAY.
sorry 4 tha drawn out essay and I know you'll probably clown me 4 it but "The Wire" has to be 1 of the only shows that have actually been real "Reality Show", it just had actors play tha parts, even Concetti (whatever his name was) was based off of Martin OMalley who's the Governor of Maryland today [the facts r there]
dogg, you a 51/50 straight up, u a weird guy and your statements are on the borderline of being making sense. all u say is "baltimore is hood" "baltimore this, baltimore that" "baltimore breeds a whole different type of niggas" honestly man shut the fuck up, nobody believes ur bullshit except you you dumb j-cat.
yea no shit who da hell wants to go to baltimore? who wants to go to east los? compton?, besides couple residential areas ( hoods) its just full of business offices and warehouses.
im not saying that bout baltimore but who da fuck is gonan take a tourist trip to the ghetto when visiting a city? what possible reason would you go there for except being a faggot and saying "i went to the hood". all your gonna be doing is rotting in a neighborhood.
anyways, this shit is bullshit all them street niggas knowing ad the exact time where they need to drop their phones and picking htem up 50 miles out of state. way too much discipline and the cops would of gotten them much earlier. this was supposed to take place in the 2000s? lol yea right, if it were to take place in the 90s its believable.
Ask anybody YOU KNOW who's been to Baltimore (or even a random stranger at a bar lol). Nobody wants to go back to Baltimore, everybody hates it becuz niggaz out there are fuckin' crabs (which is why Maryland is known for it's Crabs if u ask me). It's an entire City filled with nothing but fuckin' crabs and if you don't know anybody out there and they catch chu' out by yourself (regardless of where you're at) they'll "bank" you (their term for jumpin' you and beating you to death or close to it - atleast unconscience, LITERALLY). It happens EVERYDAY.
^ damn your a loser.
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I live in Maastricht, which is at the border of Belgium (and not that far away from Germany).
Around here the crime rate is getting worse, with drug runners (foreigners who drive cars around all day looking for drug tourists, when they find them they run them down and force them to buy a lot of drugs) and drug tourists all around the city.
I worked at a hostel where the customers were like 75% drug tourists.. they just go crazy buying weed, shrooms, coke, heroin whatever.
Now they want to take all the coffeeshops in Maastricht (around 10-15) and put 'em all in one corner of an industrial area.. anybody seen The Wire? Hamsterdam? I can see it happening already.
so im assuming these tourists are straight pussies, because how da fuck would they "force" you to buy drugs. unless these "drug runners" had a gun pointed at me than they cant force me to do nothing, but if they had a gun pointed at me might as well rob me, why the fuck would they do bullshit and take them to drug dealers when they can just rob them.
weird ass shit bruh
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i tried to be civilized but there's always that 'one'. all i got from that was a temper tantrum tbh. How are u gonna call some1 51/50 (like people in real life even use that term) and in the SAME sentence say "borderline of being making sense" ??? that confused tha fuck outta me bruh lol. in real life dogg i think you're 51/50 and u have deep emotional problems and u don't have many friends becuz of that.
Baltimore as a whole is fucked up, not just the City (i guess that's my fault; I should've been more broader). Anyway, you're gay and u act like u need 2 be on medication. I have a feeling in real life you're like Chris from "The Wash" maybe mixed in with a little Kim Jeung but only when you're on your meds. E-Beefing was the 90's, "The Wire" ain't, "The Wire" has been goin on since "Little Melvin"s day (who's on "American Gangster" who's 1 of the few alive and free to talk about it). You have a narrow and simple minded way of viewing life and don't know too much about The Mid-Atlantic, you should be touched (open u up a little more). But let me guess, your City goes harder than my City right? You know all there is to know of course. Who clowns people and has so many typos in their shit, that's some "Midwestryder" shit.
And last, 4 tha record, I wasn't bragging about Baltimore being "hood" at all, I actually wish it was the opposite (which i said) so this whole "let me tell a black guy about himself" shit is redundant and weak (along with this 51/50 shit). Plenty of people take tourist trips to Baltimore (there's a thing or two to do here in Maryland) so either you're wrong again or my crazyness making me hallucinate thousands of people walking up and down the street everyday. I can live with you calling me crazy, but I honestly don't think u can live with tha truth about yourself in my eyes, that's why you're over here asking people about help for your "cousin" and use abunch of harsh words about shit when u talk.
You're no gangster Loon3r, stop trying to put out this imagine that your not. You're not a tough guy in real life. There's a difference between being "Hard" and having an emotional disorder.
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so im assuming these tourists are straight pussies, because how da fuck would they "force" you to buy drugs. unless these "drug runners" had a gun pointed at me than they cant force me to do nothing, but if they had a gun pointed at me might as well rob me, why the fuck would they do bullshit and take them to drug dealers when they can just rob them.
It's like this.. if you buy it, no problem.. if you don't, you get fucked up and robbed.
Get it now?
And by the The Wire reference I just meant the part there they start a legal drug corner where people are basically put together..
I can see that happening here if they basically put all coffeeshops together on one or two streets.
On another note, why are you tripping over someone's reply on this thread? It's just a discussion.
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i tried to be civilized but there's always that 'one'. all i got from that was a temper tantrum tbh. How are u gonna call some1 51/50 (like people in real life even use that term) and in the SAME sentence say "borderline of being making sense" ??? that confused tha fuck outta me bruh lol. in real life dogg i think you're 51/50 and u have deep emotional problems and u don't have many friends becuz of that.
Baltimore as a whole is fucked up, not just the City (i guess that's my fault; I should've been more broader). Anyway, you're gay and u act like u need 2 be on medication. I have a feeling in real life you're like Chris from "The Wash" maybe mixed in with a little Kim Jeung but only when you're on your meds. E-Beefing was the 90's, "The Wire" ain't, "The Wire" has been goin on since "Little Melvin"s day (who's on "American Gangster" who's 1 of the few alive and free to talk about it). You have a narrow and simple minded way of viewing life and don't know too much about The Mid-Atlantic, you should be touched (open u up a little more). But let me guess, your City goes harder than my City right? You know all there is to know of course. Who clowns people and has so many typos in their shit, that's some "Midwestryder" shit.
And last, 4 tha record, I wasn't bragging about Baltimore being "hood" at all, I actually wish it was the opposite (which i said) so this whole "let me tell a black guy about himself" shit is redundant and weak (along with this 51/50 shit). Plenty of people take tourist trips to Baltimore (there's a thing or two to do here in Maryland) so either you're wrong again or my crazyness making me hallucinate thousands of people walking up and down the street everyday. I can live with you calling me crazy, but I honestly don't think u can live with tha truth about yourself in my eyes, that's why you're over here asking people about help for your "cousin" and use abunch of harsh words about shit when u talk.
You're no gangster Loon3r, stop trying to put out this imagine that your not. You're not a tough guy in real life. There's a difference between being "Hard" and having an emotional disorder.
lol at the bolded,how old are you? because you talk like a 12 yr old child. you an insane nigga, you live in your own world. honestly i do feel sorry for your mother having to take care of your skitzo ass.
lol, your on here all day talking "hood" this "hood" that, blabbering online that you done shit, jacked, killed, and supposedly "know mobsters" im sure the FBI wouldnt have trouble finding out about you and your " high profile" life and friends. actin like being a gangsta is hard to do, being hard aint shit, getting a PHD, creating your own theory in your own respectable study is hard to do. niggas seriously a moron.
your a joke bro, you probably dont go out or have friends at all if you really think a bunch of street niggas in the wire can orchestrate the type of operation where they KNOW the exact time when to ditch the phones, exact timing, we live in the 2000's u dumb nigga and that shits just a TV show.
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Loon3r probably talks like one of those Shoalin ninja sensays from the old Wu Tang movies.
Tiger-Piss drinkin' ass, I chop steaks with a karate chop ass, I take brown showers pick out the shrimp n rice and get to eatin' ass, I can swallow a whole dumpling in ducksauce ass faggot. lol. u can't make me upset son, i'd beat your ass in real life. I'd probably catch a felony.
Dude is right tho, son I understood the context. Loon3r's just buggin' out becuz in real life like I said dude really does need the help and I guess attacking me and showing off is his way of venting; taking notes I guess.
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so youre telling me tha Amsterdam move is no good smh...guess im saving all of my money 4 europe, africa, cuba, brazil, jamaica, and germany
Yeah, Amsterdam's becoming a real boring country right now, try Germany and Europe.
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so youre telling me tha Amsterdam move is no good smh...guess im saving all of my money 4 europe, africa, cuba, brazil, jamaica, and germany
Yeah, Amsterdam's becoming a real boring country right now, try Germany and Europe.
lol
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Yeah, Amsterdam's becoming a real boring country right now, try Germany and Europe.
Haha damn, Amsterdam is a city, not a country. Plus Amsterdam is also in Europe :P
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so youre telling me tha Amsterdam move is no good smh...guess im saving all of my money 4 europe, africa, cuba, brazil, jamaica, and germany
Yeah, Amsterdam's becoming a real boring country right now, try Germany and Europe.
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are euro bitches fione?
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are euro bitches fione?
Check the sig dude 8)