Dutch Court Throws Out Maastricht Coffee Shop Ban on Foreigners

[amsterdamage]

Arrrhh.. that there's the sweet smell of sanity!
Yay for the Dutch judicial system, may it take over the world!

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/...ban_foreigners

A district court judge in the Dutch border city of Maastricht Tuesday overturned a municipal ordinance ordering coffee shops to refuse to serve foreign clients.

The city had imposed the ban as an experimental measure in 2005, in part to appease the neighboring Belgian, French and German governments, who complain that their citizens go to Holland to score, and in part to appease conservative Justice Minister Peit Hein Donner.

Now, a Dutch judge has ruled that because the sale of marijuana is legal in practice under Dutch law, ordinances barring foreigners from partaking in that legal activity amount to discrimination by nationality, which is banned by the Dutch constitution unless there are objective, reasonable grounds to justify it.

The judge held that no such grounds exist in the present case.

[GigZ-16]

hmmmmm

[GolgiApparatus]

beautiful

[Fcat]

May the wisdom of the Dutch continue, and spread like the seeds from a field of wild cannabis.

[plugged]

I wish America's courts weren't pussies and were more like the Dutch.

[AllDayPeterson]

Its funny, when I visited my cousin in Germany he said he and his friends would always drive to Maastricht to score and bring it back since its the closest city to them. He said he had never been to Amsterdam even though its only like 2 hours further!

Maastricht is only like 3-4 hours from them, the thing that blows my mind is that they would barely make the trip it seemed to far, if it was me I would be going every weekend.