donderdag 28 januari 2010

Weed

In the Sixties weed is handled with a tolerance policie, giving grandma's with a few plants a chance to make some extra pocket change as well as keeping people who enjoy the use of cannabis out of the illegality, a stroke of genius or something that should never have happened?

The Tolerance Policie was called The Backdoor Policy because eventhough the drugs could be sold legally, they could not legally buy the drugs they were selling. The Dutch cannabis since then became of better quality, this made it a popular export product. On this day the Dutch cannabis market is a multi billion dollar business.

In the year 2009 weed growers are being actively searched for, since they have grown from amateur grandma's, to professional drugcartels with boobytrapped plantations that can be in normal households or as crazy as underneath swimmingpools and tenniscourts.

Coffeeshops that grow to big are bein closed down in an attempt to keep cannabis sales under control. In 2005 a coffeeshop that had a history of over a thousand years and for that reason the oldest in the world was closed down for having over 20 kilo's of weed in storage.

Drugtourisme is an issue with the borderline community, they overflood the Coffeeshops and in such a way that some of the biggest coffeeshops sell over 5 kilo's a day while they are only allowed to keep half a kilo in storage.

Nowadays with more busts on the weedgrowers everyday,
should the government legalise growth and cash in on all the taxrevenues?
or stop the tolerance policie, with the whole negative spiral that follows after?

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