Martin

Senior Member
Dec 31, 2000
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Great news. The government has decided that from now on you can't buy drugs without a special membership card and these will only be available to residents, not tourists. Maybe that will make the center of Amsterdam less of a toilet. :xfinger: Apparently 1/3 of the city's tourist come just for that.
 

IrishZebra

Western Imperialist
Jun 18, 2006
23,327
True, but the funny houses always factor.

My housemate just shouted at me because she's on her period, aka being a total bitch and getting called up on it.

If you can't control your hormones then you don't deserve equality.
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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just came back from a HUGE demonstration in KL (Bersih 3.0) teargas and all
:shocked: Nice. ;)

Cool. Now if you can get your codpiece back, your outfit will be complete.

Great news. The government has decided that from now on you can't buy drugs without a special membership card and these will only be available to residents, not tourists. Maybe that will make the center of Amsterdam less of a toilet. :xfinger: Apparently 1/3 of the city's tourist come just for that.
Congrats, Martin. Drug tourists should be mercilessly steamrolled.
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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The whole concept of legality-based tourism is a problem. Like underage drinkers in Tijuana or US federal employees with prostitutes in Colombia. It somehow attracts the worst kind of bingers. For some people it's like putting a chocolate shop in the middle of the gym at a fat farm. Worse are the people who act like they're in the gym at a fat farm and someone just opened a chocolate shop.
 

Nzoric

Grazie Mirko
Jan 16, 2011
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The whole concept of legality-based tourism is a problem. Like underage drinkers in Tijuana or US federal employees with prostitutes in Colombia. It somehow attracts the worst kind of bingers. For some people it's like putting a chocolate shop in the middle of the gym at a fat farm. Worse are the people who act like they're in the gym at a fat farm and someone just opened a chocolate shop.
but what do you think will happen to amsterdam once the legality-based tourism disappears? a black market will rise, a market without regulations and more importantly an untaxed market will open. all the facilities are there, the investments are already made. the owners of the weed shops and the red light district as a whole won't just go away. the only difference is that i won't go there, because i can get high semi-legally in denmark aswel, i just wanted to get a wiff of the completely legal experience in amsterdam.
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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but what do you think will happen to amsterdam once the legality-based tourism disappears? a black market will rise, a market without regulations and more importantly an untaxed market will open. all the facilities are there, the investments are already made. the owners of the weed shops and the red light district as a whole won't just go away. the only difference is that i won't go there, because i can get high semi-legally in denmark aswel, i just wanted to get a wiff of the completely legal experience in amsterdam.
I think they won't be Amsterdam's problem anymore and more of their visitors will be civil.

People can go to Libya, Myanmar, Cuba, etc., all they want. That's never been the problem. Amsterdam just used to advertise the fact.
 

Nzoric

Grazie Mirko
Jan 16, 2011
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If what I wanted was to get high I'd probably just stay home instead of going to Europe.
i would've loved to experience amsterdam and what it had to offer. getting high is not just about smoking, it's the scenery and atmosphere too. hence i'm not going, it's not a huge problem :p
 

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