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	Drugs policy in the Netherlands: Hard drug "tourism"
		Drug tourism occurs in various municipalities along the eastern and southern borders of the Netherlands, such as Arnhem, Venlo, Heerlen and Maastricht, and in a number of towns further into the interior of the country.
		The battle against drug tourism on what is known as the Hazeldonk route (Hazeldonk being a border crossing between the Netherlands and Belgium), which runs from Lille, through Antwerp, to Rotterdam, is being carried out in cooperation with the French and Belgian authorities.
		Drug tourists from neighbouring countries who commit criminal offences and as a result cause breaches of the peace must take into account the likelihood that they will be deported immediately under the terms of the Aliens Act.
	www.drugtext.org /library/reports/wvc/drugnota/0/s26.htm (817 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		On drugs tourism, analysis of police data of the 1,190 cautions for possession since last year suggests that there has been no increase in the number of people coming into the borough to buy drugs.
		She believes the borough "has more drug dealers than ever before", and that children are being given the message that "cannabis is no worse for you than sweets".
		Drug workers insist, though, that cannabis use is the least of the borough's drug problems.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4452589,00.html (1262 words)

	Drugs policy in the Netherlands: continuity and change
		In the Netherlands drugs policy is therefore differentiated according to the seriousness of the potential damage to health which may be caused by the use or abuse of the drug in question.
		As elsewhere, however, drugs policy in the Netherlands is also aimed at raising the threshold for the use of hard drugs as much as possible by the strict use of the criminal law.
		The sale of drugs, drug-related crime and certain types of anti-social behaviour by addicts, such as throwing away used needles in public places, mean that the tolerance levels of residents in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the big cities in particular are chronically exceeded.
	www.taima.org /nl/nl_uk.htm (20824 words)

	Ayahuasca Tourism in South America
		Perhaps the ayahuasca tourism phenomenon is best understood as part of this culture, a culture that increasingly seeks to know itself and nature better, both as individual entities and interconnected systems.
		drug tourists perceive the natives as timeless and ahistoric" (1994:17).
		Drug Tourism in the Amazon, Anthropology of Consciousness, (March, 1994): 16-19.
	www.maps.org /news-letters/v08n3/08359gru.html (2666 words)

	Drugs policy in the Netherlands: Drug tourism and coffee shops
		The export of soft drugs is an indictable offence under the Opium Act, irrespective of the quantity involved.
		Under certain circumstances the sale of soft drugs to a foreigner or a Dutch intermediary could make the operator of a coffee shop an accessory to the export of drugs, which would render them guilty of an indictable offence, even where the amount concerned was less than thirty grammes.
		If foreign drugs tourism does not decline, periodic special checks will be conducted to establish whether foreign tourists are exporting quantities of cannabis bought in coffee shops or elsewhere which can be sold on; this will be intended to underline the new policy.
	www.drugtext.org /library/reports/wvc/drugnota/0/s45.htm (1044 words)

	Dail Debates Official Report - 18-04-00
		While the use of illicit drugs is a nation-wide phenomenon, heroin abuse presents particular problems because of its public health implications and close association with crime.
		Recognising the need to tackle drug misuse on a national basis, funding was also allocated under the fund to seven nation-wide initiatives which are designed to inform and raise awareness of the dangers of drug misuse, particularly through peer education.
		Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation (Dr. McDaid): As the Deputy is aware, the Operational Programme for Tourism 1994-1999, included provision for 33 million ECU, £26 million, in ERDF grant aid for the construction of a conference centre in Dublin capable of handling up to 2,000 delegates.
	www.irlgov.ie /debates-00/18april/sect7.htm (8123 words)

	Acknowledgements
		For this reason the penalties that may be imposed for drug-related offences and the priority given to the various offences in investigation and prosecution policy, vary in accordance with the nature of both the offence and the substance in question.
		In addition to the prevention of drug use, considerable attention is devoted to the risk of addiction to hard drugs as a result of occasional use.
		The average age of the drug addicts participating in methadone programmes is 36.
	www.healthlaw.nl /drugs1.html (3472 words)

	USATODAY.com - Drug trade, tourism prosper in Cancun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		All this would be very bad news for a city that survives on tourism, except for the fact that the tourists seem not to notice.
		After two more agents staggered up the main street in town shot in the legs, suspects began to be hauled in for questioning, including the attorney general's top representative in Cancun as well as the head of the police force and half a dozen members of his staff, including the two wounded agents.
		Drug lords and their corrupt protectors, it turns out, like Cancun as much as any Ohio retiree.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-12-13-cancun_x.htm (827 words)

	thetyee.ca Latest Marijuana Ideas from Holland
		What a joke Bush's war on drugs is considering there is a tape recording of a phone conversation, the contents of which were reported in some mainstream papers, where Bush implies that he used to use it.
		Medical use of both drugs was very common, pre-hysteria, but spillover, pressures against medical use, caused Cannabis to be eliminated from medicine entirely, while Opiates, as the best pain relievers around, were retained but played a smaller and smaller role as an ingredient in common medicines.
		Colin: If you think drug dealers are on a par with child molesters, maybe we should start throwing tobacco co. execs in jail for pushing their addictive deadly dope while lying for years about the risks, and lying about their advertising designed to recruit kids to smoking (eg.
	www.thetyee.ca /Views/2005/06/08/MarijuanaIdeas (9963 words)

	HOTREC DECLARATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Are concerned by the association of the words ' tourism ' with ' drug '.
		This association is highly damaging to the image of the tourism industry.
		When drug use / addiction occurs, this is due to societal and personal problems, and drug use / addiction may occur under any number of circumstances not related to tourism activities.
	www.hotrec.org /areas/tr-trade/03.html (73 words)

	Drug Policy Alliance: Dutch Official Seeks Further Liberalization to Solve Crime Problems
		Leers, now the Mayor of Maastricht, a Dutch border city, is calling for the creation of "cannabis boulevards" in border areas to ease problems associated with cross-border drug tourism.
		He also seeks regulation of the supply of marijuana (cannabis) to coffee shops to eliminate a robust fl market created by the fact that production of the plant is illegal in the Netherlands.
		Border areas attract a large number of "drug tourists" from Germany, Belgium and France – Maastricht has 1.5 million visitors every year, the majority of whom come not only to enjoy the pleasant atmosphere of the city, but also to buy marijuana.
	www.drugpolicy.org /news/052505dutch.cfm (627 words)

	Converted W. Va. Grievance Board Decision
		He was removed from covered employment, underwent counseling by a substance abuse professional during a 12-week drug rehabilitation period, and was restored to full duty in 1997 after successfully completing the rehabilitation period and counseling.
		For the purpose of this policy, covered duties are those that relate to the operation and/or repair of a commercial motor vehicle as defined in 49 CFR part 382.107 and the employee is required to possess a Commercial Driver's License as a condition of employment.
		PEDTA utilizes the same Alcohol and Drug Policy as the West Virginia Department of Transportation; thus, the ALJ's analysis and decision in Ferrell are precedential in determining whether “just cause” exists under that Policy for Grievant's dismissal, or whether his dismissal deserves to be mitigated.
	www.state.wv.us /admin/grievanc/decision/dec2001/boyd.htm (5748 words)

	World Magazine Blog: Comment on Dutch rethink drug tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The drug is merely more convenient access to the state of euphoria than is having nothing to do and nothing to worry about on a day which turns out to be gorgeous.
		But let us not blame the drug for allowing the man who is bitter at heart to be bitter at the mouth - it is the man's bitterness which is the evil, not his success or failure to hide the fact.
		I'd like you to be aware of the many gradients of effect that are present in all drug use, licit and illicit; I don't want you to suffer from the delusion that illegal drugs automatically, inevitably, and immediately thrust one into the depths of intoxication, in which one is wholly impaired physically and mentally.
	www.worldmagblog.com /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=3427 (7203 words)

	HuumeBoikotti - The Drug Boycott Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The so-called drug tourists can sometimes be responsible for weakening the local people’s opportunities to live according to their traditions.
		As a result, opium cultivation moved to Burma and Laos, from where the drug is smuggled to the tourists visiting the mountain regions of Thailand.
		Even though drug use may seem fairly commonplace and risk-free, every now and then some tourists are nailed to prove to other countries that drug traffic is being seriously fought against.
	www.huumeboikotti.org /drugtourism.htm (382 words)

	AlterNet: DrugReporter: Drug Tourists Go Dutch
		For the past 15 years, lawmakers have pursued tough-on-drugs policies in an effort to create a "drug free America," plowing billions of dollars into prosecuting and imprisoning drug offenders.
		Not according to many drug policy observers of each political stripe, who claim the war on drugs has been a complete, and extremely costly, failure.
		With over 100,000 supporters and eight offices nationwide, the Alliance is the nation's leading organization working to end the war on drugs.
	www.alternet.org /drugreporter/22110 (895 words)

	Pot tourists targeted in Dutch coffee shop crackdown. 21/05/2005. ABC News Online
		Tourists hoping to buy a cannabis joint in Dutch coffee shops could be in for a rude awakening this year under a test plan to curb drug tourism.
		Soft drugs are legally banned in the Netherlands but under its policy of "tolerance", people are allowed to have less than 5 grams of cannabis in their possession.
		They include an estimated 1.5 million drug tourists, the city's Mayor Gerd Leers said on Friday at a conference on tackling the cross-border soft drugs problem.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200505/s1373761.htm (538 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Europe seeks to fight 'drugs tourism'
		The Netherlands and the UK face the biggest problems in dealing with drugs couriers coming from the region, and they are the organisers of Friday's meeting of experts at Europol headquarters.
		And, after reports showed that 10% of passengers on flights between Jamaica and Britain could be carrying cocaine, both countries recently tightened security as part of a plan to stop drug mules bringing in an estimated half of Britain's crack cocaine.
		Most of them swallow around half a kilo of the drug wrapped in condoms to earn between $2,000 and $5,000 from the drug barons.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2420031.stm (310 words)

	cannabisnews.com: Drug Tourists Go Dutch
		Of all the reactions I had in the past to legal prescription drugs it was not being able to sleep and when I did sleep it was restless.
		It is a coincidence because I had a similar experience with a prescription drug in the eighties.
		I felt "ten feet tall" and hugely, outrageously noticeable, to the point that I imagined that everyone in the room went silent when I walked in and that everything I said was loud and weird and bounced off the walls.
	www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread20734.shtml (3556 words)

	cannabisnews.com: Dutch Try To Cut Drug Tourism
		The liberal Dutch laws on soft drugs, whose use is officially illegal but is condoned in a tacit acknowledgment that there are insufficient police to arrest all offenders, have been an irritant to other European countries.
		The Justice Ministry will attack drug tourism with international police cooperation and target large-scale hemp growing operations as well as the "criminal involvement" of so-called "grow-shops" where people can buy seeds to grow their own pot.
		Think of it -- the one drug that causes the most violence in its users is the most tolerated drug in the political system.
	www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread18722.shtml (1186 words)

	"Drug Tourists" Provoke Competing Cries for Regulation, Repression in Holland
		The phenomenon is most acute in Maastricht, a city in Holland's Limburg region, a hook of land surrounded by Belgian and German territory.
		According to Maastricht Mayor Gerd Leers, speaking at a cross-border conference last weekend on the coffee shops and "drug tourism," some 1.5 million foreigners come to Maastricht each year to score, usually before returning home with their stashes.
		The massive foreign patronage of the coffee shops in Maastricht has resulted in problems ranging from chronic traffic jams to illicit hard drug sales, unlicensed "one kilo" houses where buyers seeking more than a personal stash can score, and a raft of unregulated small-scale home grown operations, with all their attendant dangers.
	stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/388/drugtourists.shtml (1369 words)

	Encyclopedia: Drug tourism
		Amsterdam is probably the world's most popular destinations for drug tourists, due to its government's acceptance of marijuana use and possession.
		See also: List of street names of drugs A street name is a slang name given to a drug other than its popular or chemical names.
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Drug-tourism (235 words)

	Dutch Government Seeks Ban on Foreigners in Coffee Shops
		The coffee shops have generated visible foreign "drug tourism" for at least 20 years as repressed Americans, Germans, and Britons, among others, seek to sample what they view as the sweet life.
		Venlo, a town of 90,000 along the German border that is home to five official coffee shops, numerous unsanctioned ones, as well as independent hard drug dealers, is ground zero in the drug tourism debate.
		While the town has complained of unruliness around the drug trade, the Venlo Council has gone on record as opposing the ban on foreigners, agreeing with the coffee shop union that it would spark an explosive increase in illegal drug dealing.
	stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/309/coffeeshops.shtml (1271 words)

	Bulletin EU 12-1996 (en): I.9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Joint Action 96/750/JAI adopted by the Council on the basis of Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union concerning the approximation of the laws and practices of the Member States to combat drug addiction and to prevent and combat illegal drug trafficking: point 1.5.10 of this Bulletin
		Council resolution and report on measures to address the drug tourism problem within the European Union: OJ C 375, 12.12.1996; Bull.
		The European Council confirms the priority it attaches to sustained and coordinated action in the fight against drugs making full and coherent use of all the instruments of the Union.
	europa.eu.int /abc/doc/off/bull/en/9612/i1009.htm (497 words)

	The Free Liberal: Dutch Official Seeks Further Liberalization to Solve Crime Problems
		Leers advocates legalization of marijuana production, and supports the idea of centralized locations where people can buy marijuana — "cannabis boulevards" — to alleviate the impact of drug tourism on border cities.
		This story was provided by the Drug Policy Alliance.
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	www.freeliberal.com /archives/001097.html (651 words)

	"Pot Tourists Targeted In Dutch Coffee Shop Crackdown Test? "
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