Europe: Dutchman Busted for Smoking Tobacco in Cannabis Coffee House
In the first coffee shop bust since the Dutch imposed a ban on tobacco smoking in public places earlier this year, an unnamed 27-year-old Amsterdam man has been issued a fine for smoking a marijuana joint laced with tobacco, the Netherlands Information Service reported. If he fails to pay the fine, his case will automatically advance to the courts, where it would be the first case to punish someone for illegally smoking a legal product in a legal business selling an illegal product. (Marijuana remains illegal under Dutch law, although the Dutch pragmatically regulate its sale.)
downstairs of a coffee shop, Maastricht (courtesy Wikimedia)
Although Dutch police are not charged with enforcing the smoking ban -- it is the domain of the Food and Non-Food Authority (VWA) -- the man was issued a citation by a police officer. "If a police officer signals an infringement, he does not close his eyes to it," according to a police spokesman.
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Comment posted by Anonymous on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 6:40pmI think you missed the cultural and legal irony in "illegally smoking a legal product in a legal business selling an illegal product" -- I mean, this is really rich!
Business owners have been stripped of their inherent property rights...come on, you don't have to work for or patronize a business if you don't agree with their practices.
I think it's time for you to evolve...
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Logic.....
Comment posted by Anonymous on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 5:15pmHonestly, even as a tobacco smoker, I realize how disgusting of a habit it is...... it smells up the room, your clothes, your breath, even your lungs themselves begin to reek like tobacco tar. One should not ruin a useful medicine like marijuana with the likes of tobacco.
Tobacco only has a topical medicinal use, that is for blood clotting at the wound site. When combusted, or consumed (ingested), tobacco leads to a rainbow of different diseases and disorders. Tobacco, other than its topical use is a pure killer, and takes out the population of a small city every year in Canada alone.
I would have arrested him for putting tobacco into ANYTHING that is meant as a medicine, because tobacco ruins that.
Mixing a killer like tobacco into a life saving medicine like Cannabis insults those of us who use Cannabis as a medicine, and does nothing to make politicians more aware of it medicinal properties.
All you people out there that mix like that...... Ewwww......... If anyone ever tried to sell me pot when it's laced with tobacco, I'd laugh in their face.
EARTH JOINTS ARE DISGUSTING!!!!
If I make myself coffe with
Comment posted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 9:02amIf I make myself coffe with exactly the Dunkin' Donuts coffee ground, they use to make their coffee it doesn't taste as good as the coffee they sell, by far not. Why? I mean; I used the same one? What do they make different? I have tried out making the coffee with about every ratio of coffee and water, but I really never got the taste!I hope anybody can help me...!Dentist Cambridge
I love drinking good coffee,
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 9:52amI really don't know what is
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 2:16pmI really don't know what is the difference between pupping tobacco and cannabis. Yes, tobacco can cause lung cancer for the smoker and equally same out come to person who just sniff it even if they don't smoke. Cannabis on the other hand, can cause addiction for the sniffer much faster that the tobacco sniffer. To bad for the guy, he should have sniff cannabis than tobacco. Injury Attorney Las Vegas
Too bad, why a may just
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 7:44pmDutchman Busted in Cannabis Coffee House
Comment posted by Anonymous on Thu, 03/19/2009 - 11:38pmThat is great news that Dutch imposed a ban on tobacco smoking in public places.
But if a man can catch red handed they will be punished by the Food and Non-Food Authority (VWA) , but i am still wonder that how police can closed their eyes if they see anyone to smoke on public places?
Dutch government should give the all rules to police if they want to execute this ban as successfully.
Wow I am so amazed how the
Comment posted by Anonymous on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 1:29amCoffee fav drink
Comment posted by Anonymous on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 5:12pmCoffee is my favorite drink but haven't visited any coffee house for drinking coffee. Nice to hear about this coffee house i feel like to have a cup of coffee over there :P
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Nobody messes with the LAW
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 1:30pmThat sounds great. Nobody messes with the law otherwise they should get busted very badly. I really hate smokers and smoking in a public place should be punishable by law.
The law is the law. I'm
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 8:15pmThe law is the law. I'm tired of these young punks thinking they can do whatever/wherever they want. I hope they throw the book at him. LOL!!!