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Newsbrief:
Dutch
Cannabis
Café
Chains
Vow
to
Invade
Britain
7/26/02
Two famous Dutch cannabis
café companies have announced plans to open as many as 50 coffeehouses
in Britain, vowing a full frontal assault on the police's ability to enforce
the cannabis laws, the London Sunday Telegraph reported this week.
Owners of the Bulldog and the Dutch Experience, both Amsterdam landmarks
for the cannabis crowd, told the newspaper they planned to open the coffeehouses
in an attempt to force acceptance of the drug.
Under the decriminalization
plan recently announced by Home Secretary David Blunkett, there is no provision
for the legal sales of cannabis. But, as the cannabis café
chain owners pointed out, their businesses are technically illegal in Holland,
too, but their success forced a change in Dutch policy which allows them
to operate freely.
The coffeehouse entrepreneurs
told the Telegraph they believed the sheer number of coffeehouses and their
popularity would overwhelm police efforts to suppress them.
The Dutch Experience café
in Stockport, which opened in September, remains in business despite having
been raided three times. The Dutch Experience 2 in Dorset was raided
and four men arrested. It also remains open, but sells only tea,
coffee and cannabis paraphernalia. Independent operators have already
announced plans to open cafés in Edinburgh, Bournemouth and Lambeth.
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Issue #247, 7/26/02
Editorial: Silliness on the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board | State Supreme Court Upholds California's Proposition 215, San Francisco Prepares to Grow Own Medical Marijuana Supply | British Decrim Move Inspires US Editorialists | Transnational Radical Party Takes Aim at Russian Drug Laws | Capitol Hill Press Conference Calls for States' Rights to Medical Marijuana | Libertarian Party Plans Offensive Against Drug Warriors | Newsbrief: Dutch Cannabis Café Chains Vow to Invade Britain | Newsbrief: Cancer Pain Inadequately Treated, Says NIH | Newsbrief: Democratic Presidential Candidate Plays Crime Card -- Calls for Parole End, More Drug Testing for Probationers | Newsbrief: Narcocorridos Banned in Baja California | Newsbrief: Kenyan Students Riot Over Deadly Marijuana Bust | Newsbrief: Portland, Maine, Moving to Provide Anti-Overdose Drug to Addicts, EMTs | Newsbrief: Coked-Out Judge Busted | Newsbrief: Budget Crisis Kills Connecticut Drug Courts | Newsbrief: Bad Week for Marijuana Police -- Two Dead, One Injured in Accidents | Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision | Addictions Discrimination Panel Seeking Testimony | Addendum: Jeff and Tracy | The Reformer's Calendar
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