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Netherlands switches track on drug tourism

2012-07-24 1 Dailymotion

The Netherlands is known for its liberal attitude to marijuana, but its new government hopes to change that.<br /><br />Politicans say the coffeeshops were meant for local consumption, and that the many tourists who come to the country to get high are a nusiance. <br /><br />Some towns have already shut down their coffeeshops, and others are moving in the same direction.<br /><br />But critics of the government's moves to restrict marijuana sales argue the crackdown could merely drive sales underground, and that cutting off the supply would damage the nation's economy. <br /><br />Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker reports from Amsterdam.

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