Is everyone in the Netherlands on dope?

No. Yes. No. Yes, but so do we. No.

Canada's been moving toward it, and there are plenty of places where it's readily available and cheap, if not acutally legal.

The drugs policy of the Netherlands is based on two principles:
- drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal matter,
- there's a distinction between hard drugs and soft drugs.


So-called coffee shops are allowed to sell soft drugs openly, and to keep supplies greater than the amounts allowed by law for personal use, though they are only allowed to sell individual customers the amount allowed for personal use. The coffeeshops' wholesale suppliers, however, are still criminalized. In practice the limit of the "for personal use" clause is 4 cannabis plants per person for growing, or possession of 5 grams of hashish or marijuana per person. Example of sentence in 2004 for possession of 360 grams: confiscation and a fine of €750. Coffeeshops pay taxes just like any other business, though there are some special exemptions for them, mostly because they cannot show receipts for their supply of marijuana.


I highly recommend reading the following PDF-file
Cannabis policy, implementation and outcomes (Kamerstuk, 23-4-2004 [92 pag., 630 kB])

There must be something in the stars today....the Netherlands and pot have come up waayyy too much here already in a relatively short period of time. "It's okay officer, I have glaucoma."

It's that new Dutch kid. Bad influence, he is.

Is everyone in the Netherlands on dope?

Nah, only nimh and his friends.

Actually, they are in serious trouble, the Dutch. Drowning in a sea of discarded packages of havarti Cheetoes...

Nothing wrong with legal pot. Who does it hurt?

The kettles...

LOL

Thats pretty much it. :wink: