A PEACE PROPOSAL IN THE WAR ON DRUGS, JUNE 2007
CANNABIS SOCIAL CLUBS
Speech at the Cannabis Tipo Forte Hemp Fair in Bologna, Italy, 1-3 June 2007
CHECKPOINT GAAT VROEGER DICHT
Checkpoint gaat bezoekersstromen indammen
Persbericht
Terneuzen, 8 juni 2007
APPEL DU 18 JOINT
A l’heure où le gouvernement nous promet une ènième politique de tolérance zéro, la question du cannabis est plus que jamais d’actualité.
COPING WITH A HYPOCRIT POLICY: NETHERLANDS
On June 1st, Dutch police acted against coffeeshop Checkpoint in Terneuzen, close to the border with Belgium. In the shop itself and in a private house related to the shop, an amount of almost 100 kilos of cannabis was found that was meant to be sold through the coffeeshop.
Checkpoint, an ENCOD member, is one of the largest coffeeshops in the Netherlands with an average of 2.500 visitors, most of them from Belgium and France. Checkpoint has always co-operated constructively with local authorities to find practical solutions to public order problems in the city related to the coffeeshop tourism, making Terneuzen one of the places where a tolerant approach to cannabis is proving a success. Therefore this police action may fit in a strategy of police and justice to block this process.
