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COPING WITH A HYPOCRIT POLICY: NETHERLANDS

by 2007

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.

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STATEMENT TO UN CND, March 2007

by PRESS RELEASES FROM OTHERS

From 12 to 16 March 2007, the 50th annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs will take place in Vienna. This will be the last time this Commission meets before the crucial deadline of 2008, when an evaluation should be presented of the global efforts on drug control in the past ten years. An ENCOD-representative will be present at this meeting. ENCOD will present the following statement, signed by the Steering Committee Members.

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DECLARATION “THE ROAD TO VIENNA 2008”

by 2006

On November 7th, 2006, at the Conference “The Road to Vienna 2008” that took place in the European Parliament in Brussels, the following declaration has been agreed upon with the support of Members of the European Parliament from two political groups (GUE/NGL and GREENS) and representatives of more than 50 NGO´s, as well as local and regional authorities from around Europe and beyond.