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Last Tuesday the Netherlands enacted a ban on indoor smoking. And this includes Amsterdam. Yes, Amsterdam. In the place where state-sanctioned hookers are a part of the local charm, in the city that practically invented the Red Light District, you may no longer light up afterward. I’m not joking.
But here’s where it gets weird. Aside from the unromantic €50 shag, Amsterdam’s biggest tourist draw is the network of around eleventy-billion “coffee shops” whose main attraction is the open sale of marijuana. Which is not affected by the nationwide no-smoking order. That’s right. You can still light up a joint. Just no cigarettes. Silly me. I thought smoking was smoking.
Think that’s strange? It gets stranger. Most locals, and some tourists, prefer to smoke a half-and-half mixture of tobacco and cannabis (AHEM — or so I’m told). And now health inspectors will actually be sent out to make sure everyone is smoking pure Maui-wowie.
We wouldn’t want anyone smoking a cigar or a hookah, or cutting their toke with a little Bali Shag. That would be wrong.
One government nimrod told the London Daily Express that “the law is to protect non-smokers from the effects of tobacco smoke. Inspectors can tell if a joint is pure or mixed with tobacco.” I bet they can. And I’m sure they desperately want American and British college kids to know their spliffs are still not contraband. But making it a crime to build a milder joint by mixing in some ordinary tobacco? Marijuana smoke contains higher levels of some toxins than tobacco smoke, after all.
Here’s a thought: Maybe the Dutch are just trying to increase food sales at all those coffee shops. Straight tobacco never gave anyone the munchies, you know.
So I guess if you allow some things - you MUST allow all thing or your a hypocrite??! This is stupid. It’s like saying, if you smoke, you should do heroin too. Get a brain.
This is where the smoking ban really gets ridiculous. Never mind how many pubs have gone out of business because a pub owner is not allowed to decide whether he/she wants smoking indoors or not, which is ridiculous enough, but this??? Oh well, I never did understand why people mixed weed with tobacco anyway.
The stupidest smoking ban I ever saw, before it was banned almost everywhere, was in an open air football stadium. But you could go under the stands where the concessions were and smoke all you wanted. Where it was more closed in. No smoking on beaches is REALLY stupid.
Yeah we can’t even go to a place that serves burgers and beer with our kids anymore because they are all “21 and over” now to allow smoking. Of cigarettes. Not pot. Or 50/50s or whatever.
Well…. no. I was saying that if you’re going to go all public-health on us and ban smoking, you should actually ban smoking. Pot smoking is smoking too, isn’t it? Otherwise you’re just banning tobacco, which is kinda like saying that bars can serve vodka, but not rum.
But marijuana couldn’t possibly be bad for you. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001143.htm
This is possibly the weirdest thing I’ve heard in a while.
I was going to use an analogy on this, but I just can’t.
Lame totally missed the point as The Oversneer pointed out. The hypocrisy lies in the banning of one smoking product and not the other. Amsterdam has always seemed pretty f****d up anyway - this cinches it.
There is quite a difference between herb and tobacco as anyone who smokes can tell you.
Sure, it isn’t healthy for you but lots of things aren’t. What happened to individual liberty?
I recall older tests that showed MJ worse than tobacco but they were using the leaves in their studies. The buds had lower levels. Not that the new studies are doing the same test but the news reports don’t tell you how they did the studies now did they?
It isn’t that different from San Francisco. Cigarette smoking is banned just about everywhere but marijuana enjoys a protected status.
Nice menu. Jack Flash? Purple Haze? Space Tea? I know pot smokers are lame but the least they can do is update the lingo. Are they still driving around in vans with shag carpet too? I have some Edgar Winter Group concert tickets if anyone wants ‘em. I bet they’ll do “Frankenstein”. Wouldn’t that be cool when you’re high?
Damn hippies give the rest a bad name. You’d be surprised at the folks who do smoke now and then. I would bet there are quite a few around your office (assuming you work in one) but they have to hide it. Hard working family types.
It’s just a damn damn shame that the hippy left has made a mockery of herb.
I was wondering what was going on in that office building, what with all the feathered hair and chain wallets.
It’s a good law. Tobacco kills far more people than heroin, never mind tobacco. Most junkies have a harder time kicking the formest.
I have no idea for sure, but maybe it’s because potheads flock to Amsterdam, thus boosting their economy, and tobacco smokers don’t really flock anywhere?
In any case I’m not complaining. I hate cigarettes.
“tobacco smokers don’t really flock anywhere”
Except outside …
@paul
“It’s a good law. Tobacco kills far more people than heroin, never mind tobacco. Most junkies have a harder time kicking the formest.”
Next time don’t post while you’re high.
@Ruby
I’m sorry but aren’t cigarettes, despite all the bans and such, still a billion dollar industry (http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/en/cms/Company/Financial_Information/default.aspx?src=top_nav) and that’s with them willing to help you stop using their own product (http://www2.pmusa.com/en/quitassist/index.asp). I’m pretty sure tobacco smokers are flocking to tobacco.
Nicceee.
“Hey Hey Hey. Smoke Weed Every Day”
i find this pretty funny….how twisted or high is the people in goverment on that country???
(maybe they were high while doing it)
XD XD
Been a loooong time since I toked, but I’ll take those Edgar Winter Group tickets anyway!! Did you ever drop and go to the planetarium for the Floyd show? AWESOME! hehehe
srsly, are those guys still alive?
I have many a fond memory of the Miami Planetarium Pink Floyd Laser Light Shows… fond and strange. The colors, man…
And I don’t know about Edgar Winter, but I did see Roger Waters in concert not long ago! No party goods, though, alas.
I saw Johnny Winter once…blew my mind. Ah, youth
so i cant smoke tobbaco and herb together so what,if i can still smoke my herb pure then im happy,the thing im pissed about is not being able to have a beer with my joint.
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