A government commission has opined that Dutch coffee shops that sell cannabis should should cater mainly for local people and not bulk-buying drug tourists from abroad.
"Coffee shops should again become what they were originally meant to be: vending points for local users and not large-scale suppliers to consumers from neighbouring countries," said the body.
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The commission was set up in February to advise the government in a re-evaluation of soft-drug policy, in large part due to an influx of German, French and Belgian drugs tourists in border areas.
The government should consider turning coffee shops, establishments with special licences to sell marijuana, into private members' clubs, it recommended.
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And last September, Roosendaal and Bergen-op-Zoom, two other border councils, announced in March the closure from September of all eight their coffee shops in a bid to curb the "nuisance" of 25,000 drug tourists per week.
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There are some 700 licensed coffee shops, allowed to stock no more than 500 grams of cannabis at a time.
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The commission said Thursday it supported neither the banning nor the full legalisation of cannabis.
Its report will form the basis of a re-evaluation government drug policy, due to be presented to parliament in September, justice ministry spokesman Wim van der Weegen told AFP.
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