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Article: EU drugs clampdown could spell trouble for Dutch marijuana 'coffee shops'
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- November 19, 2004
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CONSTANT BRAND, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
11-19-2004
Dateline: BRUSSELS, Belgium
Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner said Friday access to popular Dutch 'coffee shops' to smoke marijuana could be cut for foreigners _ including other EU citizens _ as part of a new European Union drugs control policy.
Donner, whose country holds the EU presidency, said a meeting of EU justice and interior ministers agreed on guidelines for setting up an eight-year drugs action plan in the 25-nation bloc.
Under the strategy EU countries would coordinate efforts to cut supplies of soft and hard drugs as well as demand, through prevention programs and police enforcement.
Donner said his country _ ...
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