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Article: Fewer coffee shops selling marijuana in Netherlands
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- December 22, 2004
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AP Worldstream
12-22-2004
Dateline: THE HAGUE, Netherlands
Fewer coffee shops are openly selling marijuana and hashish in the Netherlands, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday.
Experts cited more restrictive regulations.
The number of cafes selling drugs in the Netherlands dropped 4 percent in 2003 from the previous year to 754 nationwide, the ministry said.
The decline in the number of coffee shops is part of a long-term dip in such shops due to regional laws banning the sale of drugs to minors under 18 and zoning rules keeping such establishments far from schools, said Kitty Pardoel, a Tilburg University researcher.
She ...
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