Reporting from the BBC news station Saturday, October 1, 2011, the ban will not apply to tourists from Germany and Belgium, two countries which are the origin of the majority of Dutch tourists. In addition, the coffee shop owners resist the implementation of the ban because it will hit sectors of their economies.
Prohibition in Maastricht is intended as a test before being applied in other cities in Orange Affairs. Dutch revenues from the coffee shop alone reached 140 million euros (Rp1, 9 trillion) in the entire year.
There are around 700 coffee shops all over Holland, where trading activities are allowed, although illegal psychotropic drugs. At least 6,000 people visited the coffee shops in Maastricht every day and no more than just a transit before continuing the trip to Belgium or Germany.
But since this day, visitors who do not have a passport stalls Netherlands, Germany, or Belgium will be asked to leave the store. Shops will be equipped with advanced safety scanner to check passports and identity cards, and security personnel will conduct surprise inspection to support the investigation.
Many have criticized this policy violates the European Union's policy on equality and freedom. "All visitors are forbidden to come to the coffee shop marijuana will be repatriated back to their country, because they break the law.
"We feel this will actually increase the crime rate in their home countries," said the chairman of the Coffee Association of Maastricht, Marc Josemans. According to him, the banning of the visit was just no benefit to the Netherlands.
European Court of Justice of the Netherlands imposed a ban on allowing foreign visitors to the coffee shop marijuana as a means of resistance to tourism psychotropic last December. Dutch Justice Ministry. (Umi)
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