http://briarpatchmagazine.com Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news & views. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:36:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/das-toch-dope-man/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/das-toch-dope-man/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:55:08 +0000 admin http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2008/01/18/das-toch-dope-man-the-dutch-decriminalization-debate-moves-to-the-back-door/ “Here, we have Dutch cannabis, Moroccan hash, and Lebanese red hash.” Hendrik Jan van Katwijk gestures to the neatly packaged, labelled, rolled and ready-to-smoke cannabis products that are his stock-in-trade. He is owner of the marijuana coffeeshop Pas Op! (Watch Out!) in the picturesque municipality of Schiedam on the outskirts of Rotterdam. Coffeeshops like Pas Op! are now at the centre of a national debate about legalizing the growing of cannabis. Though the sale of marijuana through coffeeshops has been quasi-legal in the Netherlands for 30 years, the “backdoor” supply of the drug has remained illegal.]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/01/18/das-toch-dope-man/feed/