The whole EU should function like Norway does with the other countries. I absolutely hate the EU interfering with local laws.
For example, and one we are famous for. Our weed. We, the peasants, want our coffeeshops to be capable of just buying their weed legally. Instead we have this twisted thing in the law that they still buy it illegal, aka it is still a criminal business. Dutch people are sick and tired of illegal weed growth, because it happens a lot, and I don't have to explain the consequences of such.
In the meantime, the EU is blocking the Dutch to pass laws onto getting growing it legally. We could make so much money on taxes onto it on top if it, not to mention we could control what is stuffed into the weed. Sadly enough it happens there are other drugs thrown into it. Whereas a lot of coffeeshops are very strict about checking the quality, it does happen. And it shouldn't.
But hey, the EU doesn't want it, so our EU sucking up politicians are smothering any law change in its crib. While it should be so much better.
Not to mention the EU demanded us to close the coffeshops in the bordercities with Germany and Belgium. It would reduce drugrunners from other countries coming over they said. It has been a very odd an selective thing as well on which cities shops got closed on top of that. Anyhow, most come with car, and if you drive like 15 mins further, you can get your weed anyhow, so it has no effect whatsoever.
On top of that, having lived in one of these cities, and the other gone to school. Guess twice what happened? Instead of containing the folk to the coffeshops were they did no harm, they are all out on the streets dealing shit now. Whereas I didn't mind going trough certain parts of one city before the closing of the coffeeshops, I wouldn't dare to step a foot alone in there at night any more after they closed it.
So all those places around the coffeeshops became super scummy and criminal, while before it wasn't bad at all. But hey, the EU said it would work, right?
Fucking EU politicians and having no fucking clue how things work on a local level. And this is just one of the many problems the EU isn't solving, but making worse in the Netherlands. They have such a hard on for one united country and culture, while that simply doesn't work. As I said, the above examples involving weed is one of them. We want to decriminalize things, the EU still pretends they know better than the people actually living in the Netherlands. Fuck the EU in its current state.
For example, and one we are famous for. Our weed. We, the peasants, want our coffeeshops to be capable of just buying their weed legally. Instead we have this twisted thing in the law that they still buy it illegal, aka it is still a criminal business. Dutch people are sick and tired of illegal weed growth, because it happens a lot, and I don't have to explain the consequences of such.
In the meantime, the EU is blocking the Dutch to pass laws onto getting growing it legally. We could make so much money on taxes onto it on top if it, not to mention we could control what is stuffed into the weed. Sadly enough it happens there are other drugs thrown into it. Whereas a lot of coffeeshops are very strict about checking the quality, it does happen. And it shouldn't.
But hey, the EU doesn't want it, so our EU sucking up politicians are smothering any law change in its crib. While it should be so much better.
Not to mention the EU demanded us to close the coffeshops in the bordercities with Germany and Belgium. It would reduce drugrunners from other countries coming over they said. It has been a very odd an selective thing as well on which cities shops got closed on top of that. Anyhow, most come with car, and if you drive like 15 mins further, you can get your weed anyhow, so it has no effect whatsoever.
On top of that, having lived in one of these cities, and the other gone to school. Guess twice what happened? Instead of containing the folk to the coffeshops were they did no harm, they are all out on the streets dealing shit now. Whereas I didn't mind going trough certain parts of one city before the closing of the coffeeshops, I wouldn't dare to step a foot alone in there at night any more after they closed it.
So all those places around the coffeeshops became super scummy and criminal, while before it wasn't bad at all. But hey, the EU said it would work, right?
Fucking EU politicians and having no fucking clue how things work on a local level. And this is just one of the many problems the EU isn't solving, but making worse in the Netherlands. They have such a hard on for one united country and culture, while that simply doesn't work. As I said, the above examples involving weed is one of them. We want to decriminalize things, the EU still pretends they know better than the people actually living in the Netherlands. Fuck the EU in its current state.
