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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4290079/Green-Partys-Home-Affairs-spokesman-Ben-Duncan-wants-to-turn-Brighton-into-Europes-pot-smoking-destination.html
Ben Duncan – Home Affairs spokesman for the GREEN Party – said the city could capitalise on a Dutch proposal to ban foreigners from its cannabis cafes.
Brighton’s cafes would be licensed under his plans and the drug legalised.
Cllr Duncan said: “Think of all the millions our shops and hotels would make if all those tourists being turned away from Amsterdam by the Dutch Tories came here to spend their holiday cash instead!
“Of course, in Brighton and Hove, we know only too well the damage that the current drug policy of complete criminalisation of drug use is causing rather than seeing it as a health issue.
"Cannabis use can be harmful, but all analysis shows that it's much less likely to harm you than, say, driving a car, or crossing a road.
“So what about it? Brighton, the liberal, tolerant, tourist capital of Europe?”
A Dutch judge has ruled its proposed ban on foreign tourists is not discriminatory and it is expected to come into force across Holland by the end of the year. Some shop owners claim it will cost them 90 per cent of their trade.
Mr Duncan urged residents to adopt the idea “for the sake of our tourist industry and the health and wellbeing of those living in and visiting our city”.
Thoughts NSC?
Ben Duncan – Home Affairs spokesman for the GREEN Party – said the city could capitalise on a Dutch proposal to ban foreigners from its cannabis cafes.
Brighton’s cafes would be licensed under his plans and the drug legalised.
Cllr Duncan said: “Think of all the millions our shops and hotels would make if all those tourists being turned away from Amsterdam by the Dutch Tories came here to spend their holiday cash instead!
“Of course, in Brighton and Hove, we know only too well the damage that the current drug policy of complete criminalisation of drug use is causing rather than seeing it as a health issue.
"Cannabis use can be harmful, but all analysis shows that it's much less likely to harm you than, say, driving a car, or crossing a road.
“So what about it? Brighton, the liberal, tolerant, tourist capital of Europe?”
A Dutch judge has ruled its proposed ban on foreign tourists is not discriminatory and it is expected to come into force across Holland by the end of the year. Some shop owners claim it will cost them 90 per cent of their trade.
Mr Duncan urged residents to adopt the idea “for the sake of our tourist industry and the health and wellbeing of those living in and visiting our city”.
Thoughts NSC?
