(Published, then removed earlier version of this when i meant to save it as a draft. Apologies for the confusion.)

Yahoo! News – EU Agrees Drugs Law, Dutch ‘Coffee’ Shops Survive

This shows just how much policy is made in Brussels nowadays. This happens to be real bad policy, too (the small posession stuff.) But regardless of that, should this really be decided on the EU level?

Read somewhere else our minister of justice saying in essence the tide has turned, after 90s trend of softer drug laws. I’m sure it’s true w/ all the rightwing tough on crime rheotoric of late, in most of Europe.

So, a great victory for us. Yay.

I’m sure this will strike some of our reders as particulary bad news:

“Donner said his government was considering rules under which coffee shops would only be allowed to sell soft drugs to Dutch residents to meet its obligation to dissuade tourists from going to Amsterdam for drugs.”

Here’s some quite good news though:

“Drug use inside the EU has been stabilizing after years of rising sharply, according to surveys by the EU’s drugs monitoring agency in Lisbon.”
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