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Trial Begins for Dutch Cannabis Coffee Shop Owners

June 12th

MAASTRICHT, NETHERLANDS —  The trial of the owners and staff of three cannabis cafes in the southern Netherlands city of Maastricht began Wednesday, charged with selling marijuana to foreigners in a case both sides of a heated debate in this border city hope will clarify the legality of a clampdown on the city’s coffee shops.

Maastricht is using new national legislation banning coffee shops from selling cannabis and marijuana to people who don’t live in the Netherlands as a way of clamping down on what the local mayor says was a nuisance caused by hundreds of thousands of drug tourists driving into the picturesque heart of the city to stock up on weed.

The cafe owners and staff being prosecuted were arrested last month after serving foreign customers as a way of testing the legality of the new rules. A second group of owners is due in court later this month and verdicts are expected in mid-July.

Prosecutors asked judges to fine the seven suspects up to 5,000 euros (more than $6,500) and give them community service orders and short suspended prison sentences.

In an interview Tuesday in his ornate office in Maastricht’s old City Hall, Mayor Onno Hoes defended the crackdown on coffee shops as an effective way of reining in proble. . . . . READ MORE

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