In Holland, you get fined for smoking tobacco, not cannabis
Last July, Holland introduced a law that banned smoking in public. Cannabis smokers and tourists who go there to get a feel for the culture were devastated. But those laws aren’t always followed, at least not with marijuana.
A 27 year old man, who happens to own a cannabis coffee shop in Holland, was fined by police recently for smoking a cigarette in his coffee shop. The police officers explained, ‘The man was not fined for smoking a cannabis joint, but for smoking tobacco. You can smoke cannabis but not tobacco in coffee shops’. How’s that for ‘crazy backward liberal laws’?
The man was caught lighting a hand rolled cannabis joint during a routine police check and fined because officers found tobacco mixed with the soft drug. Had the joint contained 100% marijuana, he would not have been fined and everything would have been okay.
The man is expected to fight the case in court, but since there is a legal ban on smoking tobacco in public, he probably won’t win. I guess it’s different looking in from the outside, but I would be fine and dandy being allowed to smoke weed in public, in return for not smoking cigarettes in public. It kind of seems like a no-brainer to me.
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