{"id":853,"date":"2008-04-01T07:40:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T07:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-guide-to-amsterdam\/amsterdam-coffeeshops\/dutch-smoking-ban-pure-cannabis-joints-ok\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T07:40:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T07:40:24","slug":"dutch-smoking-ban-pure-cannabis-joints-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-guide-to-amsterdam\/amsterdam-coffeeshops\/dutch-smoking-ban-pure-cannabis-joints-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Smoking Ban &#8211; Pure Cannabis Joints OK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"storyby\">This is GREAT NEWS for cannabis users in Holland (and tourists of course!). Now maybe the Dutch will STOP mixing their marijuana with tobacco in their joints! It&#8217;s very unhealthy and addictive to smoke tobacco!<\/p>\n<p> By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cannabis will be exempt from a Dutch smoking ban that comes into force in two months.<\/p>\n<p>Restrictions on smokers in cafes and restaurants will not apply as long as cannabis is consumed neat, without tobacco. The exemption follows fears that many of Amsterdam&#8217;s lucrative &#8220;coffee shops&#8221; would be forced to close if soft drug users had to smoke elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Dutch policies, introduced in 1972, on the sale and use of cannabis have generated a trade valued at more than \u00a33 billion a year.<\/p>\n<div>The coffee shops, which draw millions of tourists each year, allow users to buy cannabis over the counter and smoke it without fear of arrest.<\/div>\n<p> Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/03\/28\/wsmoke128.xml\" target=\"_self\">Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is GREAT NEWS for cannabis users in Holland (and tourists of course!). Now maybe the Dutch will STOP mixing their marijuana with tobacco in their joints! It&#8217;s very unhealthy and addictive to smoke tobacco! By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-guide-to-amsterdam\/amsterdam-coffeeshops\/dutch-smoking-ban-pure-cannabis-joints-ok\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}