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Coffee shops on the border?
Fri 29/12/06 - The Mayor of the Dutch town of Terneuzen Jan Lonink
(social-democrat) wants the town's two so-called "coffee shops" to be
moved to a site away from the town centre and close to the Belgian
border.
Dutch Coffee shops are caf=E9s where customers can purchase soft drugs
such as cannabis.
During the summer months as many as 3,000 French and Belgian users of
soft drugs descend on Terneuzen to stock up on weed and cannabis resin
every day.
(VRT)
This can sometimes cause problems in Terneuzen's picturesque town
centre.
Extra police have to be deployed to cope with the influx of drug
tourists.
Hence the Mayor's wish to move the coffee shops from the centre of the
town to a site near to the border with Belgium.
However, the Provincial Governor of East Flanders Andr=E9 Denys
(Liberal) recently let it be known that Belgium is opposed to the
opening of any coffee shops close to the border.
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