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Last week, it was marmite. Soon, it will be pot-smoking tourists who will be banned from Dutch cannabis shops:
The Dutch government on Friday said it would start banning tourists from buying cannabis from "coffee shops" and impose restrictions on Dutch customers by the end of the year.
The Netherlands is well known for having one of Europe’s most liberal soft drug policies that has made its cannabis shops a popular tourist attraction, particularly in Amsterdam.
Backed by the far-right party of anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders, the coalition government that came into power last year announced plans to curb drug tourism as part of a nationwide program to promote health and fight crime.
"In order to tackle the nuisance and criminality associated with coffee shops and drug trafficking, the open-door policy of coffee shops will end," the Dutch health and justice ministers wrote in a letter to the country’s parliament on Friday.
A new coffee shop in Chicago called The Wormhole is dedicated to 1980s pop culture. The centerpiece of the shop is a DeLorean that the owner modified to look like the time traveling car in the Back to the Future movie franchise. Other displays pay homage to Top Gun, Ghostbusters, and Star Wars.
Link via Geekosystem
When the times get tough, the tough goes … naked? Here’s a story of one Donald Crabtree of Vassalboro, Maine, who combined coffee and nudity for his recipe for success:
On Monday, Donald Crabtree opened Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro, Maine, where the waiters and waitresses serve their customers topless.
In a town with fewer than 4,500 residents, the topless coffee shop is booming with business. Paul Crabtree, the owner’s brother, describes business so far as "fantastic."
"It’s just been crowds mobbing in," he said.
Laurie Segall of CNN has the story: Link (Photo: WGME)
