In the audio that I listened to I was very amazed at how
many people enjoy smoking marijuana and how legal it is. I thought this audio
was really interesting due to the fact that coffee shops were all about smoking
and relaxing. I had no idea that this was going on in Europe. Another thing
that I found interesting about this was that people would cross the boarder no
problem to go to these smoke shops where smoking was legal. The mayor of
Maastricht was getting a feeling about the people who were crossing the boarder
as people who were lazy, who littered, and who didn’t know how to park so he
wanted to put a change to this problem to try and “better” his town. Even
though the mayor wanted to change how legal marijuana was he wasn’t totally
against it. He made a law that only Dutch people could go into smoke shops but
had to show there passport for identification to prove that they were from
Holland. He also said that they had to sign a document and become a member of
the smoke shop, which people were skeptical about and most of them didn’t do
it. So coffee shops soon went out of business. The different between a coffee
shop and say a cigar bar is one very obvious reason. Cigars are legal;
marijuana is not in the US. But in comparison to both a cigar bar and a coffee
shop is that they both have a massive variety of flavors, size, taste,
etc. in the coffee shops the marijuana
was displayed like a buffet style, but since people stopped coming to the
coffee shops the owner of it started putting the lids on the marijuana so it
wouldn’t go bad because it wasn’t being sold. I found it interesting that
tourists from around Europe would come to Maastricht to get high but now that
the coffee shops are closing there are people like guanga boy who will sell you
weed. And now after the law was passed, people have noticed that the town was a
lot cleaner there was no littering and everyone was driving how they were
suppose to. This was very interesting to me and made me want to discover more
about this.
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