Dutch pro-pot supporters campaign to change cannabis law

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Source: (AFP)  THE HAGUE — Opponents of a Dutch cannabis law that restricts sales of the drug to foreigners on Saturday launched a campaign aimed at getting citizens to vote for pro-pot parties in elections next month. Organisers said they would travel the nation in an old American school bus, painted silver to convince people to vote for "cannabis friendly parties" in the upcoming parliamentary polls. The campaign would be funded by 140 coffee shops and two wholesale companies selling cannabis paraphernalia, one of the organisers Marc Josemans told AFP from the southern Dutch city of Maastricht where the campaign was launched on Saturday. "Today we started a 'cannabus campaign'," said Josemans, a Maastricht cannabis cafe owner and campaigner against the new law. "It's aimed at trying to convince people to vote in a positive way on September 12." The parties say they would abolish the law if they held political power. The so-called "cannabis card" law came into effect on May 1 and effectively transforms coffee shops into private clubs as it requires around 80 cannabis cafes in the south to sell only to signed-up members who live in the country. Its coverage widens nation-wide to 590 other coffee shops in January 2013, and is aimed at curbing drug tourism-linked disturbances. Left-wing opposition parties -- including the current largest Labour Party (PvdA), the Socialist Party (SP) and the Party for Animals (PvdD) have said they were against the current law. "We will do everything to get the 'cannabis-card' law off the table," Socialist Party MP Harry van Bommel said in a video interview published on the Dutch pro-weed news sitewww.coffeeshopnieuws.nl, adding "this law is part of the problem, not part of the solution." The PvdA in a statement on their website suggested that coffee shops simply be replaced by "cannabis shops", with the sale of marijuana legalised but strictly controlled. Although cannabis is technically illegal in the Netherlands, the country in 1976 decriminalised possession of less than five grammes of the substance under a so-called tolerance policy. Browse Our Huge Free Marijuana eBook Section Most eBooks are in PDF format Adverse Effects of Marijuana  Albuquerque HL - Indoor Cannabis Garden Guide  Basic Soil Grow Guide  Beginner Guide to Growing Grass  Big Book of Buds Biology of Marijuana - From Gene to Behavior  Book of Grass - An Anthology on Indian Hemp  Bulldog Cafe - Plant Abuse  Bulldog Cafe - Planting Seeds  Cannabis - Strain base  Cannabinoids as Therapeutics  Cannabinoids - Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology  Cannabis - Marijuana & Hashish  Cannabis - The Truth is Out  Cannabis Use and Cognitive Decline  Closet Growing - The Easy Way  CO2 - Temperature and Humidity  Curing Marijuana  Dopequest - Cannabis Growing Guide  Dr Chronics Seed Selector  Drug Testing FAQ  Endocannabinoids - The Brain and Bodies Marijuana and Beyond  For the Everyday Closet Farmer  George Mayfield - Green Harvest  Greg Green - The Cannabis Grow Bible  Grow Guide - Pruning and Training  High Culture - Marijuana in the Lives of Americans  How to be a Pot Star Like Me - Chris Eudalay  How To Grow Marijuana Hydroponically  How to Grow Medicinal Marijuana - Todd McCormick  How To - Hydroponics - Keith Roberto  Hydroponics - The Basics  Hydroponic Suppliers Worldwide  Indoor Cannabis Cultivation Guide Version 1.0  Indoor Cannabis Cultivation Guide Version 1.2  Jack Herer - The Emperor Wears No Clothes  Joys of a Herb Garden at Home  Life Magazine Article (1969)  Mahmoud A. ElSohly - Marijuana and the Cannabinoids  Marijuana and Medicine  Marijuana and the Bible  Marijuana Exposure in Animals  Marijuana Garden Saver [2005]  Marijuana Growers Handbook  Marijuana Myths  Marijuana Myths Marijuana Facts  Marijuana Recipes  Marijuana Strains Description  Mellow Grow - Herb Garden  On Being Stoned - Psychological Study of Marijuana Intoxication  Oregon Medical Marijuana Guide [2001]  Overgrow Information Collection v1.0b  Oxyplus Usage Table  pH Meter and CF Meter  Pipe Dreams Hydroponic System Manual  Positions of Religious Groups that Support Medical Marijuana  Pot Puzzle Fun Book  Proper Meditative Use of Marijuana  Pruning Marijuana  Pruning Tips for Marijuana Plants  Quick Hydroponic Garden Set Up  Robert C Clarke - Marijuana Botany - An Advanced Study  Rockwool - The Book  Sexing Cannabis Seeds  Silica Additive  Smokeless Marijuana  Strain Origins  Talking with your Kids about Marijuana  THC Extraction  THC Marijuana Potency  The Art And Science Of Cooking With Cannabis

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